Esperance - Women for Women (sitios de interés)
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var49_Title: Esperancevar50_Subtitle: Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/DRC-pg-67-Esperance.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Sylvia Plachy
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: Esperance was abducted at 17 by soldiers. "We worked hard," she recalls. "If you were working, you got some rest. If you were not working, you were being raped." She escaped several months later, pregnant and critically ill. Some villagers found her and took her to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu. She is shown here with her son Daniel. Like many rape victims, she loves the child she knows is an innocent victim. Yet his face is a constant reminder of the soldier who enslaved her. With facial features different from her own background, Daniel, like many other children born to raped mothers during this war, is treated like an outcast by many in her community.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
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