Feza was 14 the day a group of Interahamwe interrupted her church service. Most of those in the service successfully ran away, but Feza and three other girls did not make it. They got trapped, and the militiamen caught them.

Feza was brutally raped by nine men that day. Then they forced her to carry on her head everything they had looted in the village. The militiamen took Feza to their hiding place. There she served as a sex slave and a maid. She was mistreated and raped frequently. She got pregnant during the time she was there.

One day while she was out to a creek to get some water for the militiamen, she found the courage to run away. She fled with four other women. They ran back to her village.

She now struggles for her daily survival. She is afraid that she has aids and still has physical pain from the rape but has never been able to access treatment. She loves her child born from the rape, but the community around her does not tolerate her or her child. Today Feza is 19 and still bears the moral and physical scars of sexual violence. Feza‘s life is a mirror of the lives of thousands of Congolese women who are paying the price for this war.