odasov activities

The global objective is to contribute to an improvement of the social fibre of the community of Walungu primarily and of the whole province of South Kivu, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo generally.

 

The methodology followed will helpfully be adopted throughout the country.

Assistance will be given to the needy on several fronts: medical, educational, psycho-social to rehabilitate them socially and ensure their care for a year, and follow up for 3 years after that.

The project is equally strongly focused on the education of both the population at large and the government.

 

Specific actions

 

  • Build and fit-out new centres to accommodate orphans as well as equipped them as necessary.
  • Train educators and social workers
  • Organise seminars about orphans and street kids issues
  • Organise visit to existing centres in neighbouring countries.
  • Set up a farm and a cooperative for farming products
  • Identify the needy
  • Receive identified youths and provide them with food, clothes and medication if needed and enrolled them in school
  • Build and fit-out a training / apprenticeship centre equipped for bakery, carpentry, bricklaying and brick kiln, sewing for the youths.
  • Set-tup a series of rotating loan of goats to 500 families in order for them to acquire financial independence
  • Educate women and young girls about responsibility and prevention against Aids.
  • Counsel women and young girls who have suffered from rape and assault to help them re-enter society

 

B.  Beneficiaries

 

  • Orphans and street kids
  • Trainers and counsellors from both the public and private sector.

 

 

Where street kids are concerned, insecurity, violence, exploitation and abuse of all kind are the main characteristics of their life.

Violence comes from the police whose role it is to maintain law and order.

Young females fall into prostitution, with resulting pregnancies leading to dangerous abortions and a variety of sexually transmitted diseases.

Sexually transmitted diseases and drugs are two themes systematically addressed by the social workers.