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Standing Strong Despite Everything | From Survival To Governance
A woman on crutches smiles as she participates in the Shamba la Amani program organized by community development actor Bahati Mubuya Gladys in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026. Balancing a container on her head with effortless dignity on the volcanic rock ground, she embodies the extraordinary resilience of women in eastern DRC who, despite physical injury, displacement, and years of ethnic conflict, continue to show up for their families, their communities, and for each other. Gladys' integrated approach to peacebuilding deliberately includes the most marginalized and physically vulnerable women, ensuring that the program's benefits agricultural tools, shared land, psychosocial support, and economic opportunity reach those most often left behind by both armed groups and humanitarian aid systems.
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A Shelter to Rebuild
A woman enters a corrugated iron shelter in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026, during the Shamba la Amani program led by community development actor Bahati Mubuya Gladys. The sparse, utilitarian structure set against a grey sky on bare volcanic terrain speaks to the precarious living conditions facing tens of thousands of war returnees in North Kivu, many of whom have come back to villages stripped of infrastructure, livelihoods, and inter-community trust. Gladys' program does not offer these women rebuilt houses. It offers something more durable: a shared economic foundation and a reason to stay together and begin again. In a region where the cycle of displacement and return has repeated itself for three decades, Shamba la Amani represents a deliberate bet on permanence over flight.
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The Way Back | From Survival To Governance
Women war returnees make their way across a lush hillside landscape toward the Shamba la Amani collective field in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026, as part of a program led by community development actor Bahati Mubuya Gladys. Carrying seeds and supplies on their backs, leaning on walking sticks, moving in a quiet procession through one of eastern Congo's most spectacular and bloodied landscapes, these women are not fleeing they are returning. For Gladys, this journey physically, emotionally, communally is the very heart of Shamba la Amani: the act of women from different ethnic backgrounds choosing to walk the same path, toward the same field, for the same future, in a territory where that choice has never been easy or guaranteed.
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The Silent Witness | From Survival To Governance
A young person attends a community gathering of the Shamba la Amani program led by Bahati Mubuya Gladys in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026. Photographed from behind their face unseen, their identity protected the figure sits in half-shadow at the edge of the room, listening. The image speaks to the thousands of young people in eastern DRC who have grown up knowing only conflict, displacement, and ethnic hostility as the defining realities of their world. Gladys' integrated peacebuilding model deliberately engages youth alongside women, understanding that sustainable social cohesion cannot be built without bringing the next generation into the circle of reconciliation not as passive witnesses to adult peace efforts, but as active participants in shaping what comes next.
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SHAMBA LA AMANI | From Survival To Governance
Bahati Mubuya Gladys, community development actor and coordinator of the Shamba la Amani program, addresses a group of women war returnees seated in a lush field in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026. Surrounded by green hills rolling toward the horizon under a wide, clouded sky, Gladys speaks at the center of a circle of women from formerly warring ethnic communities now united around a shared plot of land, a shared harvest, and a shared stake in the peace. The scene a woman leader holding court not in an office but in the middle of a field, among the people she serves captures the essence of Gladys' approach: that women's empowerment and conflict transformation are not programs delivered from above but relationships built from the ground up, in the soil itself.
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The Weight of Years, the Power of the Gaze | From Survival To Governance
A woman war returnee listens intently during a community session of the Shamba la Amani program led by Bahati Mubuya Gladys in Mudja, Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2026. Her face lined by years of hardship, her hands clasped under her chin in concentrated thought carries the full weight of what it means to have survived decades of conflict in eastern Congo and to now, cautiously, be invited to imagine a different future. Gladys' program provides more than agricultural support: it offers psychosocial accompaniment, women's leadership training, and safe spaces where survivors can process the trauma of displacement and ethnic violence within the very communities that were once divided against each other. It is in moments like this one a woman listening, thinking, considering that the slow, irreversible work of peacebuilding truly begins.