Project Kadutu begins today and aims to tell the story of 24 sexually abused women trying to regain the normal course of their lives. Our objective is to help them become economically independant. To do so, they will have to start from something as simple as reading and writting. Therefore we will be working on two different programs:  1. Intensive three months alphabetization course and 2. Fuel briquette making production.

The later will be tested for the first time in DRC, although it has proven positive results in other parts of the developing world. It will generate a steady income to the women while helping preserve the endangered forests and its massive charcoal consumption. 

A view of Kadutu and lake Kivu at the back

The roads in Kadutu on a rainy day  

Kadutu is a very poor and overpopulated neighbourhood in Bukavu, south of lake Kivu. Thousands of women have been raped during the violence in Kivu provinces during the last seven years. Throughout the years of fighting, more than two million people have been internally displaced. Sixteen million people are suffering from a critical food shortage and thousands have already died from a lack of food, clean water, medicine and shelter. Women are sexually abused so incessantly and so brutally that many are left with deep physical and mental scars and the perpetrators are not only armed men, but also male civilians.

Project Kadutu is the story about some of these women rebulding their lives after what they have endured.

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