Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has cost many lives and displaced millions. The organizers of a beauty pageant want to unite and inspire those affected by the conflict.
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00:24Thanks to MissKivu, we said to ourselves, being modelists, being stylists,
00:29we are Doctors Without Borders.
00:31So we have no barrier, we go here and there,
00:34and only to preach peace and to preach unity.
00:38We, being modelists, we are here to preach peace through our encounter,
00:44to preach peaceful cohabitation, fashion in a state way,
00:49to normally define what life we live here.
00:53Because I believe that we live so much,
00:55and it is already a very serious problem for us, being Congolese.
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01:10We think that by putting the community together,
01:13by celebrating a single crown,
01:15and by wanting a single Miss to be the representative of the whole region,
01:20we firmly believe that it is also a step towards the promotion of peace in the region.
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01:33In other countries, in other continents, a Miss is considered an authority.
01:38So when we are an authority, we have more people following us,
01:43and it is easy to influence a mass of people.
01:47It helps several girls, in any case, to have self-confidence,
01:51to know how to speak in front of an audience without being ashamed or afraid of anyone.
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