Post tagged with congo

  • Climb Up in Charlotte and Save Lives

    October 28th, 200911:41 AM ET
    By Tanya Weaver
    On November 6-7th, the American Foundation for Children with AIDS will host the Climb Up in Charlotte event in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of the foundation's annual Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up charity series. This fundraising program challenges participants to engage in activities such as hiking, climbing, running, and cycling to raise awa...

  • Malaria - A global affordable healthcare crisis

    April 16th, 200907:45 PM ET
    By World Vision staff
    Deux-Anges’s mother and father do not make much more than $20 to $30 dollars per month selling small items such as soap or sugar along the sides of Goma’s roads in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Living in the poorest slum in of the provincial capital, Ndoole Bamyere cannot afford for any of her four children to fall sick. So when Deux-...

  • Aid worker's blog: Providing basic care in DRC

    February 23rd, 200903:52 PM ET
    By World Vision staff
    At the end of last year, in the poorest, most densely-populated slum in Goma, the provincial capital of east DRC, seven poor men and women sat, lay or mingled around a small room in Kahembe Health Center. Between them they owed US$500 for medical treatment. They were not imprisoned, as such, because there were neither bars on the window nor lock o...
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