We wouldn’t be anywhere without our fixers, I can tell already. Here in Kenya, we’ve gotten to know Caleb Kabanda, who won’t be with us in Goma, but knows the place well.

He’s been preparing us for what we’ll find, being Westerners reporting in a place we’re visibly not from. “When they see you, they think of people who swim in money,” he said. “You’ve got money coming out of everywhere, you’re [defecating] money.”

#DRC #Goma #IWMFellows

– Molly Peterson