Tumaini (Goma)
Mumbere Bahati - 12 years old
Article 9: Jailed or in exile for no legal reason.
Bahati is
showing us a person jailed in an underground cell. This whole is used as
prison so as prisoners never get to the justice. This unfair act often
takes place in the military camps of former rebels in East Congo.
Muhindo Cavalier - 14 years old
Article 17: The right to possess.
Muhindo is representing farmers expelled from their fields by armed stockbreeders. Rich stockbreeders steal the lands of the poor farmers.
Isabelle Kahimbo - 11 years old
Dany Kakule - 6 years old
In a
justice court, the rich man is always right against the poor, and the
white man against the black. (The idea represented might well be the
teacher’s one, and not the child’s one).
Ygal Kakule - 14 years old
Article 26 : The right for education.
Kakule shows us
a little schoolgirl walking out of her village to go to school.
All the villages must promote education for the girls.
Emanuel Kambale - 13 years old
Article 5: Torture is forbidden.
Emanuel is
showing in his presentation a case of torture. A man is beating the feet
of hanged people.
Fabrice Kambale - 14 years old
Article 27: The right to create and to appreciate artistic creation.
Fabrice is featuring a crying man sitting on a tree. His misery: an unknown man has cut all his trees. Friend of the forest, the man is crying.
Eusebe Kasereka - 10 years old
Jonathan Kasereka - 13 years old
Article 3: The right to live. Water is life.
Rina Kasereka - 15 years old
Article 15: The right to have a nationality and an identity.
Rina is showing
us a Congolese happy to have the Congolese nationality. Yet this right
has brought a lot of blood in the country.
Thierry Kasereka-Sokoni - 16 years old
Ziza Katembo - 9 years old
Article 11 :
The right to have a lawyer and to be innocent until guilt is proved by
the court.
Ziza is showing us Goma main jail (Munzenze). The prisoners’ rights are
not respected there: hunger, promiscuity, unhealthy rooms, no trials,
illegal detention.
Efrazi Kavira - 10 years old
Article 21: The right for free elections.
Kavira is putting
himself in the body of an illiterate voter who doesn’t know who to vote
for among all the candidates in his village.
Esta Kavira - 11 years old
Talita Kavira - 12 years old
Gloire Matokeo Leoki - 14 years old
Alain Manegabe - 17 years old
Article 3 : The right to live.
A young girls is accused of being a witch and is killed with stones by the population of Goma. Alain who saw this scene of violence, says this girl has the right to live.
Mathieu Matembera - 15 years old
Julles Mathumo - 16 years old
Article 16 : The right to choose one’s husband or one’s wife.
Forced wedding after kidnapping is authorized by a local tradition. This act is against human rights but it’s still authorized nowadays.
Jules is representing a forced
wedding, called « Guterura ». The men kidnap the girl who has to become
one of them wife’s.
Gloire Matoleo - 12 years old
Article 3: water is life.
The right to live while there is no water in Goma and its surroundings.
Muhindo Mbale - 13 years old
Article 27: The
right to create and to appreciate artistic creation.
The trees are the wealth of our country.
Muhindo is presenting a child who likes the creation. The trees are
beauty of nature, and are also a wealth for humanity.
Jose Mbusa - 7 years old
Article 3: the right to live.
Jose is representing a crowd asking for water: maji, maji, maji.
Someone offers him a drop of water. All of them want it.
Innocent Murulo - 11 years old
Vania Mutundo - 5 years old
Thierry Sokoni - 15 years old
Article 17: The right to possess a land.
Small farmers expelled from
their land by rich men.
Thierry is representing a scene of small farmers being expelled from
their land by stockbreeders. They expel the small farmers to convert the
fields in pastures for their herd. The village is being abandoned,
farmers are exposed to the bad weather, and the cattle live in the
abandoned village.
Kavira Talita - 12 years old
Article 14: The right to ask for asylum.
A caravan of
moved people.
Talita is showing a caravan of people escaping from the war and asking
for asylum in other countries. Some of them die on the way.
Mutundo Vania - 5 years old
Article 2: The Earth, our patrimony.
Vania is
showing us a planet that would belong to humanity without making
distinction between races. The armed conflicts in our country are going
against the application of this right.
Thierry - 15 years old
Alain - 17 years old
Article 20: The right for association.
Association of
woman selling the local drink : « mandale ».
Thierry and Alain are showing a mother selling “mandale », the local
drink. She’s a member of a local association of woman selling this
alcoholised drink. Getting together, a way of coming out poverty.