My Dream Will Become Your Dream: My Dream

After experiencing for many yeas the sufferings of orphaned and vulnerable children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), I had a vision to start a project for child welfare, although I had no idea how to go about it, let alone the means. It was not until my training by Child Evangelism Fellowship in 2000 that my mission began to take shape. My ideas developed during my studies at Africa University, a Pan-African institution where students from all over Africa are able to exchange experiences and discuss national issues.

Investing in the future is an objective that must be taken into consideration for tomorrow's society. It is from this point of view that I have expressed my wish to set up a social action project for humanitarian needs, working with underprivileged children and poor families in the DRC. Doing so will enable me to give back to the community skills and knowledge I received both from my studies and from my volunteer activities with children's ministries, such as Fairfield Children's Home at Old Mutare Mission in Zimbabwe and the Good News Dorcas Club (GNDC) I founded in January, 2003.

Child Choir

MISSION STATEMENT
Child Action strives to improve the living conditions of orphans and vulnerable children by creating, inspiring, and nurturing the development of spirtual life, education, health care, food, and recreation facilities. Furthermore, the envisioned activities of the Project are intended to benefit children within the community where they live, without any discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political belief, national origin, physical and mental disabilities, or age.

Child Action will target the following goals:

Improve the social conditions, education, health, and quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children;
Child sponsorship programs, which provide help with school fees, school supplies, clothes, and food. In addition, the sponsor may supply emotional support through communication with the child;
Support families and households coping with an increased burden of care for affected and vulnerable children through empowerment programs.

First walking trip

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Child Action is located far south in the Katanga Province, in Lubumbashi. Situated near the Zambian boarder, Lubumbashi offers an administrative advantage as the capital of the Province. It provides the Congo's infrastructure, is the commercial and industrial center, and is accessible to the rest of the country.

What is going on with DRC kids?
For many orphans and vulnerable children, their ability to survive depends on their finding work to earn enough for food. They transport goods, sell food, work in restaurants and homes, load and unload passenger buses, and engage in temporary work in exchange for food and money. Other children are involved in hazardous labor such as mining, child soldiers, prostitution, or selling drugs and alcohol. The situation of those children is precarious. Most of them live in dirtiness and total insecurity. They have no rights and no access to education, health care, food, or security. They are at risk of total economic exploitation.