Rotary Club of Vancouver International Service Projects in Africa

1. AFRICA

3. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC) STATISTICS
Population 82 million
Area 2.2 million sq. kms (BC is .9 million)
Location Centre of Sub Saharan Africa
Life expectancy 59
Health Expenditure $32 per capita
Infant Mortality 1 per hundred
GNP per capita $432
Human Development Ranked 176 of 188 on UN’s Index
Population growth rate 3 per cent/year, world’s highest
Natural Resources Every significant mineral, mineral, gold, diamonds and gem stones
Forests Half the world’s Tropical Forest
Water resources The Congo River, it is said, could power all of Africa and part of Europe
Human Resources Education is treasured – a million or more University grads, however
quality of schooling is very poor.

4. RC Vancouver’s partnership with RC Kinshasa Kingabwa,
D.R. Congo:
• Kinshasa is a City Province of 8 million people, most of whom
are extremely poor.
• From 2002-2008, RCV sponsored seven Rotary World Help
Containers – These were distributed to clinics in Kinshasa and
neighbouring provinces.
• 2008-10, Matching Grants: Six Wells providing clean water for
20,000 villagers were drilled, four in a remote district
reachable only by six days of barging up the Congo River. Two
wells provided in neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Kinshasa.

5. Partnerships:
• The building of the relationship between the
International and the Local Host Club, is key to the
success of the project.
• RCV asks partners what they propose undertaking on
which we could collaborate.
• The project is shaped and defined between the Host
and International partner club.

6. Projects now underway:
2015-16; Menkao Village Water and Sanitation
Community of New Road Agricultural Training Centre for Kinshasa
Street Children and Menkao Village Children co-financed by
Community of the New Road. $301,800.
The project entails;
• 260-metre-deep well, water tower, generator and housing
• Men’s and women’s latrines at both the Centre and in the adjacent
village
• Water line to the village
• Hand washing stations, one for each 3 homes
• Training in hygiene and sanitation of the school personnel, the
villagers and in the schools

7. Menako Well Project, D.R.Congo

8. 300 metre deep well

15. Vocational, Literacy and Entrepreneurial Training
for Girls and Unwed Mothers in the D.R. Congo

16. Phase 1 GG: 2014-15 Vocational Training for Girls in 7 Kinshasa Centres
US $60,000
From 7 Centres, 21 women volunteers were trained, of which 14 in advanced
tailoring techniques, 7 upgraded in literacy training and all were given
entrepreneurial training. The seven centres trained 135 girls ending July 2016.
Each of the 7 centres was equipped with materials and four kinds of sewing
machines:
• Hand driven for beginners
• Treadle machines for more advanced students
• Electric machines for the most advanced
• An industrial calibre machine which enables the Centres to be self-sufficient
• A small generator was provided to each centre. (In future, RF is likely to
encourage solar cells; GOC insists on them.)

17. The Rotary Club of Kinshasa, Kingabwa, Teachers and
Students receiving sewing machines, supplies and materials

19. District Governor with Newly Trained Teacher for the
Project

20. Rotarian & Graduate Teacher

21. Rotarian with Graduate Teacher

23. Students Learning to Sew on
Hand Driven Sewing Machines

24. Students Learning on Treadle
Sewing Machines

25. There is an extensive market in Kinshasa for school and
other uniforms as well as fashionable dress and shirts.
• The top student at each centre received a sewing
machine of her own.
• Some graduates will get together and start their own
businesses; others will find jobs in factories, others
may have to repeat.
• All will be literate in the local Lingala language and the
official language, French.
• In the current year, some 145 girls are enrolled.

26. There is an extensive market in Kinshasa for school and
other uniforms as well as fashionable dress and shirts.

27. 2017-18 PHASE 2 - Vocational Training for Girls
Centres in three Congolese cities and towns

30. 2016-17 GG 4.
Rehab and Reinsertion (Training Centre for later-in-life Blind). $95,500
People once productive, the late-in-life blind are relegated to begging in
the streets. The project is providing;
•Both braille and computer equipment and materials to enable training
by the local NGO “Voir avec le Coeur”
•Thirty unsighted persons will be trained at a time in methods that will
help them become self-supporting again.
•Already 95 persons have registered interest.

31. Angkor Hospital for Children
Front Entrance with Vendors

32. ROTARY WORLD HELP NETWORK

37. Delivering the Goods to the Destination Hospital

41. AFRICA

43. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC) STATISTICS
Population 82 million
Area 2.2 million sq.kms (BC is .9 million)
Location Centre of Sub Saharan Africa
Life expectancy 59
Health Expenditure $32 per capita
Infant Mortality 1 per hundred
GNP per capita $432
Human Development Ranked 176 of 188 on UN’s Index
Population growth rate 3 per cent/year, world’s highest
Natural Resources Every significant mineral, mineral, gold, diamonds and gem stones
Forests Half the world’s Tropical Forest
Water resources The Congo River, it is said, could power all of Africa and part of Europe
Human Resources Education is treasured – a million or more University grads, however
quality of schooling is very poor.

44. Menako Well Project, D.R.Congo

45. 300 metre deep well ,

50. Vocational, Literacy and Entrepreneurial Training
for Girls and Unwed Mothers in the D.R. Congo

51. District Governor with a Newly Trained Teacher for the Project

52. Rotarian & Graduate Teacher

53. Rotarian with Graduate Teacher

55. Students Learning to Sew on
Hand Driven Sewing Machines

56. Students Learning on Treadle
Sewing Machines

57. 2017-18 PHASE 2 - Vocational Training for Girls
in three Congolese cities and towns

60. 2016-17 GG 4.
Rehab and Reinsertion (Training Centre for later-in-life Blind). $95,500
People once productive, the late-in-life blind are relegated to begging in
the streets. The project is providing;
•Both braille and computer equipment and materials to enable training
by the local NGO “Voir avec le Coeur”
•Thirty unsighted persons will be trained at a time in methods that will
help them become self-supporting again.
•Already 95 persons have registered interest.

61. Angkor Hospital for Children
Front Entrance with Vendors

62. ROTARY WORLD HELP NETWORK

67. Delivering the Goods to the Destination Hospital