When war is the normal, it is the ordinary acts of life that become powerful acts of courage and hope.
These women in Eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a region scarred by decades of war, manage to build relationships, find love, raise families, and create a sense of community when all else around them is falling apart.
It is these women who are doing their best to become mothers in circumstances they haven't chosen.
It is these women who bear some of the worst burdens of war.