Help build the new Kimbilio Day Centre - Stage 1

Hi, thank you so much for your financial support for this vital Kimbilio Project. The need for a new Day Centre is critical because the current Day Centre in the Cathedral building in Lubumbashi is at full capacity. We are seeing increasing numbers of street children attending the Day Centre with more complex needs, such as drug dependancy, so a building with the facilities for dealing with all the children's needs is important for the work of Kimbilio going forward.

The children living on the streets struggle to get sufficient food and water and so the provision of a meal at the Day Centre is so important to the wellbeing of these children. They also frequently sustain injury or illness and Kimbilio provides medical treatment for their minor injuries and illnesses and hospital treatment for the more serious cases. In addition, the Kimbilio team at the Day Centre seek the background to each child's arrival on the streets and try to reintegrate the child into their wider family.

Hi, thank you so much for your financial support for this vital Kimbilio Project to build a new purpose-built Day Centre in Lubumbashi that will enable Kimbilio to have up to date facilities for caring for children forced to live on the streets. Stage 1 is the ground floor of the new building and will have rooms for food preparation, showers and washing facilities, counselling and medical care. At the moment, we will continue to use the Cathedral building in Lumbumbashi as the Day Centre.

We haven't reached the total that we need to start the building the new Day Centre but we hope to achieve this soon. Ian Harvey, the founding director of Kimbilio, plans to meet with potential builders when he visits the DRC next month.