Jade Lambert/Introduction

A pre-med student at UC Prospect, in the summer of 2018 Jade Lambert traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the auspices of international aid group Third World Concern. Among several dozen college students from across the United States to volunteer to spend their vacation assisting the underprivileged, Jade was one of ten assigned to a village of the Hema people in the extreme northwest of the country. She was also the only one of the ten to survive when Lendu militia attacked the village. Believed dead for over two months before she finally resurfaced in Kinshasa, she spent about a day and a half as a minor celebrity for her miraculous survival before some fresh outrage overtook the headlines.