Congolese Quaker partnership - preview
An Africa-Britain joint venture
When Martin Gilbraith and Hazel Shellens visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo almost a year ago, they had little idea how the link between their two Area Meetings and Evangelical Quakers there would develop A Congolese Quaker, Mkoko Boseka, had first asked British Quakers for help during a UK visit in August 2007 and they had responded with small amounts of money for a peace centre Now was the time to visit and see things at first-hand
Our Congolese Friends live in South Kivu, just south of the recent fierce fighting around Goma in North Kivu There are no direct flights to South Kivu: instead you fly to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, queue for a time at the border crossing, then drive alongside Lake Tanganyika to the regional capital Uvira, where the peace centre has been established Abeka, where several more Quaker projects are based, is another twenty-five miles south along the lakeside on dirt roads
Hannah Morrow
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