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Friends of the Congo 1. Bring an end to the conflict 2. Contribute to fulfilling the enormous human and natural potential of the Congo.

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Congo's mothers are more than caretakers ⬇️They’re catalysts for change, shaping Congo's future one step at a time.What ...
08/06/2024

Congo's mothers are more than caretakers ⬇️

They’re catalysts for change, shaping Congo's future one step at a time.

What sets Congolese mothers apart from their counterparts across the globe is their incredible resilience in the face of tremendous adversity,

their fierce dedication to their children's futures,

and their unwavering commitment to social justice.

These women navigate the complexities of daily life in Congo, balancing their roles as caregivers, breadwinners, and community leaders with unparalleled fortitude.

Their impact extends so far beyond the confines of their households.

Congolese mothers are often at the forefront of grassroots movements, advocating for the rights of women, children & marginalized communities.

They're educators, empowering future generations with knowledge & compassion.

They're peacemakers, fostering dialogue & reconciliation in conflict-affected areas.

They're changemakers, leading by example and inspiring others to join the fight for a better Congo.

In celebrating the power of Congolese mothers, we recognize their vital role in shaping Congo's future & building a more just and equitable society.

Their love, strength & resilience are the driving forces behind positive change in Congo, and their contributions deserve our utmost admiration and support.

Stand in solidarity with Congolese mothers.
A sure way to support the mamas in eastern Congo is to support our fundraiser.

Please SHARE & DONATE!

We have 10 DAYS LEFT to reach our $100k goal to support our partners in DRC who are doing the critical work of healing and rebuilding Congo from the grassroots.

These projects provide refuge for Congolese women who've been displaced in Goma and throughout the eastern region, agro-ecological entrepreneurship opportunities, and empower the mamas with the skills, knowledge, and tools to share their own stories with the world.

So far your donations have helped to support over 300 displaced families and based on the funds raised to date, will aid an additional 10,000 Congolese.
We're less than $80k away from our goal!!

100% of your donations are going to the people of Congo.

Congo will be free 🇨🇩

What did Frantz Fanon think about the Congo 70 years ago?? ⬇️Fanon expressed profound insights into the situation in Con...
08/06/2024

What did Frantz Fanon think about the Congo 70 years ago?? ⬇️
Fanon expressed profound insights into the situation in Congo during the mid-20th century. As a Pan-Africanist and anti-colonial intellectual, Fanon's perspectives on Congo reflected his broader critique of colonialism, imperialism, and the struggle for African liberation.
Fanon recognized Congo as a crucible of colonial oppression and resistance, with the forces of imperialism clashing with the aspirations of African peoples for freedom and self-determination. His observations and analyses of Congo were shaped by his engagement with broader Pan-African struggles and his commitment to decolonization and liberation across the continent.
Fanon reflected on the significance of Congo, viewing it as a microcosm of the broader struggles against colonialism and imperialism, where the fate of all oppressed peoples was intertwined.
When Fanon wrote that "the fate of all of us is at stake in the Congo," he underscored the interconnectedness of anti-colonial struggles and the imperative for solidarity among oppressed peoples worldwide. Congo, with its immense natural wealth and strategic significance, represented--and continues to represent--a battleground where the forces of imperialism sought to maintain dominance and control, while African peoples fought for emancipation and sovereignty.
He emphasized Congo's symbolic importance as a focal point for Pan-African solidarity and resistance against colonial exploitation and oppression. He recognized that the outcome of the struggle in Congo would reverberate across the African continent and beyond, shaping the destiny of all those engaged in the fight against imperialism and injustice.
His words continue to serve as a rallying cry for all those committed to the cause of freedom and self-determination in Africa and beyond.
Stand with Congo and
Congo will be free 🇨🇩
Please DONATE and SHARE the fundraiser tobsupport the grassroots Congolese institutions on the frontlines of change in Congo

Palm oil is actually LIFE ⬇️In disaster relief and humanitarian aid efforts in the DRC, palm oil is a vital resource.Bey...
08/03/2024

Palm oil is actually LIFE ⬇️

In disaster relief and humanitarian aid efforts in the DRC, palm oil is a vital resource.

Beyond its role as a staple in local cuisine, it serves multiple functions crucial for survival and well-being for the people of and around Kisangani in the Congo Basin.

