'God chose me': Congo Ebola survivor finds new purpose

Undaunted by the challenge of bringing up 10 children alone, she has become a social worker, supporting other ostracised survivors like herself in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo.

“It makes me useful. I tell myself that it is God who chose me,” she said outside her sky-blue wooden house in Goma, North Kivu province, a city re-built on the black lava that spewed from a nearby volcano in 2002. “When the neighbours heard about Ebola, everyone hid,” Lukoo said. “I ask people to think of Ebola as any disease, and tell them that Esperance has healed.”

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'God chose me': Congo Ebola survivor finds new purposeFor Esperance Nyabintu, catching Ebola was a curse and a gift from God. A year ago the virus killed her husband. Most of her neighbours, friends and family abandoned her, such is the social stigma of surviving the disease.
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'God chose me': Congo Ebola survivor finds new purposeFor Esperance Nyabintu, catching Ebola was a curse and a gift from God. A year ago the virus killed her husband. Most of her neighbours, friends and family abandoned her, such is the social stigma of surviving the disease.
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