Project Report
| Jan 28, 2026
A Great Year for Reuniting Families
By Andrew Mullens | Kimbilio Support
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Back with Mum
Hi, thank you so much for your financial support for this Kimbilio Project which reunites children living on the streets of Lubumbashi with their families. In 2025, we reunited 112 children - 39 girls and 73 boys with their families. An amazing total as each reuniting is the result of weeks and sometimes months of hard work by the Kimbilio team - locating the child's family, ascertaining the circumstances that led to the child leaving home and deciding whether the child can safely be renited. Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles may be the best people to take in the child if the parents circumstances are not good.
Often, the children may have travelled many miles to the city of Lubumbashi and this makes the task somewhat more challenging. Last year the Kimbilio team reunited children with familes in towns up to 200km away, such as Kolwezi, Kipushi, Kasumbalesa and Fungurume.
Thank you again for supporting this important work
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Oct 5, 2025
A Mission to bring families back together
By Andrew Mullens | Kimbilio Support
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Another street child reunited with their mother
Thank you so much for your financial support for the Kimbilio Project to reunite children living on ther streets with their families. The mission of Kimbilio is to improve the lives of children who are living on the streets in the city of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The best way to achieve this is to locate teach child's family and discover the reasons behind the child leaving the family home. Often this is related to the death of a parent and the inability of the family to be able to support the child going forward. Here Kimbilio can provide an incentive to taking the child back by providing financial assistance in the way of school fees or school uniform and books or by giving a sack of grain.
The process of affecting the re-uniting a child with their family may take several months of careful negotiation and assessment, but the Kimbilio team of carers have a duty of care to each child to ensure that the right decision is made.
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Jun 9, 2025
Back Together
By Andrew Mullens | Kimbilio Support
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Back with Mum
Hi, Thank you so much for your donations to this Kimbilio Project to Reunite Children with their Families. Every child deserves to be brought up in the safety and warmth of their own family.
The Kimbilio team of Carers in Lubumbashi work had to identify the family of each street child who comes to their Day Centre and to establish whether the child can be safely reintegrated with the family. Sometimes, for example, it may be a grandparent or an aunt who is best placed to take the child into their home if the child's parents are unwell or deceased or if they cannot financially support the child any more. The Kimbilio Carers may offer a sack of grain to the family to help them to feed the extra mouth or to pay for school fees, books and uniform.
Locating a child's family and negotiating the child's return may take many months, so often the child will come and live in the Kimbilio short-term house in Lubumbashi where they will a health check up, regular meals and clothing. Your donations help Kimbilio to look after the child from the moment they come to the Day Centre to when they are successfully reintegrated into their family.
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