Urgent Relief Aid to war survivors in east DRCongo

Struggling sometimes alone and with limited funds to address the humanitarian crisis in Tanganyika Province and in Kalemie city in particular

Since February 2025, the humanitarian situation in this city deteriorated because of the influx of war victims from Kivu, the city and the province was not prepared at all to handle this new challenge up to now we remain the only local initiative calling upon all actors to get involved in order to solve the problem.

After managing to contain Cholera which was done later yet it had claimed lives of so many people in Kalemie, other urgent needs are also coming up. Hunger is now taking lives of the war victims alongside curable diseases which are not managed up to now. Cases of malnutrition among vulnerable women and children are alarming now, we are now approaching the raining season which is likely to see the rise of Cholera cases again and the war victims have no shelters.

We have engaged the media to report and now the situation is being reported by the local media, we have engaged the survivors to speak up and show the situation and now at least we can hear some during the interviews with the media, and attending meetings were they present the situation in their camps.

We have engaged the Department in charge of humanitarian affairs and together have agreed on the necessity to hold a round-table focusing on political actors in the province and now we are talking to the Central Government especially the department in-charge of reparation of the victims.  

Among the camps at least now, Kikongo in Katanika II is shortly receiving some form of relief aid such as access to water, food, public toilets, shelters and mobile clinic through the support from the Belgium Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But all the other three remaining camps have no hope at all.

Let us mention that the situation can be managed and we are able to make the necessary impact if we are supported financially. So far local leaders are willing to provide the land where camps should be constructed.

We need to mobilize the local communities in order to show more solidarity, the local leaders (cultural leaders, religious leaders, the Civil Society, the local leaders, opinion leaders, the media, government institutions, political leaders, the private sectors) among others for humanitarian interventions and once this is done, we shall be able to see the desired change.

Such activities needs field work and meetings, dialogues, workshops in order to change the attitudes and mindset of people, but at the same time intervene directly in order to save the situation. On this note we humbly thank COHERE for their support and mobilization around the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo through online engagements and fundraising activities.

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Our urgent relief aid is focused on the situation in Goma, Bukavu, Uvira, Burundi and Kalemie

With donations from COHERE we have managed to provide food to some refugee leaders in difficult situation, we have also distributed soap to refugees, IDPs and flood survivors in Uvira in order to fight against Cholera, we have also managed to distribute sugar, salt and hygiene kits to women especially those who gave birth.

The war in both South Kivu and North Kivu completely affected the existing livelihood activities of the most vulnerable people, and on top of that most of international humanitarian organizations left, and people cannot access their gardens because on insecurity.

We remain the only on ground to provide whatever we can, sometimes encouraging people to share the little they have, some helping people with information, sometimes guiding them on what they can do, sometimes changing public perceptions towards the most needy, sometimes counselling. In each situation we are doing a lot that may not be recorded in order to respond.

The situation in Kalemie is now going out of our control because we have not been to respond, but we are happy that we can make the world to know what is happening there through our reports.

You kind find more information about the situation in Kalemie through this link:

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