Congolese dance teacher Amina Lusambo conducts a dance session for rape survivors at a rehabilitation centre attached to the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Djaffar Al Katanty
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - It was the silence of the traumatised young women she saw before her that convinced dance teacher Amina Lusambo she must do something to help.
So she set up dance sessions for rape survivors at a rehabilitation centre attached to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in eastern Congo, which according to hospital authorities has treated more than 60,000 survivors of sexual violence in its some 20 years of operation.
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