This Mother's Day at SHONA Congo we are celebrating community!  Because motherhood is a team sport.   In Swahili,there are the...

I rarely post a rant...but...this one...the more I think about it... it keeps getting under my skin. We got an email f...

It has been a little over a year since Argentine and Mapendo and their families arrived in Canada. I am forever impressed by the people of ...

"My daughter was 2 the last time I saw her. She is seventeen now. " The first time I heard these words, my heart caught in m...

1.  Hit the wall. In Congo, when a young child gets a little hurt, for example by running into a wall, the adults in the room will ofte...

I don't believe in happy endings.  But we are a culture in love with happy endings.  And this story begs for one.  This is the st...

Countdown: Arriving in 4 Days. Here is Jonathan, and his younger brother, Joachim after they fled Congo for the second time. They wer...