kara
04-06-2010, 08:28 AM
A Thousand Sisters
*The story of an American woman who felt compelled to support the rape survivors of the DRC so started an organization that has raised millions and helped countless women*
I had a great life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and
security. But in the wake of my Dad’s death, and soon-to-be thirty
years old, I found myself depressed, camped out in my living room
watching Oprah. It was there that I learned about Congo, widely called
the worst place on earth to be a woman. Awakened to the atrocities –
millions dead, women being raped and tortured, children starving and
dying in shocking numbers –I had to do something.
A Thousand Sisters chronicles how I raised sponsorships for Congolese
women, beginning with a solo 30-mile run, and then founded Run for
Congo Women. Despite countless warnings, with no credentials, I
abandon my quickly collapsing home life and plunge into an unlikely
lone journey through eastern Congo on a mission to ignite a movement
for the world’s most forgotten women, to meet hundreds of my sponsored
“sisters,” and hear their stories firsthand. But in a place where no
man with a gun is the good guy, I confront militias, massacres, murder
cover-ups, and unspeakable horror. Along the way I am forced to learn
lessons of survival, fear, gratitude, and love from the women of
Congo. A Thousand Sisters is a portrait of the world’s deadliest war
through the intimate lens of friendship. It is a story of passion,
hope, and my journey to carve out human bonds that cannot be touched
by terror.
http://athousandsisters.com/ book/ (http://athousandsisters.com/ book/)
*The story of an American woman who felt compelled to support the rape survivors of the DRC so started an organization that has raised millions and helped countless women*
I had a great life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and
security. But in the wake of my Dad’s death, and soon-to-be thirty
years old, I found myself depressed, camped out in my living room
watching Oprah. It was there that I learned about Congo, widely called
the worst place on earth to be a woman. Awakened to the atrocities –
millions dead, women being raped and tortured, children starving and
dying in shocking numbers –I had to do something.
A Thousand Sisters chronicles how I raised sponsorships for Congolese
women, beginning with a solo 30-mile run, and then founded Run for
Congo Women. Despite countless warnings, with no credentials, I
abandon my quickly collapsing home life and plunge into an unlikely
lone journey through eastern Congo on a mission to ignite a movement
for the world’s most forgotten women, to meet hundreds of my sponsored
“sisters,” and hear their stories firsthand. But in a place where no
man with a gun is the good guy, I confront militias, massacres, murder
cover-ups, and unspeakable horror. Along the way I am forced to learn
lessons of survival, fear, gratitude, and love from the women of
Congo. A Thousand Sisters is a portrait of the world’s deadliest war
through the intimate lens of friendship. It is a story of passion,
hope, and my journey to carve out human bonds that cannot be touched
by terror.
http://athousandsisters.com/ book/ (http://athousandsisters.com/ book/)