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Description :

Nutritional assistance through agricultural and fish farming projects to help 76-orphaned children abandoned and marginalized such as warlock children. Confronted with malnourishment lacking in proteins and vitamins we wish to help these children by excavating a pond that would allow them to farm fish for a richer daily diet.

This amount includes the necessary funds to build a small house for a sentinel. The land where the agricultural and fishpond are located is in an isolated area. Without full time surveillance, products from the fields are stolen and the fish are fished out.

Goals:

• Provide children with enough fish for at least two to three meals per week.
• Plant a variety of vegetables and foliage on a hectare of land, introducing more vitamins to their diets.

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Description :

Nutritional support through an agricultural and aviculture project to assist undernourished children and adults. Because of the nutritional difficulties experienced by many families in the region of Mateko, we wish to help them by presenting workshops on agriculture and animal husbandry. We will also supply the necessary agricultural equipment such as: wheelbarrows, spades, hoes, rakes and watering cans to each group from the five villages. Our local trainers will travel to the four targeted villages to supervise the groups’ endeavours. A large diversity of seeds will be planted bringing families foods rich in vitamins.

Additionally, a chicken coup will be built in Mateko providing shelter for about one hundred laying hens. This project’s aim is to enrich the diet for the undernourished. If this has a positive outcome, we will introduce it to the other four villages.

Goals:

• Eradicate malnourishment in isolated villages.
• Make available to poor families a great diversity in vegetables, obtaining a better concentration of vitamins as well as eliminating illness due to malnutrition.
• More than 120 people (orphans, one parent families and senior citizens) will benefit each and every day from this program.

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Description:

Education is a given right according to the World Convention on Human Rights, but not in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; it is a privilege accorded only to children whose parents are able to pay for their education.

Goals:

• Let marginalized children study
• Offer these children a good education in viable schools.
• Offer these children their human rights and dignity
• Offer them a reassuring and promising future.

Cost per year: $6,000.00 for 30 children.

Elementary School: $150 per child per year, all included except for the internet

High School: $300 per child per year, all-inclusive, except for the internet.

It is our hope to help 20 children in the elementary and 10 children in high school during 2010.

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Description:

Purchase medical equipment such as scialytical lamps for an operating room, surgical beds, scales for adults (4),
and children (3).

Goals:

• Replace obsolete equipment.
• Follow children’s growth rates and patients suffering from malnutrition with weight scales.

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Description :

Purchase 100 drainpipes to counteract the deterioration of foundations damaged by soil erosion due to the rainy season; build a 10,000-litre well. Repair sidewalks and foundations of the three main buildings.

Goals:

Construction of the 10,000-litre well will allow collection of rainwater (9 months per year) so as to be used by the sick and hospital personnel for laundry, dishes and baths rather than having to travel many kilometres to get water from the river. The drainpipes will help protect against soil erosion and will retain rainwater channelled directly to the well.

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Description:

The purchase and installation of a manioc, corn and soya power generated mill. Women from the village spend the whole day in the forest (4:00 AM to 8:00 PM). They come home exhausted. Most of these women do not have paying jobs and depend on their husband’s meagre salary. We have therefore created a local organization to help them take charge. The RMNJ focuses on agricultural work and teaches mothers how to make bread, nut milk and soya milk. They also learn how to make soap and fermented wine.

Goals:

• Reduce by two to three hours the daily work of these women through the use of a power-driven mill.
• Fight malnutrition through improved nourishment.
• Improve living conditions for mothers in rural areas and help them have a trade.

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Description:

Purchase a used Jeep for the needs of the Mission. There is presently no motorized vehicle available within the Mission.  Everyone has to travel long distances by bike or on foot to get supplies for the Mission.

Goals:

• Transportation of the sick to the Kivuvu Hospital
• Transportation of patients to nutritional centers (malnutrition)
• Transportation to purchase provisions and medicines for the hospital, the nutritional centre, and the village artisans toward the cities (Kikwit 130 kms or Mokala 70 kames)
• Facilitate the transportation of the village doctor and other individuals responsible for visits to health centers, transportation to elementary and secondary schools in nearby villages serving a population of more than 10,000 habitants.

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Description:

Purchase of 15 sewing, 2 overcast stitching and 2 knitting machines; 13,000 yards of fabric, finishing edges, sewing accessories and a blackboard for use during theoretical classes. This project will be located near the Mambongo elementary school with the collaboration of Mrs. Alphonsine Kasuma, expert in tailoring and sewing.

Goals:

• Give women and young girls the opportunity to learn a trade thus becoming proactive in their lives by making a little bit of money all the while participating in the development of this community.
• Offer the population a workshop on reasonably priced repair and tailoring of clothes.
• Help create employment for women within a community.

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Description:

Purchase of 20 bikes as a mode of transportation for villagers. Congolese walk an average of 20 kilometers, and sometimes more, to travel from one village to another. There is no means of communication such as telephone or internet in these villages. Communication is only done through walking whatever distance necessary. The transportation of sick individuals is done by a family member carrying the patient on their back to the nearest dispensary. A bicycle is an essential means of transportation which allows great autonomy.

Goals:

• Help transport patients on a stretcher mounted bicycle.
• Save on energy and time expended by people walking many kilometers in the hot sun or under heavy rain.
• Counteract related health issues to these long journeys (dehydration, heat stroke, fatigue)
• Reduce long periods of absence from the family.
• Avoid transporting heavy loads on head, back and shoulders.

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