Stand with displaced people in the DRC

Kangudia is a human rights activist living in the Kasai region of the DRC. Thanks to generous donors like you, she was trained by ActionAid to act as a paralegal for the communities affected by the Kasai conflict.

ActionAid, in collaboration with the Congolese National Police (PNC) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has trained 40 paralegals in Kasai Oriental and Kasai Central Provinces of the DRC.

“I help village men and women demand justice when they face any violation of human rights, for example sexual gender-based violence. I provide the information on what the law says about the situation they are facing,” Kangudia shared.

Over the past two years in the DRC, thousands of people were displaced by violence between militia. In the midst of this crisis, the community saw an increase in gender-based violence. People like Kangudia stepped up to find justice and healing for survivors of violence.

Through your support, the work continues. ActionAid is helping activists in the DRC

• facilitate community dialogues between the local government and women's groups representatives around advocacy for the reduction of sexual and gender-based violence
• build two women's information and protection centers to support survivors
• organize community-led trainings around sexual and gender-based violence for more than 800 people in the Kasai region

If you haven't already, please share this project with your friends and family. We need your support in order to keep great leaders like Kangudia leading the way to a world in which women's human rights are respected and championed.

Thank you.