Palm oil is used extensively in cooking, enriching stews and soups with its rich flavor and high energy content.

Especially in a context of relief, palm oil provides essential calories and nutrients like vitamins A and E, helping to combat malnutrition in regions where food scarcity is prevalent.

But its significance goes beyond the kitchen.

Palm oil is also used in traditional medicine for treating skin conditions and healing wounds, and it's a key ingredient in personal care products like soaps, lotions, and shampoos, offering moisturizing benefits.

In households, palm oil is used for making soap and even as fuel for lamps in rural areas.

This versatility makes it an indispensable item in both everyday life and crisis situations.

Our partners of the Basandja Coalition prioritize palm oil because it addresses multiple needs, ensuring that aid is not only useful but also culturally appropriate and locally sourced.

The more we understand how different the reality of relief is from our preconceived notions, the better we can engage in thoughtful and informed solidarity efforts with the people of the Congo.
As we push over these next few days to reach our $100k by August 15 deadline,

we rely more than ever on viewers like you to help support Congolese people.

We still have about $77k to go til we reach our goal 😬

AND JUST 13 DAYS TO REACH IT.

100% of the proceeds go directly to our partners, helping to purchase life-saving medicine, supplies, food, shelters, and more to address the growing crisis in Kisangani.

If you don't have the capacity, we understand. We still appreciate everything you've done so far 🙏🏾💯

But if you do have it in your heart, will you rise to the challenge with us?

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Please keep DONATING and SHARING.

If you can host a fundraiser in your community, PLEASE DO IT.

If you can fundraise from your family, PLEASE DO IT.

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Gratitude ⬇️to our friends at  for the recognizing the Genocost and commemorating the victims of the holocaust in Congo ...
08/02/2024

Gratitude ⬇️

to our friends at for the recognizing the Genocost and commemorating the victims of the holocaust in Congo through this post. Follow to stay plugged into their specific actions around the holocaust and genocides in DRC.

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Commemorating the Congolese Genocide: Honoring the lives lost and acknowledging the resilience and strength of survivors. This day is a crucial reminder of the ongoing struggle against government-complicit exploitation by multinational companies, which continue to profit at the expense of the Congolese people and the violence perpetrated by the armed rebel groups wreaking havoc in the country.

The Congolese people deserve freedom and liberation from imperialist, neo-colonial powers. They have the right to their natural resources, their bodies and livelihoods. We must demand their justice.

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⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️**graphic recounting of SA and ☠**This story is no easier to share than the last one..And the next ...
08/01/2024

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️

**graphic recounting of SA and ☠**

This story is no easier to share than the last one..

And the next one will be still more difficult.

But it's just as necessary.

It's all too easy for a survivor's humanity to be lost in discussions of the vast statistics endemic to the largest holocaust in modern times.

Maman Nyota is a real person, abused by real people.

Her husband is real. Her family.

The violence committed against her and her family was sponsored fundamentally by govts and corporations thousands of miles away.

And it was done so they could profit off this phone that you're reading this on.
Each of the stories we share here (one before this and one more coming) highlight specific characteristics of the strategy of using r**e as a weapon of war.

In Nyota's case, the threat of sexual assault was aimed at her.

And her husband was selected to perpetrate the act.

The tactic of taking one you love and trust and subverting that,

Turning a sacred bond on its head, on a whim.

And per this story, the penalty for keeping anything sacred is death.

The ripple effects of this dynamic underscore how thoroughly divisive the campaign of sexual assault throughout the R**e of Congo has been.

Families forced to harm one another, forced to watch the harm being done, and forced into being harmed by one another.

Whats happening in Congo is FAR MORE INSIDIOUS than an invasion,

Far more than we even expect a brutal war to be.
The entire enterprise is vile and disgusting.

But it's essential to understand.

Nyota is a real person.

Her story is real.

And it's one of hundreds of thousands of experiences with r**e and murder in DRC since 1996.
Supporting this fundraiser is choosing to support survirors of the unimaginable trauma carried within Congolese women and families.

Our partners in Kinshasa are working not just to heal women survivors, but to transform the culture of patriarchy that pervades society.

Please DONATE and please SHARE to sustain this work, empower these women, and play your part in dressing DRC's wounds.

