A Moment with Haiti's Valiant Women for International Women's Day

It was a couple of months after the earthquake before I went to see the women. Malya and Eramithe have been friends of mine for many years. We have had highs and lows together, and I have listened to their stories and the stories of the women around them many times. Their organization, KOFAVIV (The Commission of Women Victims for Victims) has a membership of women and girls who are survivors of rape and worse. For this reason seeing the women is never an easy thing, but after the earthquake I had already heard the stories about the attacks in the camps. And I knew that my friends were living in the most dangerous and terrible place I could imagine. It was going to be much more difficult this time.

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