Safe Housing Congo, Democratic Republic of the Project #60883

Build a shelter for the war survivors in DRCongo

by Collective of Youth Organizations for Solidarity in DRCongo (COJESKI/DRC, Coordination of North Kivu

Project Report | Feb 5, 2026
More than 100,000 new people without shelter in Fizi Territory need our urgent action

By Kulihoshi M | National Team Leader

Look at these shelters in one of IDP Camp in Kalem

HUNDRENDS OF WAR VICTIMS ARE WITHOUT HELP

In Fizi Territory, South Kivu Province, various humanitarian actors have established more than 100,000 people who have fled their homes and are now living without help, this is just in FIZI, among, on top of that current more than 25,000 people have moved up to Kalemie City where they are living without help, these are part of the large number of war victims who have been identified as thousands more are living in areas which are hard to reach, sometimes because there is no network, no road, highly controlled by militia groups.

DRC has the highest number of war victims who remain unknown, who are unassisted and who are suffering on their own. The Government remain silent on the situation of war victims inside the country especially those who are not covered by the Cameras.

While some are forced to stay in what they find on the road such as schools, churches, others have tried to build their own temporal shelters using the very only traditional methods, just for them to survive.

Here is once our efforts to appeal upon you for your generosity to provide shelter to these as they wait in dignity for peace in order to return back to their villages.

When it rains, it is a problem as water leaks in

During sunshine the shelters get fire and everthy

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Oct 10, 2025
Now temporal shelters for victims in Katanika

By Kulihoshi M | Coordinator

Jun 22, 2025
FORGOTEN WAR VICTIMS FROM KIVU NOW IN KALEMIE

By Kulihoshi M | Coordinator

Here is what people have made as shelter in Kalemi

We are engaged in three different approaches in order to help the victims in camps in Kalemie City, Tanganyika Province

With the current war in Kivu, we are observing the influx of people from Kivu towards Kalemie, where they are living in camps in deplorable conditions. The Kikongo IDP Camp is the largest in Kalemie now with more than 6,000 people but who are not getting support up to now.

We have engaged in three various activities in order to help them and improve their situation basing on what we are able to do now.

Mobilizing Urgent Relief Aid

We have launched this campaign through GlobalGiving and we have engaged other Congolese of the Diaspora to engage in fundraising in order to help these people. Sifa Foundation owned by Congolese in Canada have picked the interest and has already started a GoFundMe Campaign. We have also engaged with REFRAME/COHERE for urgent interventions, they have also launched a special fundraising campaign for the war victims in DRC.

Sharing information about the situation

We have moved in various places to collect necessary information about the situation of the war victims in most cases living in areas where no one knows about them. We have shared pictures and brief reports on their situation and we remain the only ones who have managed to publish such information. These people are in places where no Camera comes, no journalist comes, no researcher thinks about and no humanitarian organizations visits them. At least with this, we believe that if we fail to act it may not be because we did not know, but because may be of other reasons.

Because of our work of field visits and sharing information, local leaders have been alerted and now the debate in going on, but also local communities in Kalemie are being presented cases and engaged how they can show solidarity with those in need.

Advocating for peace

The lasting solution is to restore peace in Kivu and so that people can go back to their villages, we are happy with the current peace efforts spearhead by the US Administration between DRC and Rwanda, we are also working on other community issues especially the effective management of refugees in DRC which is at the center of violence since 1996 up to now.

We are so concerned that people in all these camps do not have access to relief aid up to now.

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