Radio Doc Airs on DTJ Program in Congo
“Under the Mango Tree” a radio documentary that highlights DTJ’s psychosocial program in Kiliwa, DRC in collaboration with Queens University, Belfast aired today throughout Ireland on RTE.ie Radio 1 platformed through their Documentary on One series. The documentary is personal and brings a patient voice to the conversation around children affected by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s [...]
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Contacts: Lindsay Branham Jocelyn Kelly Program Director Director, Women in War Program 202.368.2921 +243.990.92.9255 Lindsay@dtj.org Jkelly@hsph.harvard.edu Community Suffering Unceasing in LRA-affected areas; International Response Remains Insufficient New Study Reveals Exhaustive Impacts of Violence WASHINGTON – LRA – affected communities cite unending effects of LRA violence, detailing the struggle to [...]
New Report by DTJ and HHI Documents Impact of LRA Violence
In January, DTJ’s Lindsay Branham and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Jocelyn Kelly traveled to northeastern DRC to systematically document the impact of the Lord’s Resistance Army. They guest blogged for the NYT here. Today DTJ and HHI are releasing the findings from their research in a report titled, “We Suffer From War and More War”: [...]
Safe Places
The heat sears and beats itself against us as we sit on hand made wooden benches during a regular afternoon in a village outside of Dungu. A steady drum beat of dull warmth. I slip in and out of a soaked awareness of where I am, what I am seeing, what the stakes are. Since [...]
First Mobile Cinema Screening
Their faces were washed with wonder. The 12 foot inflatable screen dwarfed the doorway of the catholic church we were meeting in, the only formal structure in the community. 40 children and 40 parents sat patiently on wooden benches near the floor and stared expectantly at the foreign creation that had erected itself in their [...]
LRA’s Madness
A few days ago I was caught in a thunderstorm by the river. The lightning cracked over the Uele river and the rain came down hard. They say it was the first big rain, ushering in the saison de pluit (rainy season). After months of dust and dry earth, it is welcomed. But in the [...]
Report from Dungu
DTJ‘s Lindsay Branham reports from Dungu that there was a rush of activity tonight in Dungu, DR Congo as a people fled across a the bridge spanning the Dungu River with their possessions. As they ran, people were saying they were fleeing from the LRA. Many Congolese are reportedly seeking refuge at the MONUC base. [...]
Mobile Cinema Begins
Tomorrow we land in Dungu and begin the Mobile Cinema Program. I am expectant. It’s an honor to enter a space and place your hands towards change. And yet I do not over-inflate the change we can make in a place that has sustained such consistent pain. This is one small attempt in one small [...]
Investigating the Impact of the LRA
DTJ‘s Lindsay Branham and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Jocelyn Kelly have returned from their research assessment in NE DRC investigating the effects of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) on communities in the Haut Uele region of DRC. The LRA continues to wreak havoc on communities in northern DRC, South Sudan and eastern CAR, abducting children for [...]
Director of Harvard’s Women in War Program Travels to Dungu with DTJ to Examine LRA Impact
Director of Women in War Program Travels to Dungu to Examine LRA Impact Last month, Jocelyn Kelly, MS, Director of HHI’s Women in War program, traveled to northeastern DRC with a colleague from Discover the Journey to investigate the effects of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) on communities in the Dungu region. The LRA has largely moved from [...]
Preventing HIV in DRC
▶ Today is World AIDS Day. And yet this disease that has claimed the lives of millions can be prevented. In March DTJ travelled to DRC to document the work of Global Strategies, an organization working to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child through their partner organization, Heal Africa. DTJ witnessed mothers [...]
#DRC2011
Today over 32 million registered voters make their second truly democratic choice in 50 years. Congo’s elections matter. Our Congolese friend and partner Francois told us that “If you want peace, give peace.” Hope for peace in Congo. #DRC2011 // Photograph taken in Goma, DRC Tweet
Communiqué [Apr]
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DTJ has been working on something really new and different that we believe will contribute directly to the prevention of the use of children in armed conflict in DR Congo. This program will coincide with the release of DTJ’s forthcoming documentary that has been 4 years in the making, telling the story of a friendship [...]
Let us Be Free
The LRA crisis is on the forefront this week as our friends at Invisible Children and Resolve are pushing for financial backing to the bill that Obama already signed to help bring this war to an end. This Monday, April 25, Invisible Children is holding the 25 Event, where you can participate in 25 hours [...]
Communiqué [Mar]
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DTJ went to eastern DR Congo in March to film the work of Global Strategies and their prevention of HIV through Heal Africa and to continue rehabilitation and reintegration work with former child soldiers in DTJs program. DTJ also had the privilege of holding preliminary conversations developing a new DTJ initiative in DRC. Below are [...]
Returning
Tomorrow the DTJ team returns to DRC. We will be filming the work of Global Strategies and then staying longer to check on our small child soldier rehabilitation project and lay the ground work for an exciting new initiative. // Photograph taken in Goma, DRC by Lindsay Branham Tweet
The Child Soldier Crisis
Child Soldiers There are more than ever. And the urgency for intervention, action, RE-action to this growing and unending phenomenon demands our world’s response. While in Congo, finishing production on our documentary following the lives of two child soldiers, I was appalled to discover that for children like them, there is really nothing for them [...]
PAIX SHIRTS En Route to Congo via DXB
PAIX shirts arrive in the Congo on July 16, 2009. To learn more about the PAIX shirt and help now visit www.DiscoverTheJourney.org/PAIX Tweet
Commentary: War is stealing Congo’s young
Slideshow on CNN.com Read the Article Written by Lindsay on CNN.com Tweet
DTJ Writer and Photographer on CNN
Lindsay Branham was recently on CNN advocating for the situation in the Congo. Lindsay works full time for Food for the Hungry and is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda. Please check out FH Global online to learn of Food For the Hungry’s work in Africa. Lindsay is also a freelance writer and photographer for DTJ [...]
Urgent Congo Update
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Mine
We gathered in an oversized room to discuss an under prioritized crisis. Crisis because the abduction of children into armed groups and if they escape the life of destitution awaiting them, is a crisis nearly unparalleled anywhere in the world. Under prioritized because, frankly, no one cares and very little is being done about it. [...]
Whispers
Whispers of hope have settled into words. The rain fallen has not yet dried. A sad maturity marked her face. Her provocative black, lacy clothing clung loosely to her constantly thinning frame. Her deep sultry voice and swanky gait, as she threw her hips around, reminded me of a little girl playing dress up. But [...]