Support small busness to 250 refugee women in DRC

Now we have one Group of Village Association for Loan and Credit in Kalemie City

In March 2026 we organized capacity building to 20 young people among them 7 refugees, 7 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and 6 young people from the host communities. They were capacitate in the creation and management of the group, business tips, making an association and women’s rights, this took us four days. This was made possible through the funding from Children’s Rights Innovation Fund and will grant starting capital to the 20 young people who were trained.

We believe that enabling IDPs and refugees to get involved in livelihood activities is one among the best approaches in order to increase their protection space. DRC has better opportunities for people to live on their own rather than depending always on relief aid over the years which even does no longer exist currently.

Our priorities will remain capacity building and offering starting capital to refugees and IDPs in order to get involved in livelihood activities so that they can respond to their basic needs.

Kalemie City and its surrounding hosts thousands of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who do not have access to relief aid and who are living together with host communities who are also too poor because they were also in Camps in the past and are just returning back home.

Expanding services to Internally Displaced Women in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province.  

With the ongoing war in Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo, many people both Congolese and refugees moved to Kalemie City in Tanganyika Province where some are living in Camps and others in urban areas.

One among the challenges is that all the war victims have no access to relief aid, because in some cases many international relief aid organizations left because of the United States of America freezing the aid, and the few in ground mainly from the United Nations (UN) have no support to the war victims at all. On the other hand grass root organizations which are part of the communities and which could been doing the great work have no access to funding.

Since this year started, we observed the reduction of funding activities to our projects even through this online campaign, we do not get many people to help. However we have not yet abandoned what we believe, we continue struggling with the war victims in Kalemie especially women involved in Small Generating Activities and other livelihood activities.

While women are involved in various small activities some men are involved in agriculture. However they are facing many challenges which we are solving every day in order to create a conducing environment for them to exist.

Even if we have not yet given them financial support, we have mobilized the business community to work directly with these women, we have also managed to organize these women into two groups in order to become more reliable to the business communities. And as per now all these members of the two groups are able to go to town, get things from the business people, go and sell and then come later and pay the money.