We're $79k away from our $100k goal.

We can reach it together and stand with Congo 🇨🇩

We only have 17 days left!! ⬇️Will you help us reach this goal??Please tell your friends and family about this! This is ...
07/31/2024

We only have 17 days left!! ⬇️

Will you help us reach this goal??

Please tell your friends and family about this!

This is our 2nd to last IG fundraiser for 2024

and as we've mentioned, the main recipients of this fundraiser are our Basandja Coalition partners of the GOVA project.

If you don't already know, GOVA is a network of over 400 autonomous villages in and around Kisangani and Isangi in the rainforest of northeastern Congo.

Kisangani has been inundated this year alone with over 100,000 internally displaced people, fleeing the violence of the Rwandan-backed M23.

If you saw the Live we did yesterday with Samuel Yagase, you know that the people of Kisangani are facing a number of crises, from devastating floods and water-borne illness, to medical care to treat victims of the violence.

The violence is exacerbated by bad actors within the region seizing the resource-rich land around Kisangani territory by displacing the residents.
As we push over these next few days to reach our $100k by August 15 deadline,

we rely more than ever on viewers like you to help support Congolese people.

We still have about $80k to go til we reach our goal 😬

and 100% of the proceeds go directly to our partners, helping to purchase life-saving medicine, supplies, food, shelters, and more to address the crisis in Kisangani.

If you don't have the capacity, we understand. We still appreciate everything you've done so far 🙏🏾💯

But if you do have it in your heart, will you rise to the challenge with us?

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Please keep DONATING and SHARING.

If you can host a fundraiser in your community, PLEASE DO IT.

If you can fundraise from your family, PLEASE DO IT.

If you don't know where to start and want to reach out to us for ideas, PLEASE DO IT (at FreeCongo.org)

It's critical that we reach this deadline in the next 17 days.

Accountability 🍎⬇️We demand accountability from our governments and corporationsbecause we understand that Congo's liber...
07/30/2024

Accountability 🍎⬇️

We demand accountability from our governments and corporations

because we understand that Congo's liberation can't be achieved without a check on the standards to which Western institutions hold themselves,

and to which we hold our own institutions.
Hold Big Tech accountable.

Hold Western governments accountable.

Take action at FREECONGO.org
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More from the protest on Saturday outside the Apple Store in London against violence and r**e committed against women and children fuelled by greed for Congo’s mineral resources used for manufacturing smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles.

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The only way to BREAK THE SILENCE ⬇️around what is happening in Congo is to make some noise.A holocaust has been taking ...
07/30/2024

The only way to BREAK THE SILENCE ⬇️

around what is happening in Congo is to make some noise.

A holocaust has been taking place in the DRC for almost 30 years now, and for much of that time Congolese people have been suffering and dying in the silence of global apathy and ignorance.
What we've been seeing within this past year are cracks forming in the soundproof booth that governments, corporations, and private actors have been keeping the crisis in the Congo in for all this time.

The silence benefits those who extract from the land and exploit the people to reap massive personal profits from the Congo's vast wealth.

And in this silence, Congolese people are left wanting for basic necessities, while the land is devastated.
Your sharing, your engagement, your care, your learning, your taking action,

all of these things are cracking the booth and helping to make the voices of Congolese people heard across the globe.

YOU are making the difference that we need to see a free Congo
Keep that up 🙏🏾

Congo will be free 🇨🇩


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Join the fight against child labor in the DRC!Let's give Congolese kids the chance to live a normal childhood. Your supp...
07/29/2024

Join the fight against child labor in the DRC!

Let's give Congolese kids the chance to live a normal childhood. Your support can make a world of difference.

Donate today to help provide education and opportunities for these children.

Also, visit FREECONGO.org to send a letter to your legislators urging them to take action against child labor in DRC.

Together, we can help create a brighter future for the children of the DRC. 🌍

THE WAR NEVER ENDED... ⬇️This conflict will never make sense if we never take the timeto learn about the history, about ...
07/28/2024

THE WAR NEVER ENDED... ⬇️

This conflict will never make sense if we never take the time

to learn about the history, about the roots of the modern holocaust in Congo.

This series breifly covered the history of the conflict from 1994 to the present day.

