Conflict Disabilities
Conflict and war have created their own grim disabilities. In Rwanda many thousands of people who survived the genocide had limbs amputated by machete attacks. On the border region with the Congo conflict continues and women are brutally raped as a method of terrorism. Often these women are left with horrific physical disabilities as well as emotional trauma. Many of these women are then rejected by their own people.
In Goma, on the northern Congolese and Rwandan border, the CBM project helps rehabilitate these women through surgical intervention, counselling and micro-credit training. Their families and villages are also educated to welcome rape victims back into the community.
A prosthetic limb can make a dramatic difference to someone's quality of life. The CBM project in Kigali, Rwanda's capital has an expert medical team and state of the art prosthetic limb and wheelchair factory.
