Protect and Empower
RAISE Hope for Congo, a campaign of the Enough Project, works to protect and empower Congolese women and girls through the following means:
- Raise awareness about the conflict minerals crisis, widespread sexual violence against women and girls, and the solutions that are necessary to end the conflict.
- Increase coverage of the conflict in eastern Congo.
- Build a movement of activists who can advocate effectively for change.
- Influence and change policy on the Congo through promotion of the 4Ps: Peace, Protection, Punishment, and Prevention; the four ingredients necessary to END the mass violence against women in Congo.
The Campaign
The RAISE Hope for Congo campaign aims to build a permanent and diverse constituency of activists who will advocate for the protection and empowerment of Congolese women and girls. The Enough Project will collaborate with national, grassroots, and Congolese organizations, across various constituencies and the political spectrum, to build this grassroots movement. Enough will also continue to provide policy analysis and recommendations, focusing on the 4Ps: Peace, Protection, Punishment, and Prevention.
The first step to building a movement is to raise awareness about the crisis in Congo. The campaign provides activists with informative tools to educate themselves and their communities about the conflict in eastern Congo and the epidemic of sexual violence against women and girls.
No matter how much we know or how much we care, we will only succeed if we speak out and demand action from our leaders. The campaign offers a menu of actions that activists can take to raise their voices and call for an end to the conflict and sexual violence in eastern Congo.
Despite the horrific scale of the violence, and the grave consequences of the conflict in Congo, we rarely see it on television, we seldom hear about it on the radio, and we hardly ever read about it in the newspapers. The campaign works with activists to raise the profile of the Congo conflict in the media and demand that the media shine a light on this invisible yet catastrophic crisis.
