A couple of months ago, I was invited to a day of performances at the Insitut de Goma. Here are a couple of photos. They are straight off the camera and I might replace them with edited versions if I sort out Photoshop...
The day was organised by a Congolese association of disabled youth: ACDF. The acronym stands for Association Congolais "Debut et Fier" and the organisation runs 6 residential rehabilitation centres across the Congo. The centres provide free orthopaedic services to disabled children and youth. There is one in Goma.
ACDF is mostly funded by StandProud (www.standproud.org) which features in this Pulitzer centre I-book: http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/africa-DRC-congo-children-ebook written by Kem and John Sawyer who visited the ACDF centres in Goma and Kinshasa earlier this year.
So here are some photos from the day...
The fashion parades were colourful affairs....
So, that's the day that was.... a couple of months ago.