Douze
Five months ago - when launching the project - we gave the phoneholders a codesheet in Swahili and French; each event has a unique code and we asked the holders just to send these codes. Completely unexpected over the last five months, in addition to the codes, Voix des Kivus received over 250 textmessages in Swahili.
Because time was limited last Wednesday, we picked up our 3 phoneholders in village 1 to talk with all six at the same time in village 2. When driving from village 1 to 2 a big FARDC truck with several FARDC soldiers the age of my little brother passed by. As a response one of our phoneholders screamed through the car "douze"; i.e. the code for the presence of FARDC troops. We all knew exactly what that number meant and we had a good laugh.
Rainy season
Around 9 out of the 12 months it is rainy season here in the Congo. Around Bukavu, for example, from mid-May to beginning August it is dry; the other days it rains. Although it hadn't rained very heavily for a while, our car slipped quite a bit during the day (especially fun on top of mountains). And even 4x4s get stuck once in a while:
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