Project Report
| 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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Feb 9, 2025
Reuniting Families
By Andrew Mullens | Kimbilio Support
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Back with Mum
Thank you so much for your support for this vital Kimbilio project of reuniting children living on the streets with their families. These young children deserve the love and support of their families and the Kimbilio staff team in Lubumbashi make a priority to talk with the children when they come to the Day Centre to discover the circumstances that have led to these children leaving their home and living on the streets.
Ilness or death of one of the parents can often be a factor as the surviving parent may not be able to support their children. Sometimes, after remarriage, the new parent comes already with children, and there may be too many to support. The Kimbilio team seek to establish contact with the family members and negotiate a return of the child. Sometimes, grandparents or aunts and uncles may take in the children. Often the Kimbilio team may contribute towards school fees and school uniforms and text books to help the familiy. Or provide a sack of grain to help them to feed the returning child.
Thank you again for your generous support.
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