WOMEN of the CONGO

A NIGHT TO BENEFIT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE CONGO

WITH EVE ENSLER AND WHOOPI GOLDBERG

October 20, 2009 

Music by Madeleine Peyroux

Thank you for your generousity and commitment.  On October 20th together we have raised $123,000. 

Your donation helps feed, shelter, teach, nurture, train, and heal victims of sexual violence in the DRC. 

2nd ANNUAL WOMEN OF THE CONGO BENEFIT 

Eve Ensler, V-Day Founder and Playwright; Jeffrey Gettleman,  Journalist and East Africa Bureau Chief New York Times 

Jennifer Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Eve Ensler, Stacey Breckling 

Whoopi Goldberg, Eve Ensler 

Dayle Haddon, Loreal spokesperson, UNICEF ambassador; Ann Veneman,  Executive Director of UNICEF

Jeffrey Gettleman; John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project, human rights activist and author; Eve Ensler

2009 Women of the Congo Planning Committee

Dan Peres, Details Editor-in-Chief; Sarah Wynter, Actress

Ann Veneman,  Executive Director of UNICEF; Peggy Kerry, State Department, NGO Liaison at the US Mission

John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project, human rights activist and author

Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are enduring their twelfth year of sexual terrorism in a regional economic war for resources in which hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured.  

Donations will go toward The City of Joy, a safe house and leadership community under construction in Bukavu, DRC. A joint effort between V-Day (the global movement to stop violence against women and girls) and UNICEF, the City of Joy has been designed to make the women living there feel secure, calm, and empowered.

Please join us in fighting the epidemic of violence by helping these survivors regain control over their lives.

“Follow your instincts,” says Eve Ensler. “Rise to what is inside you. That’s how to change the world.”

 - O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2008, reporting on the 2008 Women of the Congo benefit

The 2009 Planning Committee thank you  for your support.  

Aimée Brady, Stacey Breckling, Margaret Caron, Katie Carron, Jennifer Chalsen, Julie Chang, Kirsten Cleary, Young-Yi Clinton, Jennifer Crossland, Michelle Foligno, Jennifer Friedman, Kulsoom Gul, Stefy Hilmer, Amy Hochhauser, Natalie Horton, Ana Jovancicev, Catherine Kelley, Sharon Kim, Amelie Kraus, Sarah LeBuhn, Joanne Lee, Heather Miller, Andrea Moglia, Catherine Mugo, Jane Nadasi, Mary Nangah, Jennifer Oakes, Kelli O'Donnell, Susannah Owen, Alison Pack, Andrea Perrone, Andee Radu, Virginia Reynolds, Tristin Rumack, Tanya Scholl, Orit Small, Keira Smith, Jessica Suh, Tara Taylor, Janine Thompson, Lisa Von Redden, Allison Waguespack, Sarah Wynter, Jarret Yoshida, Jennifer Williams