Its helpful to know how the Rwandan Genocide played a role, without reducing this to "ethnic conflict."

It's helpful to know that the UN has been involved without actually "keeping peace" in the region.

It's helpful to know that even though the war ended, the violence never stopped.

That even though national armies like Rwanda and Uganda signed the peace accord, they then outsourced their invasions of Congo to rebel militias.

It helpful to know the connections between these rebel groups, the countries that fund them, their role in displacing people and setting up mines, and the multinational corporations that move in to reap the profits 📈 from untold destruction.
Its helpful to know how things began, because when we know that they began, we can see clearer that they can end.

The causes of the conflict in Congo are not ethnic. They're not minerals. They're not genetic.

The holocaust in Congo is political--

Political conflict namely between Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and their Western allies.

And political problems demand political, diplomatic solutions.

There's no military solution to a political problem.
As you go thru these posts, please ask questions on things you don't understand!

It's helpful to us to know what's clear and what's been left unsaid, and what to cover next.

But just as important, do your own critical research. Don't wait for us to give you the answers.

The answers are not difficult to find!
Your continued support in spreading awareness of the situation in Congo and in supporting grassroots institutions in Congo is crucial.

Every dollar contributes to the realization of a brighter future for DRC.

Every new person who knows how to contribute represents countless opportunities for children, women, men, all folk across the country.

Your support matters. It makes a difference.

Congo will be free 🇨🇩

The decisions and actions you make today... ⬇️will have an impact on the futures that are possiblefor Congo and the worl...
07/27/2024

The decisions and actions you make today... ⬇️

will have an impact on the futures that are possible

for Congo and the world at large

for generations to come.

So will your indecisions and inaction.

What choices will you make today?

As we push over these next few days to reach our $100k by August deadline,

we rely more than ever on viewers like you to help support Congolese people.

We still have about $83k to go til we reach our goal 😬

If you don't have the capacity, we understand. We still appreciate everything you've done so far 🙏🏾💯

But if you do have it in your heart, will you rise to the challenge with us?

⬇️

Please keep DONATING and SHARING.

If you can host a fundraiser in your community, PLEASE DO IT.

If you can fundraise from your family, PLEASE DO IT.

If you don't know where to start and want to reach out to us for ideas, PLEASE DO IT (at FreeCongo.org)

It's critical that we reach this deadline in the next 20 days.

Remember this figure ⬇️At least 40,000 children are estimated to be working in mines in the Congo as one of the symptoms...
07/26/2024

Remember this figure ⬇️

At least 40,000 children are estimated to be working in mines in the Congo as one of the symptoms of extreme poverty and systematic oppression.

Friends of the Congo works in partnership with the Child Miner Rescue program ( L’association Comité Afro Européen RDC) in the old Katanga province to rescue children involved in the mining of cobalt and other minerals and help them access quality education.

Together, along with other organizations, we support the families who in 2019 filed a landmark lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Google, and Dell on behalf of the families of 14 children who had died or been seriously injured in cobalt mines.

This is the same lawsuit that was dismissed by a US Appeals court this past March. If you're interested in having an update with attorney Terry Collingsworth, let us know in the comments!

The struggle continues until justice is served!
In the meantime, please continue to support our fundraiser by donating and sharing, understanding that your dollars go toward supporting programs like this one, led and peopled by Congolese folks who are charting a path to the brightest future of Congo through their work.

Congo will be free 🇨🇩

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎Constant Tchandema, Zanele Hlatshwayo
07/25/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Constant Tchandema, Zanele Hlatshwayo

How many times do you need to share this...⬇️before your friends and family understand the role US taxpayers, corporatio...
07/25/2024

How many times do you need to share this...⬇️

before your friends and family understand the role US taxpayers, corporations, and elected officials continue to play in this plan to keep Congo down?
Despite the blatant nature of the invasion, neither Rwanda nor Uganda faced any sanctions from the UN-- explicitly because they had the backing and cover of the United States.

Sound familiar?? It should.

The similarities between Rwanda and Israel as regional strategic assets of the United States have been recognized for decades now by people in the space of Congolese liberation and geopolitics.

Do you have questions?

Ask them in the comments.

What can we help clarify for you?
Please continue to donate, continue to share.

