Skills development to Refugees and IDPs in DRCongo

Empowering refugees to develop through their skills and capacity building

We are shifting from the relief aid to economic development activities which promote more the dignity of the persons and makes refugees more independent from the relief aid. Refugees come with skills, knowledge, talents and ability to learn new things which can help them and increase their protection space.

Through the financial grant from Children’s Rights Innovation Fund, we have trained 20 refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Kalemie on how to get involved in loans and credit through their association. At the same time, now with funding from COHERE we have started a pilot project focusing on Agriculture among refugees and IDPs in Kalemie City, Tanganyika Province.

While in Kinshasa efforts are being put in place to bring facilitate the organization of refugees, we are both involved in meetings and trainings which will help refugees to develop and start earning money through their own efforts.

However we are confronted to the lack of funding, most of our projects in GlobalGiving are facing a challenge to raise the necessary funds and this has negatively affected our activities.

The fact is that as refugee move, they also move with skills and talents to develop in order to facilitate their local integration and reduce their dependent on relief aid.

We have also embarked on skills development and helping refugees to acquire new skills in order to integrate the developing world. This is one of our computer training to refugee leaders in Uvira City, South Kivu Province the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This Computer Training is the very first initiative that has existed to refugees in the whole DRC, and yet we have only two Laptops which are offering training to many people. On top of that we intend to also involve them in extra computer trainings and make it a source of income to these refugees, this center should also be a space for refugees to access Internet, can easily print and photocopy their documents but also can write their various documents in order to communicate.