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Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Children fill buckets with clean water from tanks installed in Hombo, eastern D.R. Congo. Photo courtesy: N. Radin.

A nation reeling from decades of conflict and neglect, D.R. Congo experiences routine outbreaks of severe malnutrition that threaten thousands of lives. Action Against Hunger is building the capacity of local health systems to tackle this deadly condition. In 2010 alone in D.R. Congo we trained almost 4,000 public health workers and equipped 476 treatment centers, ensuring that 42,000 severely malnourished people—the vast majority of them children—received life-saving care.

Map of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Global Hunger Index 
Extremely Alarming
Population 
66 million
Malnutrition in Children under 5 Years Old 
28.2% in 2007
Beneficiaries 
92,038 in 2011
Impact  
42,000 children were saved from deadly malnutrition through ACF's life-saving nutrition programs in D.R. Congo in 2010.

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Credit: Jana Asenbrennerova Slideshow: Cholera Prevention in D.R. Congo March 15, 2013 Current Events
Without a doubt, the key to cholera prevention is clean water. That’s why Action Against Hunger’s teams in South Kivu Province, in eastern D.R. Congo, make providing access to it their priority. This month, noted photographer Jana Asenbrennerova set out to capture our cholera prevention efforts through her lens. In the images below, you’ll see our work in action....  Read
Nan Dale DRC A Spirit of Sharing, Alive and Well in D.R. Congo February 4, 2013 Staff Members
A brief note from a place called Popokapaka, a town only 120 miles east of Kinshasa but a 12 hour drive away. The road to this town of some 16,000 people alternates between wavy ruts of deep sand or red clay, frequent water obstacles and twists and turns through impossibly small passages, some a mile long....  Read
Niko in DRC Nico: The Story of One Child’s Survival in D.R. Congo January 29, 2013 Impact
Nico, a young boy from a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was too weak to walk and drifted in and out of consciousness when his mother Mboyito Masola rushed him to the nearest hospital to be treated for severe acute malnutrition. After six weeks of treatment, Nico was still unable to move and Mboyito feared the worst, “I told the doctor to be honest with me if he thought Nico would die,” she said....  Read
An ACF beneficiary in DRC. Crisis Mounts in DRC: 200,000 Displaced in Past 10 Days November 27, 2012 Current Events
Imagine fleeing violence in your home city and settling in a camp for displaced citizens. If that fate isn’t difficult enough, imagine the area around the camp then being seized by members of a rebel group, forcing you back, homeless, to your city of origin where there is no power and virtually no access to water. This scenario isn’t a bad dream. It’s the reality being faced by residents who originally hail from Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....  Read
Gedeon Kalenga, watering a community co-operative field in Masi Manimba, DRC. Photograph: Russell Watkins/DFID Sowing the Seeds of a Better Future in D.R. Congo October 16, 2012 Impact
On World Food Day, we want to take a moment to highlight an amazing example of a community coming together and rising above the difficulties it faces. The town of Masi Manimba is 250 miles from the capital city of Kinshasa in the DRC, and until recently, acute malnutrition was rampant throughout the town. British aid agency DFID sent an Action Against Hunger emergency team to work in the region for three months, and our team stayed on an additional 8 months....  Read

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