— By Dominique Vidale-Plaza, founder of Build Hope, & blogger of development, healthcare, and despair in the the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dominique Vidale-Plaza, one of our Global MedStartrs. See her project by clicking her photo here. I had studied the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tumultuous past for years, hoping to come to a better understanding of this nation that is known as the “heart of darkness”. But books, blogs and theories couldn’t compare to what I learned