Especially if you're in the United states, your tax dollars have already gone towards manufacturing and purchasing the weapons used to ravage the population of Congo.

This is not to shame anyone. Simply to state a reality.

When we see this figure of six million Congolese dead from this conflict, and we see the SIGNIFICANT role that the US played in enabling these deaths,

We also recognize that THE LEAST we could do is what we can where we are:

DONATE, SHARE the fundraiser, SPREAD AWARENESS of the conflict.

We really thank you all for your continued support 🙏

Congo will be free 🇨🇩

Share this with someone who doesn't know yet ⬇️The batteries of our cell phones, laptops, electric cars, and many other ...
07/25/2024

Share this with someone who doesn't know yet ⬇️

The batteries of our cell phones, laptops, electric cars, and many other devices require a rare mineral called cobalt. This is a very precious mineral, with over 70% of world production originating in the Congo. Extreme poverty means that working in the mines is a necessity for some Congolese families, who are left with no choice but to send their children to work.

The children are found in the hundreds between the ages of 6 and 17 years old working in the mines, some working for at least 12 hours a day without protective equipment in deep underground shafts around 10 meters long, which they have dug themselves. Other children work on the surface, also without protective gear, collecting minerals that they find, sifting rocks and mine residue, sorting the minerals and then washing them to prepare them for transport.

They are only paid 1 or 2 dollars a day and are exposed to many risks, for example: loss of schooling, fatal mine collapses, injuries caused by accidents, mercury poisoning and illnesses such as lung infections. Parents and authorities feel challenged by this phenomenon but cannot find a solution due to limits of the appropriate means.
Visit FREECONGO.org (or donate right here!) to support the work of our partners of the Basandja Coalition.

This work includes childhood education and leadership initiatives and our digital clubhouse for rescued child miners.

  should go beyond being just a hashtag ⬇️it needs the collective efforts of impassioned citizens worldwide to bring abo...
07/25/2024

should go beyond being just a hashtag ⬇️

it needs the collective efforts of impassioned citizens worldwide to bring about meaningful change to the entire African continent, with the Congo at its core. Oppression is global, and so must be our fight for justice. Stand with Congo and join the movement at FreeCongo.org.

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Why is the Congolese government so...⬇️poorly equipped to bring about the liberation that Congo needs?? We hear somethin...
07/24/2024

Why is the Congolese government so...⬇️

poorly equipped to bring about the liberation that Congo needs??

We hear something like this question a lot: "where is the Congolese government in all this? Why aren't they doing anything?"

A major part of this problem is that for centuries, Western powers have have co-opted, undermined, and sabotaged the capacity for truly self-determined rulership of Congolese people by Congolese people.

For ex: in1885 Belgium's King Leopold II was "given” the territory now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo by a council of European States who only sought to exploit Congo. Then known as the "Congo Free State," the territory was treated as the private property of Leopold--his backyard. This included the vast mineral and agricultural resources of the land as well as her people.

Leopold brutally ruled over the Congo Free State until 1908 or so, when the country of Belgium took over leadership. Belgium's leadership was not fundamentally more humane or liberating than Leopold's was. Belgium's focus was the same as Leopold's--resource extraction in the present and ensuring resource extraction in the future.

When Congo was on the cusp of Independence in 1960, Belgium and the United States conspired to have Patrice Lumumba (first democratically elected prime minister of DRC) deposed and assassinated. In 1965 the US installed Joseph Mobutu as the dictator of Congo, specifically to advance the interests of Western states and corporations above the interests of Congolese people.

This trend has continued to this day with Congolese politicians and government officials often acting shamelessly in the prioritized interests of the West instead of in the best interests of the 90 million citizens of DRC.

In the face of change and loyalty to Congolese people the government is paralyzed by cowardice and greed.

This is why it's so crucially important to support communities and organizations on the ground, who are doing the work to sustain themselves as best they can and to grow their capacity to sustain.
You can support FOTC in our solidarity with communities on the ground in DRC by visiting Donating to and Sharing this fundraiser.

He lived this truth until the very end ⬇️Patrice Lumumba lived his life understanding that he would need to pass the tor...
07/24/2024

He lived this truth until the very end ⬇️

Patrice Lumumba lived his life understanding that he would need to pass the torch he carried on to future generations, and that the example he set would model how the torch must be carried.

