How the Women Lawyers’ Movement is helping families in DRC use the legal system to benefit children — Like many parents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nicole Kahindo had never thought about birth certificates. “I only knew that, as long as my husband and his family recognized our children, and that would suffice for life to go on. No one could…

How 15 women won rights to their own land in eastern Congo

How the women of Un Jour Nouveau turned $500 in fabric into $50,000 in sales — and saved countless lives Months ago, Un Jour Nouveau (UJN), a local community organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was planning to use $500 in capital from ECI to strengthen their dressmaking program, a social enterprise that helps women in North Kivu uplift their communities with training in business, leadership and in-demand…