The second largest country of Africa, full of paradoxes. On one hand, it is rich in natural resources (including cobalt, copper, coltan, crude oil, diamonds, gold); on the other hand, its inhabitants are among the poorest in the world. For decades, the DRC has been suffering from prolonged conflicts that have led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.
07.04.2023
On Good Friday, we learn to experience death. Exhausted by prolonged starvation, little Gentille’s body had just given up. We did everything we could. This time it was not enough.
We are not the masters of life and death, although our little charges in Congo are resurrected before our eyes every day. It is their resurrection that we strongly believe in. We fight for them with all our strength. There is no other rescue for them within a radius of a few dozen kilometres. The miracle of the transition from near-death to full strength, to regained childhood, to life, is happening because of our excellent team at the Ntamugenga Nutrition Centre and you who support it.
We have lost Gentille. Over the last few days, we have become her closest family. Her death has dealt us a great blow. Please send some good thoughts and prayers today to her family and staff who fought until the end.
Let us do all we can to ensure that death does not win again. Let us fight for the miracle of resurrection for more little patients.
16.09.2024
Globally, hunger is a massive, complex problem. But feeding a child is simple. Joseph could have become another WHO statistic, labeled as one of the children who dies of hunger every five seconds. No one would have known his name or how infectiously he laughs while playing patty-cake with his mom. That he’s brave and […]
04.09.2024
“We’ve got a two-year-old boy from Kabaya,” Sister Agnieszka reports. Even before we see the photo, we already know it will show a child in critical condition. Kabaya is a mountainous area, almost completely cut off from the rest of the world. There is a lack of everything. The fields are mined, making it impossible […]
21.08.2024
It’s extraordinary what people can get used to, even war. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it seems no one remembers what the fight is about anymore. The outcome will not be defined by who is right, but by whoever survives. Sister Agnieszka Gugała, the director of the nutrition center in Ntamugenga, offers us a […]
