Dear Vagina Warriors : When things are overwhelming It gladdens my heart to think of the part we have had in this since it began. Oh...the places our work goes. On 20 November, Our City of Joy graduated its sixth class of 90 girls and women, bringing the total number of City of Joy has graduated to 492. This is from our Director Christine Schuler Deschryver Furaha Mapendo, one of the residents (her name means joy and love), came from Panzi Hospital and from a psychiatric center. We hesitated to shelter her at the very beginning of her healing process because the form of violence she survived was extremely heartbreaking. I decided to follow her at a given time during her healing process at City of Joy. Her radical change during the time we could share gave me hope and strength to keep helping her. When she came to say bye to me the day of her graduation, we both sobbed. She steadily whispered to me and said “Mama Christine, I promise REVOLUTION Love is the most precious and contagious thing we see in the life of every person who lives and works at City of Joy. It is that thing and secret which triggers change at City of Joy.”
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:45:28 +0000
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