Enable former street children to go to University

Thank you very much for your donations to the Kimbilio Project that enables former street children to go to university. Because of your donations, these five young men, who were rescued from life on the streets of Lubumbashi by the Kimbilio team of carers, are having their university tuition fees paid and they have the opportunity to gain the skills that will give them the chance of a very good career.

Everyone deserves the opportunity of a good education, particularly those whose family situations have led to them leaving home and living on the streets.  At the moment, many of the former street children go to the new Kimbilio school. Education is the key to them being able as an adult to get a good job and to be able to support their family. By offering these children the chance to go on to university, Kimbilio is enabling those who wish to pursue their education to degree level the opportunity to do so.

Thank you for your donations for this new Project. We are now supporting five young people that we first met when they were children living on the streets of Lubumbashi. Some of these children had stayed in the Kimbilio homes and others we helped to return to their families. We are paying their university fees so that they may fulfill their dreams by completing their degree courses and so be able to get good careers,

What a journey these young people are on, from living on the streets with little prospect of proper life ahead of them to being at university with the prospect of a good job ahead. We hope to be able to support more children take further education in the coming years.

The students help Kimbilio by volunteering at the Day Centre, where their experiences of being street children enable them to them to help those children arriving at the Day Centre.