A Good Day in Goma

Lyn Lusi, one of the founders of HEAL Africa, shares an account of the events of one day at the hospital in Goma.

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Ursula's Story

“Ursula” (not her real name) came to the HEAL Africa hospital three years ago through a counselor in her village who knew about her condition.

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Asifiwe's Story

HEAL Africa has a ward of children who are getting surgery for a wide variety of conditions: rickets, polio, clubfoot, cleft palate. Here's the true story of one of them.

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Ngalula's Story

Ngalula came to Goma by boat from Bukavu. She'd walked weeks through the forest to get to Bukavu. She didn't even know where she had come from. She was dressed in clothes given to her by some woman in the first village she'd come to after escaping the men who had held her captive for years. She had seen her entire family killed before her eyes, and she was taken as a slave. When she escaped she was pregnant.

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Charité's Story

Charité was raped in front of her family, then she was forced to watch as her family was being killed. The rapists then destroyed her eyes so she wouldn't recognize them. When she came to HEAL Africa, her eyes were badly infected; one had to be removed. The other is blind. Her general condition...

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