In commemoration of the International Day of Peace and to mark the successful completion of Friendly Water for the World’s first project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the university’s Center for Peace and Justice is honored to host Zawadi Nikuze on campus today (Friday). She will take part in a talk-back session at 1 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room, then speak in a Women & the Bible class in Hoover 103 from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m.
The campus community is invited to both events as Zawadi speaks about her work and the condition of women in the midst of the conflict in the DRC.
Zawadi is a women’s and human rights activist working in Goma in the Eastern Province of North Kivu, DRC. As coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative (GLI) /Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC) project in the DRC, for the past six years she has been working with rape survivors and their children on trauma healing and small micro-economic programs. She has been forced to flee on several occasions, only to courageously return. Zawadi is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Questions? Contact Clint Baldwin at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu.