Restore 500 Kahengera Flood Victims in Kalemie DRC

Report on the situation of the flood victims in Kahengele – Kalemie DRCongo

Kahengele village is one among the areas affected by the flooding in Kalemie alongside Kamuko, Dave, Camps Joseph, Kamukolobondo among others. Floods have displaced thousands of people and as the raining season draws near, we expect more challenges.

The particularity of Kahengele is that this village is occupied by vulnerable communities among them refugees from Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania, who in most cases do not attract the attention of the political leaders.

Even if we do not have funding to solve the challenges communities are facing we have done the following:

One community meeting with the survivors in order to alert them to be prepared enough and avoid risks during the raining season which is starting in September. This meeting helped us to share with the population some safety strategies including the necessity to shift for those who can do so.

Awareness among actors of the Civil Society and the need to involve them to raise the situation of the flood victims, and because of this two Civil Society Structures have joined our advocacy. Two meetings have been organized in order to call upon Civil Society Actors for action and now Kahengele flood victims have been involved in the advocacy plan of the Civil Society.

And lastly we have organiozed separate meetings with the following provincial authorities: A representative of the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Director of the Ministry of Plan, the Special Advisor of the Minister of Social Affairs and the Minister of Education. We facilitated the Cholera vaccination among the survivors and we have continued to share with their representatives about hygiene habits.