Fundraising walk in Wickford to benefit Congo

By G. Wayne Miller Journal Staff Writer Nancy Rafi, foreground, is an activist helping to organize the march in Wickford in support of women in the Congo. Behind her are fellow activists Dr. Mari Dias and Andrea Yattaw. The Providence Journal / Kris Craig An African surgeon who brings hope to victims of one of the world’s worst ongoing atrocities wants to extend his mission beyond the operating room. And here in Rhode Island, a group is joining his cause with a nearly year-long series of events that begins with a fund-raising walk tomorrow in Wickford. In his surgery, Dr. Denis Mukwege mends the bodies of girls and women who have been sexually brutalized during civil strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But until Mukwege realizes his ambition of building a “City of Joy” in the Congo, activists say, many will have... [read full story]