Mission 4 Monday

Congo War Refugee Relief
Project Leader: Kendall, Glenn & Kathy
Project Type: Field Project Ministry Type: Relief & Development World Area: Africa Country: Democratic Republic of Congo Project ID: 6440-975	Financial Goal: $50,000 Amount Raised: $42,332
Update: July 6, 2009 A pastor's family stands in front of their burnt out home Food and washbasins that were distributed to IDPs Bruce and Anita Paden, WorldVenture missionaries in DR Congo Since April 23 of this year, these funds have helped in the following way: Food and household items to help 400 families from our churches who fled fighting in their areas. Help to churches recovering from conflict, (rebuilding, repairing). Medical help to individuals, (IDPs), and to church medical center in areas that serve IDPs. Help to a pastor and his family whose home was burned down. "[N]eeds vary from place to place and from time to time. At Rubaya, the place where we helped IDPs from our church association the last time that I sent a report to you, we helped the people there with blankets and food items. This time, however, there was some NGO that had already distributed blankets to the people there, so that wasn't a need. Instead of blankets, we gave them washbasins which they did need." More Information International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) June 10, 2009 Kinshasa/Geneva (ICRC) - Fresh outbreaks of armed hostilities in many areas of North and South Kivu are putting additional pressure on entire communities already living in an alarming state of vulnerability. Many have been forced to flee the all-pervasive violence and people in affected regions are unable to lead anything remotely resembling a normal life. Though due to harvest their crops any time now, they are often unable to get to their land because of armed groups in the vicinity.