Carry on the work on breaking the silence

Help survivors to raise their voices even louder

Digital training

Carry on breaking the silence and the taboos, help the survivors to develop their ways of expression, so that they can share themselves, amongst themselves, is the first mission of Voice of Panzi. To talk about the trauma in order to reduce their impact so that they can start to build themselves back up is a work that they are already doing, and that together with can carry on. Just like in the podcast "Elle m'inspire", the survivors will be able to share their story to a person of their choice in the format of an hour long interview. Other that the therapeutic act of storytelling, the podcast will allow them to share their voices in their own country and internationally.  

, to allow survivors to express themselves, to share amongst themselves is the first mission of this project. To talk about their trauma in order to reduce their effect and to be able to rebuild. As in the original podcast Elle m'inspire, the survivors will be able to share their stories to one another in an interview format of an hour or how long is needed.

Voices of Panzi will be accessible to the whole world. Thanks to our many distribution partenaires, we will make sure that theirs voices are being heard from Kinshasa to Washington D.C. , from Haïti to Brussels. The fact that they will be able to share their stories themselves and not via a third party is the strength of the project. Their stories are their own, the training team are only there to give them the means to share them. Just as the survivors and Dr. Mukwege wished for, their voices will be heard over the borders, in order to bring awareness to the international community that needs to face its responsibility with regards to the conflict linked to the minerals.

We are living in the digital age, its practically impossible to avoid the use of the internet whether it would be for professional or personal use. Nonetheless, on the African continent, only 28% of men have access the internet and this rate drops to 22% for women. That gap is even wider between urban and rural area where only 2% of villages have access to the internet.

With this project, the survivors of rape as a weapon of war will be trained and will develop precious skills to be able to use the internet in an intelligent way. Navigation, publication, communication and diffusion; from uploading their podcast on all the appropriate platforms to how to effectively communication on social media. They will come out of that workshop armed for the digital adventure.

More over, we hope to help them develop digital skills that will be useful in other professions and lead to acquire paid jobs within local NGOs, local radios, startups and to the monetization of their podcast.