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Writers often call just about any country a “land of striking
contrasts”. In the Eastern Congo the main, inescapable contrast is that
of joy and grief. As we arrived in the town of Bunyakiri a noisy
procession
was celebrating the birth of a child, while not far off, in a makeshift
classroom on the other side of town, 26 health workers are being trained
under the auspices of the Czech charity People in Need to deal with the
gravest of tasks. More
PanoramaPeople in Need at work in the Congo
Czechs are working in crisis spots around the globe, predominantly through
the charity foundation People in Need. Some of the people most truly in
need of that aid are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose
eastern
conflict was largely unknown in the Czech Republic until a few people who
thought they could help came in and started doing so. More
Current AffairsWorld-renowned Czech author Kundera turns 80
Perhaps the best known Czech author in the world today, Milan Kundera,
turns 80 this Wednesday. The reclusive author of works such as ‘The
Unbearable Lightness of Being’ and ‘The Joke’ is celebrating his
birthday in his adoptive France, where he has just released a new volume of
essays.
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Current AffairsExhibits spotlight Czech charities at work in the Heart of Darkness
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the scene of the most deadly
conflict since WWII, and it has become the subject of several exhibitions
around Prague in the last month. The exhibitions focus particularly on
women and children, and on the work of Czech charities in a country that
Joseph Conrad famously called “The Heart of Darkness”.
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