Newsha Tavakolian Democratic Republic Of Congo. Ituri province. Drodro. 2021.
"My name is Love, I'm 32 years old. I have five children. I'm from the Chunga village where I grew up. We had a beautiful life there, I
(...) remember playing. I knew my husband before we fell in love and got married 11 years ago. Still we are together. I'm a good cook, but here we don't have anything to cook. I left everything in our village, my clothes, my stuff, everything. It's all burned now, after the rebels attacked our village.
"Two months ago I went to gather wood for cooking, three men attacked me and one raped me. I was alone and I couldn't protect myself.
"I had to tell to my husband. He just looked at me and didn't talk to me for weeks. I'm also trying to forget about it. But one thing I stopped doing is going out to gather wood." © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos