Crisis Mounts in D.R. Congo

Imagine fleeing violence in your home city and settling in a camp for displaced citizens. If that fate isn’t difficult enough, imagine the area around the camp then being seized by members of a rebel group, forcing you back, homeless, to your city of origin where there is no power and virtually no access to water. This scenario isn’t a bad dream. It’s the reality being faced by residents who originally hail from Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Action Against Hunger has been present in D.R. Congo for over two decades and our teams, saving lives, building the capacity of local health systems to address malnutrition and providing families with long-term solutions to hunger. Here's a glimpse into our work in D.R.Congo.

[NEWS UPDATE] Crisis Mounts in DRC: 200,000 Displaced in Past 10 Days

In the past week, a rebel group known as M23 seized Goma, and a handful of nearby towns and has threatened to escalate its activites. M23’s pursuits have long plagued eastern DRC, with rebel-related violence displacing some 650,000 people earlier this year between April and October. But recent events have been catastrophic in scale, with another 200,000 people displaced in the past ten days alone. Find out more...

Action Against Hunger's programmes combine emergency relief with long term sustainability. As well as saving the lives of malnourished children, our teams work with families to improve their access to food and clean water for the future.
 
The UK Government is supporting Action Against Hunger's programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has produced a video showing the impact of our work in the Masi Manimba region. Watch the video...

The town of Masi Manimba is 250 miles from the capital city of Kinshasa in the DRC, and until recently, acute malnutrition was rampant throughout the town. The Department for International Development (DFID) sent an Action Against Hunger emergency team to work in the region. For the past year, however, the community has taken what it learned from our trainings and implemented the knowledge in an extraordinary fashion - and they've learned that by coming together and working as a unit, they're able to achieve far greater results than if each household had worked alone. Find out more...

For 29-year-old Congolese mother Bitondo Patience, malnutrition was a silent threat that attacked her daughter without obvious indicators. But when volunteer health screeners supervised by ACF came to Bitondo and Wabiwa’s home village of Kalama, things changed quickly and for the better. Wabiwa’s swollen feet helped screeners make a quick diagnosis of malnutrition, and take her for free treatment at a health centre in Kilambwigali. Find out more about Wabiwa's recovery...

___________________________________________________
 
Action Against Hunger's life-saving programmes around the world depend on the generous support of donors. Donate Now
 
Stay informed about Action Against Hunger's cutting-edge solutions to child hunger.