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Philips, Patty

photography business

Polgreen, Lydia

Prathiba

Pygmy village visit

R

Rahema

Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD)

Rasta

real estate shopping trip

Red Cross

refugee camps

refugee children

René

return visit

Ricki

Rumi

Run for Congo Women events

Runner’s World

running events

Rwanda: background information; military conflicts

S

Salbi, Zainab

salt

Samson, Trevor

Save the Children

Second Annual Portland Run for Congo Women

Serge

sexual violence: gang rape; Mai Mai

Sifa

sister visits

South Kivu Province

speaking engagements

speech to rape victims

sponsorship program

stock photography

Sumana

T

tantalum; See coltan mining

tax collection operations

Ted: birthday trip; breakup of relationship; business partnership; family visits; flashlights; long distance call

Therese

Thomas, Kelly: Baraka trip; Congo visit; grassroots activism; Panzi Hospital visit; post-Congo activities; sister visits

Trail of Tears

traumatic fistula

tropical forests

Tutsis

Twa

U

Uganda

UNICEF

United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR): Kaniola visit; military conflicts; Pakistani Army; presence in Congo; refugee camps

United Nations peacekeeping forces

V

Vikram, Major

Voss, Susan

W

Walker, Alice

Walungu, Congo

Wandolyn

War Child

Washington D. C. visit

“When We Stood Close” (Munch)

Wildwood Trail run

Winfrey, Oprah

witchcraft

Women for Women; See also Christine: Baraka; country directors; enrollment process; headquarters visit; Run for Congo Women events; sister visits; sponsorship program; Walungu visit

worst wedding day

Wyden, Ron

Y

“You and I Are Disappearing” (Komunyakaa)

Z

Zaire

Zanzibar visit

Zimbabwe

FIND YOUR OWN FURAHA

WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR CONGO RIGHT NOW

BEFORE YOU PUT this book down, check your email, make dinner plans, or remember there was one more thing you meant to do . . .

1. Sponsor your own Congolese sister. (3 minutes, $27 per month, www.womenforwomen.org)

2. Run (or walk or bike or swim or whatever) for Congo Women. Ask 12 friends to join you on a short run, each of you pitch in $30 and—ta-da!—you have enough to sponsor and change a woman’s life. Or dedicate a solo run to women in the Congo. Or register for a Run for Congo Women near you. (1 hour-6 months, starting at $30, www.runforcongowomen.org)

3. Join the Raise Hope for Congo Campaign. (1 minute, www.raisehopeforcongo.org)

4. Share this book with friends. Start a book club. (1 hour to organize, 2 to discuss)

5. Purchase a copy of Lisa F. Jackson’s film The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. Host a screening in your home, then ask your guests to sponsor a woman in Congo. (2 minutes to order the film, plus 2 half-days to plan and host the gathering, $29.95, www.wmm.com)

6. Protect Congo’s forests. Offset your carbon footprint through Eric’s North American partners Zerofootprint. (1 minute to calculate your footprint, 2 minutes to pay online to offset that footprint, www.zerofootprint.net)

7. Urge President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to craft and implement an intelligent, comprehensive, diplomatic strategy to permanently deal with the Interahamwe, a.k.a. the FDLR. (2 minutes, www.whitehouse.gov/contact)

8. Friend me on Facebook. I post the latest news from Congo daily. (2 minutes)

9. Visit my website, which contains links to all of groups and organizations mentioned above. (1 minute, http://athousandsisters.com)

10. Dream up something new, like I did.

SELECTED TITLES FROM SEAL PRESS

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HOMELANDS: WOMEN’S JOURNEYS ACROSS RACE, PLACE, AND TIME, edited by Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera. $16.95, 978-1-58005-188-0. An insightful and thoughtful collection of essays on what “homeland” means for women in search of a deeper connection to their cultural pasts.

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