Considering the scope of the problem and the number of victims, that isn't much. You have to put yourself in the Congolese context. Mr. Bélanger, who went to Congo, could talk about that: the health system exists only on paper. The hospitals and health centres have nothing. In the context of the Canadian, Belgian and American projects, in particular, we first provided those women with drugs and care. That doesn't represent much in the cases where the programs were established only in the secured areas. It's increasing now, but it initially covered only a small part of South and North Kivu, and not at all Maniena. Now it's being expanded.
We see that medical and psychosocial resources are increasing. As part of the Canadian project, for example, 40,000 women have been treated and supported. That's a relatively large number, but as you heard in recent hearings, we're talking about 300,000 victims here. For a woman living in the country, there is really no recourse. Women's groups always arrive at the scene of a massacre before the international organizations or UN agencies. They go and see what is happening and provide first aid. Those Congolese groups are the first to do so and are still doing it. That's what happened in Walikale, when those 13 villages were attacked. No one dared go there, but those women's groups did.
So the local groups on the ground have a will and a capability that the agencies don't have. They lack resources, particularly means of transportation, since the roads are still largely non-existent or impassable. Even though there has been an improvement, the problem is still enormous, contrary to what the central government states. It's deplorable.