{"id":23220,"date":"2026-10-30T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/10\/30\/the-war-in-congo-has-stolen-the-childhood-of-countless-young-girls\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:58:18","slug":"the-war-in-congo-has-stolen-the-childhood-of-countless-young-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/10\/30\/the-war-in-congo-has-stolen-the-childhood-of-countless-young-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The War in Congo Has Stolen the Childhood of Countless Young Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DfILQNRyONj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DfILQNRyONj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display:block;height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px)\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;height: 12.5px;transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px);width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent;transform: translateY(16px)\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px;transform: translateY(-4px)\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent;transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DfILQNRyONj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">\nTHE WAR IN CONGO HAS STOLEN THE CHILDHOOD OF COUNTLESS YOUNG GIRLS  <\/p>\n<p>Imagine being a child and learning, before you\u2019ve had a chance to be one, what rape feels like. What forced labor feels like. What it means to be married off to a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the reality for countless girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where years of war have exposed them to sexual violence, forced labor and child marriage. Their childhoods weren\u2019t lost. They were taken.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu DRC works to tell their stories, stand with survivors, and fight for their dignity, safety and future.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, much of the world barely hears about it. A war that has displaced millions and pushed girls into the worst kinds of violence can go days without a headline, while the children living through it have no one to speak for them.<\/p>\n<p>Be their voice. Share their stories. Support the organizations working to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>Because every girl deserves to grow up. <\/p>\n<p>Source: @ekatoto and support Ubuntu DRC.<\/p>\n<p>#UbuntuDRC #CongoCrisis #ProtectTheGirlChild #EndSexualViolence #SupportSurvivors #fyp #arab #viralpost #reels #everyonehighlights #news\t<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nNo more AIPAC. They are officially rebranded to the United Democracy Project. Now, AIPAC will no longer be publicly endorsing congressional candidates and will be stopping all the direct campaign contributions to specific political campaigns. However, it&#8217;s still very much here. Just being decentralized and it is being rebranded. Now under the decentralized model, basically, what&#8217;s happening is this huge pool of donors who would be AIPAC are going to be sending money as private citizens to individual campaigns, rather than through the official AIPAC brand. They&#8217;re going to be rebranding themselves as the United Democracy Project. Like, how good is that sound, United Democracy project? You just know that it&#8217;s going to work on boomers and it&#8217;s going to work on MAGA. It&#8217;s going to work on low ball Democrats. You&#8217;re going to hear United Democracy, instantly the brain&#8217;s turning off. But it will very much do the same thing. It&#8217;s just going to be a lot harder to track because it&#8217;s decentralized and it&#8217;s going to be rebranded. So everybody who&#8217;s sub 80 IQ is going to have no idea what&#8217;s going on. But you have to tell them. 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