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INCEF education coordinator Eric Kinzonzi and our two education trainees just returned from a three-week AIDS education mission to the Pool District in the Republic of Congo.  They traveled 126 kilometers and dodged a gang of armed robbers to educate almost 2,000 people on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, discuss social stigmatization and alienation, distribute condoms and stress the need for testing.

When the team arrived in the village of Kibosi, they learned that armed robbers operating in the area had attacked and robbed a group of travelers a few nights before.  INCEF teams carry high-tech projection equipment, and villagers feared our educators would be prime targets for the next attack.

After years in the field, however, very little fazes Eric.  He quickly met with local military personnel to arrange an armed guard of 10 men, and then went back to work.  The team spent three days in Kibosi showing films and educating large crowds of teens and adults before continuing on – safe and sound – to Goma Tsé-Tsé.