Petronille Vaweka

Petronille Vaweka (born 1948), is a humanitarian NGO activist who led the Ituri Interim Assembly of Ituri Interim Administration, while in transition from the status of a district of Orientale Province to a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She had a carefree childhood and she went to the Sisters of Mary Ingelmunster's school in the city of Bunia which is the capital of Ituri province.

[citation needed] She worked with the Ituri Pacification Commission in 2003, which helped establish the assembly.

The other three were the Kenyan Hamisa Zaja, Dr Marie-Marcelle Deschamps of Haiti and Abir Haj Ibrahim from Syria.

[5] Her achievements have been lauded by the United Narions and her face was displayed as part of a UN "Peace Begins with Her" campaign, outside the UK headquarters in New York in 2023.