Annual Reports
Photos from the Congo, Easter 2023 Kinshasa Francois brings food supplies such as oil, rice etc. to the COLK orphanage which we support from time to time Mabala Acacia seedlings in front of our four new classrooms Students learn how to measure a tree- line for the acacia trees on our field Plateau de Bateke Jean’s Micro Finance Project Jean with sweet potatoes Harvest of sweet potatoes His manioc field First steps of Jean’s Vocational Training Center Building materials for the construction of a CHICKEN COOP. Making bricks and ...
The Last Four Classrooms Our school in Mabala will soon be independent from us! We have already built eight classrooms, but the school needs a total of six classrooms for the agricultural section and six classrooms for the veterinary section. So, we needed four more! With gratitude and vision, the parents of the students took initiative once again and organized the production of thousands of new bricks. The funding of the roof, windows, doors, and cement for the walls, floors and patio came from ADH and ERA CONGO, a company operating in forest conservation in the area. It’s the same company which supported the planting of our school’s palm trees last year. For this school year, we have enrolled 287 students, 194 boys and 93 girls in grades 7 to 12. At the end of this school year, the first 26 students will be able to take their final exams!…
Additional School Building in Mabala After building a well for drinking water for our school by the middle of this year, the parents of our students initiated and supported the making of 10,000 bricks for another school building. In 2018, our school started out with three classrooms each for grade 7 and 8. Each year, we added new grades, and this school year we needed 2 more classrooms for the agricultural and veterinarian section of grade 11. Besides the bricks, we needed wood and corrugated metal sheets for the roof, windows, doors and cement for the protection of the walls against rain as well as for the floors and outside patios. ADH contributed the needed finances to purchase these items and paid the workers. The work went well and now everybody is very thankful for the two new classrooms as well as a new room for the teachers. Thank God,…