Using boxing to help DRC鈥檚 'outcasts'
Today we find out why an ex-soldier set up a boxing gym for displaced survivors, homeless children and former child soldiers after the conflict in the DRC
Balezi Bagunda is known as Kibomango and his first love is boxing, but a lack of career options in the Democratic Republic of Congo meant that he became a soldier at 17. But when the government was overthrown in a coup, Balezi found himself destitute and forced into hiding. He tells Emily Webb how he went from sleeping in a football stadium to creating a boxing club inside that stadium for other people who are looked at as outcasts.
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(Image: Young people training at a boxing club in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo credit: Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images.)
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