Wangeve (Rutshuru)

Jean Tsongo - 14 years old

Jean Tsongo - 14 years old

A kid is born in a banana plantation.

A kid born in a banana plantation, is named « Serukoti ».
Jean introduces us a Congolese child born in a banana plantation, yet he should be granted with the same rights as rich people.

 

Barore - 13 years old

Barore - 13 years old

The right for education.

The girl goes to work in the fields and her brother goes to school.
Girls don’t have access to education. Parents only send their boys to school. A sad reality that violates women rights.

 

Mumbere Thierry - 15 years old

Mumbere Thierry - 15 years old

Guns make the law.

Thierry is showing us a situation where armed men make their law in our country.
 

 

Aime Kavira - 15 years old

Aime Kavira - 15 years old

Sexual Slavery.

The girl is taken to the forest by the Interhamwes (Rwandese rebels) to be used as a sexual slave.
 

 

Chuma Mushagalusha - 15 years old

Chuma Mushagalusha - 15 years old

Article 3: We all have the right to live, the right to be free and the right to be safe.

Robbery in a village.
Armed men are stealing the villages, taking the goats and the food, and are killing the people. People are being slaughtered.
 

 

Turatsimze - 14 years old

Turatsimze - 14 years old

Article 10: We all have the right for a trial in an independent and impartial court.

Popular court.
Armed thieves are burnt by the population making its own justice.
 

 

Kisimiya Patient - 14 years old

Kisimiya Patient - 14 years old

Article 1: We are all born equal.

Child birth in a banana plantation.
No maternity: in the village, a woman giving birth in a banana plantation.

 

 

Mumbere Thierry - 15 years old

Article 2: We all have the same rights.

Women, men, rich people, poor people… we all have the same rights.
 

 

Amani Kisoni - 12 years old

Amani Kisoni - 12 years old

Artcile 5: Torture is forbidden.

Amani is showing us a case of torture, which is still going on in our country. A man beaten like pods of beans.

 

Muke Bineguro - 13 years old

Muke Bineguro - 13 years old

Article 26: The right for Education.

A village with no school. Kids sit by the fireplace all day long during the rainy season.
 

 

Muhindo Jeannot - 13 years old

Article 23: The right to work and to have a salary.

Congolese are working hard but they only receive a small salary for it.

 

 

Jamaa Sendegeya - 14 years old

Jamaa Sendegeya - 14 years old

Article 3: they all have the right to live.

The armed man, a interahamwe, says: “if you don’t have enough money, I’ll kill you”.
That’s the hard reality of Rutshuru, in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.