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The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

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Combating Sexual Violence in Eastern Congo

The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most dangerous places on earth for women. SOS Femmes en Danger (SOSFED) a Congolese NGO, treats victims of sexual violence and helps them to return home. AP has supported SOSFED since 2008, and in 2010 the two partners launched an ambitious program to help women reduce their exposure to rape.

The partners acknowledge with gratitude the support of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) in Berlin.

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Milestones

First manioc mill comes onstream at the Mboko center: August 1, 2011
Inauguration of the Mboko water well, bringing water for 800 families: August 15, 2011
Charlie Walker, fifth Peace Fellow, arrives to work with SOSFED: August 1, 2011
The six Ahadi quilts are shown for the first time together, at Georgetown University: April 20, 2011
The second Ahadi quilt is exhibited at the 10th anniversary of Zivik, Berlin: March 23, 2011
The first Ahadi quilt is exhibited at the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva): February 2011.
Lynching triggers mass rape in Fizi: Peace Fellow Walter James dissects the January 2011 rape in his blog from Eastern DRC.
Spreading the message: Read the first SOS-FED newsletter (October 2010 - French)
SOS-FED online: SOS-FED posts a new website (September 2010)
IFA/Zivik signs a program of support for SOSFED (May 1, 2010)
Those who rape: An SOSFED analysis of sexual violence and the militia groups in Uvira and Fizi Territories, South Kivu (April 2010)
Profiles in courage: Watch video interviews with SOSFED's coordinator and survivors (August 2009)
The First Fellow: Ned Meerdink arrives in Kivu for AP, to volunteer with Congolese civil society. Read his first blog (September 2008)

The Ahadi Quilt
In 2010, women in the SOSFED program produced 120 embroidered panels about their lives. Working together proved deeply therapeutic. Their panels have been since assembled into six quilts in the US and are being exhibited in Europe and North America. Read the profiles.

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