During the year 2021, despite the difficulties linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, we were able to organize the children’s school activities, supervise them at school and medical level. With the help of host families, the team of volunteers on site, now structured in the form of ‘CED-Kinshasa’, has succeeded in…
We have obtained useful and important financial support for our future development, following the call for projects launched by Wallonie Bruxelles International in 2020. This grant is intended to co-finance the project “Education for global and united citizenship, health and to healthy living, in the service of development, in the…
In addition to the family environment and school support, we realized that health costs related to illnesses and accidents for children and teenagers were not covered. Since 2018, we have structured the management of health expenses (hospitalization and outpatient costs) when the emergency warrants, especially for Boaneige, Ophniel and Daniel,…
Our main objective, on which we rely a lot in the medium term, is the establishment of a permanent residence center, a center to accommodate children and teenagers, by 2019-2020. This center would be a place of security, serenity and evolution, also of interpersonal, intercultural & intergenerational dialogue, privileging the…
These last months were marked by difficulties on the ground certainly, but also by many successes. A real takeoff has taken place for the activities of our association. After a very first fundraising evening in October 2017, we were able to gather financial resources to carry out our actions in…
Following the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016, the Cercle de l’Espoir – Dunia (CED) association was solicited to respond to an absolute emergency: residents of the town of Les Cayes (southwest of Haiti ) realized that the roof of their houses were literally gone. Whole families found themselves…
In March 2016, the association M’Pongo Love, which is conducting field actions in the DRC compatible with the values of the Cercle de l’Espoir – Dunia (CED) association, contacted us to provide emergency assistance to a girl from 13, Emmanuelle, who was suffering from severe malnutrition. She lacked the financial…
In 2015, following continuous exchanges with local actors in poor neighborhoods of Kinshasa in the DRC (see below), the Cercle de l’Espoir – Dunia (CED) association assumed responsibility for funding school supervision for five children. Indeed, too many children do not go to school, mainly for economic and / or…
The project aimed to install a basic photovoltaic power supply (lighting, computer room) for a community school for children and adolescents not attending school, in the popular neighborhood of Limete in Kinshasa. The project was carried out in August 2014 with the help of Energy Assistance, a reference in this…
During the preparations for the first mission to the DRC in 2011 (see Kalamu project), members of the Cercle de l’Espoir – Dunia (CED) association found that in the slums of Kinshasa, a significant number of children and adolescents, mostly orphaned or left to their own devices, suffer from mental…