While government representatives sit idly, debating over cocktails whether to do something about global climate change with carbon trading schemes, their own houses are afire. Climate change, left unchecked, will doom every government on the planet, and it will happen much sooner than they presently imagine.
In December, one of the HEAL Africa counselors was dispatched from Goma to Lubutu, a seven hour drive, to advocate for a woman that needed legal help. The woman was a patient in a hospital where a nurse raped her. She was poor and powerless to prosecute him without HEAL Africa's help.
When the counselor intervened, the hospital administration fired the nurse, and he was sorely indignant at losing his job. He had been well paid, so his family lost their standard of living. Tribal leaders in the local villages saw this as a grave injustice, and began to make dire threats. They threatened to kill the counselor, and they promised to band together and sabotage HEAL Africa's operations throughout the region.