It has been an extraordinary experience, after these past few years working in the abstract, to have finally been in Congo, on the ground, seeing in person the amazing people and community-based relief and development projects supported by Jewish World Watch. But I am also struggling to process the stories of unimaginable violence and…
Surprisingly, this has been a journey filled with hope and inspiration. I had expected to feel more despair here, surrounded as we are by one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in the world. This week we spoke with Dr. Namagabe, who works to demobilize and rehabilitate former child soldiers as the director of…
We started our day with Dr. Mukwege at Panzi Hospital. Dr. Mukwege is an angel on earth, and a hero to thousands of women here in Congo whom he has helped with life-saving fistula repair surgery. He is one of JWW’s most treasured partners on the ground, and JWW is currently helping to fund the…
JWW Board Member Vaughan Meyer is traveling with four other JWW delegates in Congo’s eastern provinces. They will work with survivors of the country’s decades-long conflict, which has claimed nearly six millions lives. And, they will meet with JWW’s partners on the ground, with whom JWW works to create innovative programs and projects that change…
My attention is pulled in so many directions every day — to my husband and children, to my ailing mother, to Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Gaza, to the homeless in Los Angeles, and to many more local and national issues, but it always comes back to Sudan and Congo, and to the work we…