Community Gathering in a Village in the DRC

Lucie Poki, widow of a farmer who was once “Chef de Localité” of Bokweli village speaks out during a village meeting. Sicobois (a logging company) promised the village a school in exchange for logging in the local area. The school however, has been left unfinished. Plundered forests, physical intimidation and unfulfilled promises is the legacy of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s broken industrial logging model according to new findings from Greenpeace, after the environmental organisation visited the communities affected by the operations of logging companies.