Follow Up - Femicide in Congo, Eve Ensler & What We Can Do about It

Last Saturday, I blogged about a story I heard on Weekend Edition Saturday. Something painful to merely hear over the radio, so I can't imagine what it is like to live it.

I wasn't alone in wanting to know what I can do to help bring attention to these attrocities in an effort to end them

Please go to:

http://newsite.vday.org/drcongo



On a sweeter note, one of the things you can do to help is buy a purse. I'm down. I think I'll get this one, in blue. I'm on a "Blue Purse" kick.

http://www.healingartsafrica.com/c6.php

Report: Rape in the Congo

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.