Congo Week: Commemorate The Tragedy, Celebrate the Culture

The reason we host Congo Week in the month of October is because it
was in October 1996 that mainly Rwanda and Uganda first invaded the Congo and
triggered the catastrophic crisis that we have endured for the past 16 years.
Since we began Congo Week in 2008, sixty countries and over 300 communities have
joined us to demonstrate their support and value for Congolese
lives.

Due to your support along with others throughout the globe, world
leaders are finally listening to Congolese voices and applying pressure to the
dominant source of the instability in the east of our country. The United
States, Netherlands, Sweden and a number of other donor nations are finally
holding the Rwandan government accountable by withholding aid as a result of
Rwanda's support for rebel groups inside the Congo.

As youth and future leaders of our country, we are clear that Congo's
challenge is both external and internal. Young people will gather throughout the
country during Congo Week (October 14 – 20, 2012) to discuss and examine the
path that Congo took to arrive in its current condition and build on strategies
for realizing peaceful and lasting change.

We call on you to join us in
addressing our external challenges as we face and tackle the various internal
forces that have rendered our country dependent, impoverished and
unstable.

This is an historic opportunity for you to be a part of the
global movement to bring an end to what is described as the greatest
humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century and the deadliest conflict
since World War Two.

We encourage you to seize the moment and become a
part of a noble pursuit for justice and human dignity in the heart of Africa, my
home, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Samya Lugoma
Student
Coordinator
Friends of the Congo

Sign-up for Congo Week!
http://congoweek.org/participation-form.html

Support
Congo Week!
http://www.congoweek.org/donate.html

Remember
to post your event on the events calendar:
http://congoweek.org/component/events/

Share
the Congo Week promotional video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0AWeWvMkHk

Download
Congo Week Organizers Tool Kit and Materials:
http://congoweek.org/downloads.html

Screen
our film Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth
http://congojustice.org

Participate
in the CELL-OUT, on October 17, 2012. The CELL-OUT is a one-hour digital moment
of silence in support of the Congolese people.
http://congoweek.org/the-cell-out.html

Follow us on Twitter @congofriends and tweet your
support using hashtags #CongoWeek and #CW2012 leading up to and during Congo
Week.

Friends of the
Congo

Friends of the Congo

phone: 202-584-6512

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