A marriage between a soldier and a pacifist strains and changes.

‘We are no strangers to separation.’

Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.

After two decades of war, a new census in Eastern Congo will finally count the thousands of military widows. Many do not have access to the monthly compensation promised to them.

From overcrowded barracks to the frontlines, Congolese Army wives are an unseen and vulnerable population with next to zero support from the government. They struggle to make full lives out of little. Here is a story of one wife.