The torch was one the kept the hope of freedom and progress alive for a free Congo and a free Africa.

It's the fire of life itself.

He called for solidarity amongst the Congolese people,

while recognizing that Congo's liberation would necessarily involve the contributions of the global community to the struggle of Congolese organizers and torch-bearers.
Are you one who will carry Lumumba's torch?
Visit FREECONGO.ORG to take action today.

Support this fundraiser by donating and or sharing to help us reach our $300k goal by August.

And keep talking about Congo.

This is required reading on Congo ⬇️Part of what makes the conflict in Congo so complex is our Western ignorance of a lo...
07/23/2024

This is required reading on Congo ⬇️

Part of what makes the conflict in Congo so complex is our Western ignorance of a lot of basic regional African history.
Of all Congo's close neighbors, Rwanda is perhaps THE most important one to understand when it comes to the holocaust in DRC.

This is because Rwanda plays a very similar role in Africa for the US as 🇮🇱 plays in the Middle East for the US.

Trying to comprehend the conflict in the Congo without understanding Rwanda’s role, is like trying to grasp occupied 🇵🇸 without understanding who is occupying 🇵🇸.

Share this post to educate your friends, families, loved ones on the holocaust in the Congo.

And as you go through this, it's worth thinking about the many parallels to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. What will history say about this current moment in 30 years?

What future horrors can be prevented by taking action to end the holocaust today?
During the colonial era the minority Tutsi population held dominant positions of power over the masses of Hutu in Rwanda, even though Hutu represented the ethnic majority in Rwanda.

In the wake of colonization & Rwanda's independence in 1962, the Hutus regained control of Rwanda's government. Over the decades from the 1960s up through the 1990s, the ethnic tensions that Belgium had cultivated and exacerbated in the colonial era continued to bubble up.

Anti-Tutsi propaganda spread through various media outlets, demonizing the Tutsis, depicting them as enemies of the state. Extremist groups, like the Interahamwe militia, were formed, promoting hatred & violence against Tutsis.

On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi’s President Cyprien Ntaryamira–both Hutus–was shot down. Suspecting that Tutsis committed this act, the camel's back was broken. This event triggered the Rwandan Genocide we know today, serving as a catalyst for the extermination of Tutsis & other Rwandans by the Hutu-dominated government.

Systematic & coordinated violence erupted across Rwanda. Mass killings, r**es & atrocities were carried out using machetes, guns & other weapons.

Part two addresses the US role in all this.

You've probably never even thought of this ⬇️Microscopes are actually essential equipment for medical personnel, particu...
07/22/2024

You've probably never even thought of this ⬇️

Microscopes are actually essential equipment for medical personnel, particularly in disease-vulnerable areas such as the rainforests in the heart of the Congo, where our partners of the GOVA project do their relief- and community-building work.

Most obviously, microscopes enable the precise identification of various pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites.

In regions where diseases like malaria, sleeping sickness, and intestinal parasites are prevalent, accurate diagnosis is critical for effective treatment.

Early and correct diagnosis can significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with these diseases, and microscopes are crucial in effecting these accurate diagnoses.

With accurate diagnostic capabilities, healthcare providers can administer the appropriate treatments more swiftly and accurately.

This also reduces the reliance on presumptive treatment, which may not always be effective and can lead to drug resistance.

Microscopes also help facilitate high-quality, ongoing research and data collection on local diseases and health conditions.

Training local healthcare workers in the use of microscopes and diagnostic techniques empowers communities to manage their health more independently.

Ultimately, healthy communities are better able to address the needs of their constituents!

By reducing the burden of disease through accurate diagnosis and treatment, microscopes contribute to the overall development of the region.
These are just a few of the ways in which microscopes can help our partners in GOVA, in Kisangani and Isangi, and throughout the country.

A lot of times, people have a hard time visualizing exactly how their dollars will help folks on the ground,

so here's a glimpse into the potential impact of a mere $100 dollars.

GOVA has specifically requested microscopes among the many resources they'd need to address the increasingly-disastrous flooding throughout Isangi.
Your support of this organization (GOVA) has already saved lives in the past.

Do you have it in you to keep the love alive?

Congo will be free 🇨🇩

07/20/2024

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