Building links with Congo YM - preview
Two British Friends have seen first-hand the efforts Congolese Quakers are making to build peace in their war-torn country
Friends in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which emerged five years ago from a war that claimed an estimated three million lives, have set up a hospital and a tree nursery and are currently building peace and trauma centres to care for their fellow citizens
Hazel Shellens, Cambridgeshire AM, and Martin Gilbraith, Manchester AM, travelled to DRC as the first step in a possible twinning arrangement between Cambridge and Manchester Friends and Congolese Quakers
Oliver Robertson
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