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Authors: Lisa Shannon
A Thousand Sisters (38 page)
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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
Ttantalum;
See
coltan mining
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
UUganda
UNICEF
United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR): Kaniola visit; military conflicts; Pakistani Army; presence in Congo; refugee camps
United Nations peacekeeping forces
VVikram, Major
Voss, Susan
WWalker, 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
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)
ZZaire
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 . . .
this book down, check your email, make dinner plans, or remember there was one more thing you meant to do . . .
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 andâta-da!âyou 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
)
www.runforcongowomen.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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
http://athousandsisters.com
)
10. Dream up something new, like I did.
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A THOUSAND SISTERS
My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman
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Copyright © 2010 by Lisa J. ShannonÂ
Page 225. Komunyakaa, Yusef. © 1998
“You and I Are Disappearing,” from
Dien Cai Dau.
Reprinted with permission by Wesleyan University Press.
“You and I Are Disappearing,” from
Dien Cai Dau.
Reprinted with permission by Wesleyan University Press.
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Published by
Seal Press
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
1700 Fourth Street
Berkeley, California
Seal Press
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
1700 Fourth Street
Berkeley, California
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Shannon, Lisa, 1975-
A thousand sisters : my journey of hope into the worst place on earth to be a woman / by Lisa Shannon.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-580-05346-4
1. Shannon, Lisa, 1975- 2. Women and warâCongo (Democratic Republic) 3. Women refugeesâCongo (Democratic Republic) 4. War victimsâCongo (Democratic Republic) 5. Civil warâCongo (Democratic Republic) 6. Humanitarian assistance, AmericanâCongo (Democratic Republic) I.
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