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August 4, 2013

Changed forever by ‘Women of Courage’

Sister Mary-Ellen Francoeur dances with women quarry workers at Nyatende, South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Francoeur spent two weeks in the Congo with a KAIROS delegation.

I spent two weeks in June in the Republic of Congo representing the Canadian Religious Conference as part of a five-person delegation called The Women of Courage. The delegation’s name was deeply inspiring and humbling.

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