With the DRC's sorrowful history of brutal colonialism and subsequent dictatorship, and ongoing ethnic violence between rebel groups of Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and DRC, this region has seen its share of tragedy.  In Burundi we saw programs to reforest a country which lost 50% of its forest cover due to ethnic violence (in Rwanda the genocide exploded in 1994 while fighting in Burundi was ongoing for decades before and during) where groups burned the forest to flush people out and to make it unlivable, and subsequent population growth has put tremendous pressure on the land.  FH works with producer associations to do mass multiplication of trees and plant seeds.  We saw "radical terracing" to reclaim land and make it productive.  Animals are involved to use their manure to increase soil fertility.  Care Groups methodologies are used to spread nutrition, hygiene and disease prevention training.  Water systems and latrines are being constructed, along with community management systems strengthened to manage them into the future.  Village savings and loan groups (the models I worked with in the Dominican Republic years ago) are being implemented throughout Africa where people are amassing large sums of savings and investing in productive activities.  While seeing a package of integrated programs like this is inherently exciting, to see it done in post-conflict areas where refugees are being resettled, former child soldiers are being decommissioned is astonishing.  My hat off to the staff of FH DRC and Burundi as well as the other organizations who serve in these hard places.