Goma Oral History Campaign
Help displaced single mothers in Goma
Your gift helps collect and preserve their oral histories, turn those histories into stronger research, programs, and policies, and help women-led households access better aid distribution, medical care, food assistance, shelter, and migration resources.
The Refugee Archive, Inc. is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 41-3858591.
Why oral histories matter
When a displaced mother tells her story, she also shows what support is still missing.
The Refugee Archive is building a long-form oral-history collection with displaced single mothers and female-headed households in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
These interviews document daily life, displacement, motherhood, access to aid, shelter, food, medical care, protection, education, work, decision-making, and the gaps women encounter when they try to keep their families safe.
With each narrator's consent, selected testimony can become research, humanitarian evidence, and policy insight. The purpose is practical: help organizations design better services and better programming for the women and children most affected.
From story to action
This is how one story can help shape better support for many families.
What your gift supports
The work follows a clear path from oral history to better humanitarian support.
Collect and preserve the oral histories of displaced single mothers.
Use these oral histories to build stronger research, programs, and better policies.
Help them access better support through aid distribution, medical care, food assistance, and migration resources.
Every amount supports the evidence path
You do not need to fund the whole project to help move this work forward.
Help preserve the stories aid systems need to hear.
Support the next interview, transcript, translation, or research step.
Strengthen evidence for better humanitarian services.
Help turn oral histories into better aid and programming.
Get to know the work
The work begins with listening. It continues until that listening becomes action.
Any amount matters because each oral history adds evidence about what displaced single mothers and female-headed households need to live safely, recover, and plan for the future.
"Oral history is the first step. Better support is the goal."
Help displaced single mothers in Goma be heard and better supported.
$25 will not fund an oral history by itself. But $25 joined with another, and another, helps collect the testimony that can lead to better research, stronger policies, and better humanitarian services.