Ensure Kimbilio children eat as conflict continues

Hi. Thank you so much for your financial support for Kimbilio's work with children forced to live on the streets of Lubumbashi in the DRC. In particular, your support has enabled the staff team of carers to be able to afford to buy sufficient quantities of food to feed these children, even though the costs have risen sharply. With its low level of food production, the DRC is reliant on imports. The price of flour is rising due to shortages in neighbouring Zambia, which provides the DRC with most of its flour. 

In 2024, we saw an average of 38 boys and nine girls visit the Day Centre in Lubumbashi every day that it was open and, in addition to providing the children with a good meal, the staff team gave medical assistance as the children often sustain knocks and bruises in the rough world of the streets. It is sad to see how young some of the children are - often of junior school age and so vulnerable on the streets. The work to identify the family of each of these children is a vital part of our work, so that we can negotiate the safe return of the child to a family member.

Thabk you for your support

Thank you so much for your financial support for the Kimbilio Project to ensure the street children can be fed as food costs rise. The cost of maize, which is essential in the preparation of the meals for the children, has risen significantly and your support enables Kimbilio to continue to purchase the sacks of maize required.

Children forced to live on the streets in the City of Lubumbashi try to survive on scraps of food from the market. The lack of nourishment means that the children are vulnerable to sickness, so this Project to enable Kimbilio to continue to feed these street children is to vital to the survival of these young lives.