DRC Joint Response
We are responding to the humanitarian needs of communities affected by protracted crises (internally displaced persons, returnees and vulnerable host families). We provide seeds and agricultural tools, direct cash to households and work with households to reduce their vulnerability through technical training on good agricultural practices and their support in the implementation of Self-Help Groups in order to strengthen their self-learning skills in the Masisi and Fizi health zones. Through WASH programmes at primary schools and in the communities, we work to improve sanitation facilities and access to clean drinking water.
Timeline: 2024 – 2026
Sectors of intervention: WASH, FSL, Protection
Location: Masisi, Fizi (North and South Kivu)
Implementing partners: Help Channel Congo, ADED and other organizations
Donor: Dutch Relief Alliance
Kids@Risk
Kids@Risk is a child-centred, community-based child protection programme that aims to build safety, resilience, well-being, and respect for children’s rights. This programme is introduced to help ensure that children living in volatile areas are safe, resilient, their well-being is improved, and their rights are respected.
Sectors of intervention are:
- Family reunification and transitional care for unaccompanied or separated children
- Strengthening parental capacities
- Safe spaces and psychosocial support for children.
Timeline: 2024 – 2026
Location: Masisi and Goma
Partners: implemented in close cooperation with various government services
Donor: Private funds and Emergency Fund
Emergency Response Eastern DRC – TUMAINI
This Disaster Response, implemented in cooperation with Medair, is a humanitarian programme, addressing the needs of vulnerable people in Kayoti, Kibirizi and Kayna in North and South Kivu. The programme aims to treat the causes of the violation of children’s rights, providing a psychological support for them, among others.
Timeline: 2025 – 2026
Area of intervention: Kayoti, Kibirizi and Kayna
Implementing partners: Medair
Donor: USAid with Medair
Facilitation of inclusive education
Timeline:
Objective: promoting equitable access to education in a safe and protective learning environment for crisis-affected children
Location: Katoyi and Masisi, North-Kivu
Implementing partner: Unicef
In this programme, we focus on promoting equitable access to education in a safe and protective learning environment for crisis-affected children (girls and boys) and reduce overcrowding in schools that have taken in displaced children. We also facilitate access to basic social services for vulnerable children aged 0 to 17, by strengthening referral mechanisms in a protective environment and resilience mechanisms for children and/or victims of protection in schools and the community. To support and facilitate access by children affected by humanitarian crises to protection services and inclusive, relevant quality education, Help a Child, in collaboration with community protection structures (DIVAS and EPST), proposes the What’s Up approach.
Tunafasi
Timeline: 2022 – 2024
Objective: disability prevention and community based Rehabilitation interventions
Location: Nyiragongo, North-Kivu
Implementing partner: ADED
Donor:
The mission of the project is to create a disability-inclusive society that provides autonomy and equal opportunities for children and youths with disabilities and their communities through the integration of the CBR program into the state system, with government and community partnerships and contributions.
By this programme, we improve the quality of life of children and youths with disabilities and reduce birth defects, maternal, neonatal and child mortalities through a strengthened and accountable public system. Tunafasi means: we all have a place in Swahili.