Lumo Video

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We are proud to offer this important documentary, for all those interested in learning more about some of the challenges facing women in Eastern Congo.  This documentary is filmed in Goma, where the SHONA women live, and Lumo, the woman featured in the documentary, is in many ways very similar to the SHONA women.  It follows the story of Lumo as she seeks treatment and healing after rape.  This documentary will give you heart-wrenching and powerful insight into the complexities of the challenges women face in this region. 

 

Having lived in Goma, and worked with Congolese women for years, I recommend this film highly because it not only portrays the overwhelming difficulties in the region, but because it respects the dignity and resilience of the women living through such challenges.  This is not an easy film to watch, but it is deeply important, and deeply human. 

 

 

Documentary Description

Twenty-year-old Lumo Sinai was engaged to be married and going about her daily chores when she fell victim to an act of brutality of "Africa's First World War" — rape as a tool of political terror. On the road to her village, Lumo and another woman were kidnapped and gang-raped by one of the groups of marauding soldiers vying for control of the eastern Congo.

Lumo is an intimate look into a woman's tragedy and healing process, and, by extension, into the scourge of rape that marks the war-torn politics of central Africa. Lumo is also the story of a remarkable African hospital that works tirelessly to restore the physical and mental health of women suffering in an epidemic of fistula caused by rape. The hospital's self-called "Mamas," African women who work tirelessly as healers, even flout traditional prejudice and government policy by leading a march in defense of women's human rights. But Lumo remains most of all Lumo Sinai's story as she struggles through four failed surgeries and searches for strength to face the future — whatever the outcome of one more surgery by the hospital's dedicated doctors.

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