Support the reduction of abortion stigma Goma DRC

She feared losing her life that is why she carried the pregnancy after rape by Mobondo Militia Group.

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Our meeting with Anita in IDP setting in Maluku-Kinshasa on April 22^nd 2026 when we offered them food and support to her Twins.

“ I still remember, it was a Sunday at night at around 2am, as I was deeply sleeping I had my parents shouting, at first I thought it was dream but the noise continued, I woke up and as I wanted to leave my room armed people grabbed and as I fell down they started raping me to the point I lost conscience and for a while I did not know what happened. When I woke up as I gain some energy in the morning, I found dead bodies of my parents and the whole village was empty because most of the people ran away. I was the only left in the entire village wondering what to do, then around 9am I decided to leave the house and took the direction towards another village, where I got some people who came back to pick their things and that is how we moved together up to this camp.

Now, on the way I had so much pain, and I could not get where to get treatment, so I was only suing cold water early in the morning. So when I reached here in Maluku still I did not have where to go for treatment that is how I started using harbor medicine.

I did not know that I was pregnant, you are the first one to inform me what to in case of rape, but when I discovered the pregnancy I felt too bad, imagine these twins here who are the result of rape and I do not know their father. At first I wanted to commit suicide, and then I wanted to use Salt mixed up with Soap and other things which I was told can terminate Pregnancy but I feared because we did not have Hospital to go to in case I had problems, and secondly I was sleeping alone in isolated place because according to the culture I was supposed to be treated like that.

If I had a chance to come near a hospital I could have removed this pregnancy, but I failed. I just too young to have two children now. Now thank you for coming and for helping, at least now my children have where to sleep and be protected. Those who preach against abortion have never come her to help, I’m here suffering alone for a pregnancy which is the result of violence”.  

Abortion is one among the silent killers in DRC and this affects particularly women: Save the life of one women in DRCongo now

In the Democratic Republic of Congo most of the attention is focused on war, and nothing at all is being oriented towards the victims of unsafe abortion. Not many are looking at what happened to women victims of unwanted pregnancies, women who are involved in survival sex, women who are raped and carry babies they did not plan for or even being prepared to get, women who are victims of early marriages, women who get pregnant on the run, women who sexually abused and women who in commercial sex among others.

Women continue to die in total silence when they try to terminate the pregnancy and when they develop complications during the pregnancy in areas where there is no Health Center and if there is one it has no health workers, no medicine and no equipment.

Let us work together and save a life of woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo, through information sharing, through women accessing information about unsafe abortion, through mitigating cultural beliefs, through ending stigmatization and restoring the lives of the victims, we can make a difference.