I'm doing a 180 from the last couple of posts and bringing up some excruciatingly serious and difficult to hear, and comprehend, news.
I was listening to Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon. He interviewed Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues". Her new mission is to call attention to the devasting atrocities beign committed in the Congo, where rape is used as a weapon of warfare. Soldiers will take over a village. One known to have HIV will rape all the women in the village to infect them. Wives are raped in front of their husbands. Women are shot in their vaginas or rectums. I am not kidding. This is a real, horrid thing that is happening.
Full story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99838343
As soon as I know of concrete ways you can act to help these women and the hospital that serves them, I will post it here.
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