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Helping seven people and their families to relocate from Kalehe to Goma and Bukavu

The survivors of Kalehe flooding are still left alone to their misery in IDP Camps in Kalehe, among them 7 families opted to leave the camp in Kalehe in order to relocate to Bukavu in South Kivu and Goma in North Kivu. Among them 4 families moved to Goma and three families moved to Bukavu where they are now renting houses. We believe these seven familes can now start a new life, which life of fear and uncertainty is over, our attention should now be on their economic recovery.

We helped these families with information on how to get houses, facilitated their transport, supported their rent and contributed towards their feeding.

The four families in Goma have been also integrated in our other groups and they are encouraged to get other services at our offices in Goma, including joining our activities and other groups for their integration. Those who moved to Bukavu apart from contributing to their expenses we have not yet managed to follow-up their situation because we are limited in terms of funding.

We opted to support relocation as our first priority because those living in Kalehe IDP Camps are at high risk of a land-slide which can also kill more other people, as you may recall a heavy wind came last year and blew down all the houses in that camps, but also a fire broke a consumed so many houses, and the land on which they are living is just a private land, which is just a temporal stay. Efforts for advocacy to the government to provide land for the survivors have not yield fruits, with these challenges we believe that the relocation towards other places where people can start a new life is among the best approaches.

This is also in line with the project to empower the survivors economically so that they can independently explore better options in long term solutions, as we observed the relationship between vulnerability and poverty, actually all those who could afford to rent a house somewhere left Kahele, generally those who are still there are the poor. We believe that once the victims are economically stable they will be able to relocate to better places by themselves and that is why we still need your support.