By Dieudonne Bisibo | Project leader
Who are we?
The African Great Lakes Consortium is a union of 11 local non-profit organizations working in solidarity to support vulnerable victims of armed conflict and natural disasters. These organizations have taken the initiative to collaborate to contribute to the socio-economic recovery and self-care of vulnerable groups, including orphaned children and women survivors of sexual violence, widows, the disabled, refugees, displaced persons, and flood victims.
Created in Uvira in 2022 following a General Assembly of member non-governmental organizations, CONSORTIUM OF THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION “CORGLA”
Our mission is to contribute to the reconstruction of the broken hearts and lives of victims of armed conflicts in the African Great Lakes region by giving them hope to become themselves, capable of working to take care of themselves far from armed conflicts and violence.
Our vision is to live in a peaceful and prosperous Africa.
Our goal is towork in solidarity to support the vulnerable in the African Great Lakes Region (Burundi and DR Congo ) .
The Consortium's areas of intervention are: Peace and Conflict Resolution, Education, Health and Nutrition, Trauma Healing, Youth Promotion, Protection and Food Security.
Location of activities: African Great Lakes Region (DR Congo and Burundi)
Period : 4 months (January, February, March and April 2025).
Table of contents:
1. Project to support education for vulnerable people
The children were supervised at their respective schools, 124 children from the primary, secondary and university schools that we support benefited from school fees, i.e. 100% .
2. Support for the administration
We supported our field teams with internet connection and supervision costs.
3. Security situation in the African Great Lakes Region
We are living in insecurity: the city of Goma has been captured by M23 rebels. This is causing psychosis in Bukavu. This is affecting the business and learning climate in Bukavu.
Although the return of peace remains timid, the security situation in Uvira is gradually returning after a very worrying period of almost a month where we recorded deaths (civilians and soldiers, cases of sexual violence and systematic looting of state offices) after a clash following the tension due to a leadership conflict between the local armed groups known as WAZALENDO and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo "FARDC", as a result of this situation, socio-economic activities were paralyzed, especially schools, mistrust between communities remains perceptible and human rights violations are very worrying.
3. Finance:
Source of funds:GlobalGiving and donation
Total donations: 1207USD
Spent :
Projects 95%
Administration and logistics 5%
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Anyone who expresses an interest in supporting us, making a donation or funding one of our projects can contact us at the following addresses: http://www.copgla.org/
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By Dieudonne Bisibo | Project leader
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