All stories related to Dem. Rep. of the Congo
DRC: Relief for fire-ravaged villages
Sep 06, 2010
ACT members in the DRC are helping villagers who lost everything in wildfires.
DRC: Women holding things together
Jul 07, 2010
In the eastern DRC, women are holding things together
Call to respect human rights workers
Jun 18, 2010
ACT member Christian Aid calls for an end to attacks on human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC: A shot of good health
Jun 11, 2010
Chlorine injected directly into water supplies protect residents of Goma from potentially deadly cholera
A childhood of war to a future of promise
May 28, 2010
Former child soldiers in the DRC are being rescued from the battle ground
DRC: cleaning up the water, saving lives
May 26, 2010
A small village that hosted three times its number no longer suffers the effects of polluted water.
ACT meets Goma politicians
May 10, 2010
ACT helps fight debt burden in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Christian Aid animation on malaria
Apr 25, 2010
ACT member Christian Aid uses animation against malaria
ACT performance reveals horrors of life for Congolese women
Apr 23, 2010
ACT performance reveals horrors of life for women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
ACT in Dem. Rep. of the Congo
ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.
Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups
Organisations with HQ in Dem. Rep. of the Congo
- Centre Oecuménique pour la Promotion du Monde Rural (COPROMOR)
- Ecumenical Office for Support to Development (BOAD)
- Eglise du Christ au Congo National Office
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Congo
International organisations in Dem. Rep. of the Congo
- Christian Aid
- DanChurchAid
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- ICCO
- Kerk In Actie
- Lutheran World Federation, The
- United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
Organisations funding work in Dem. Rep. of the Congo
- Bread for All
- Bread for the World
- Diakonie, Austria
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- Lutheran World Relief
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Presbyterian World Service & Development
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The
- Solidarité Protestante
- United Church of Canada
- United Church of Zambia
About Dem. Rep. of the Congo
- Population: 66 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Kinshasa
- Area: 2.34 million sq km (905,354 sq miles)
- Major languages: French, Lingala, Kiswahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba
- Major religions: Christianity, Islam
- Life expectancy: 46 years (men), 49 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Congolese franc = 100 centimes
- Main exports: Diamonds, copper, coffee, cobalt, crude oil
- GNI per capita: US $150 (World Bank, 2008)