DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE REBUILDING AND REINSTATEMENT- DR
CONGO
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THE HUMANITARIAN ANALYSIS REPORT
“The women and children victim of war in North-Kivu
continue waiting your support please!”
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bienvenuesaasita18@yahoo.fr , ajs.butembo@yahoo.fr
October 2013
Analyzing the DRC
situations
The conflict in the Eastern regions of the country has
a serious impact to the people of North-Kivu region. The wars in this area have
destabilized the whole economy with its impact seeping into other regions. Another huge factor is the mass economic
raping of the countries national resources.
According the UN report, the M23 that is qualified as the Rwandan and
Ugandan rebel movements continue raping the region in which the agenda of
empowering civilians to live peacefully exercising their democratic rights and
sustaining themselves economically and their families has been hijacked by
people with unscrupulous motives with devastating results to the development of
the nation. There are many abuses which have destabilized the country and
caused great distress too many citizens living in these regions in the North,
East and Eastern DRC. Since 1996 until
now, there have been constant reports of mass raping, executions, robbing and
total destruction and brutalization to many villages and their
inhabitants. Here under, you will have
some humanitarian analysis about the situation of Congo DR. See how you can do in order to save life for
many people which are waiting your support to them. If you have any suggestion
about that, do not hesitate to contact us immediately. Thanks a lot.
Vulnerability
to Conflict
It is estimated that multiple raping, destruction,
illegal seizure of property and execution of villagers and rural populations
has contributed to the lack of economic development within the country as a
whole. War criminals that have been identified and linked to atrocities with
evidence have often not been brought to justice and have been allowed to remain
in the country some of whom have continued to terrorize the population. International warrants for war crimes and
criminals in some instances have been issued for several known perpetrators and
have been outstanding for more than a few years, but to date the government has
failed to arrest these criminals and bring them to justice. The resulting
impact of this negligence is that people no longer have faith in the government
to restore justice, peace and safety in the Eastern and North Eastern regions
of DRC.
Women and children have been slaughtered and whole
villages in some regions have been burnt down. The repressiveness of the army
and militant rebel groups means that many are not held to account and there has
been little in the way of International prosecution and interventions with the
government not participating in the reprimanding of criminals. Human rights have been an issue long debated
yet little progression has been made on this front. With war criminals being allowed to stand as
candidates in local elections in areas where they have in the past instilled
fear, been involved and orchestrated raping, looting and effectively
committed/executed orders for mass murdering of civilians.
As a result of this conflict and political failure
most of the population of DRC, continue to live in poverty. Overall 50% of the
nation’s citizens in DRC live below the National Poverty Rate according to
World Bank. Life expectancy has fallen
according to United Nations and World Bank reports in the last thirty years. Indicating
that despite huge increases in aid and medical assistance being provided to DRC
in the last ten years, progress with regards to life expectancy and poverty
alleviation within DRC remains unachievable whilst conflict continues.
Sexual Violence
The recent economic exploitation has also been marred
with war crimes, inclusive of sexually violent acts against women. According to a study in 2011 in the American
Journal of Public Health, the estimated figures were that nearly two million
women have been raped in the DRC during the conflict period within the
projected time frame. Until now, the
women sexual violence equated to approx 430,000 rapes taking place in the
period of a year and that mass raping was widely spread in DRC and not just confined
to conflict areas as was originally suspected. There is 4 out of 10 women which is victim of sexual
violence. Desensitization may have
occurred due to sexual crimes becoming so commonplace and complacency has set
in ignoring the right of women to refuse sexual participation either through
refusal to participate in certain sexual acts or on occasions to refuse any
sexual participation, even within relationships now being ignored and
violated.
Women being disowned due to being raped by external rapists,
by husbands also deterred reporting of rape crimes, so there is reluctance on
the part of the victims of sexual crimes to report them, indicative that the
real figures may be significantly higher. The study also excluded younger
children, older women and males, who have also been raped and attacked so the
true figures of victims of sexual violence could be extremely understated.
According to Amnesty International, Sexual
exploitation in the regions where this has all taken place has also occurred with
reports of women being forced to enter into prostitution in the mines with
girls as young as 12 and 13 years of age being reported to have been forced to
work in the mines as prostitutes in return for food, shelter and clothing. Having been displaced lost their families and
destitute some have had no choice, some have been kidnapped and forced into
this lifestyle and others have been sold into the slavery due to coming from
impoverished homes. They often contract
HIV/Aids and other diseases, get pregnant and then are abandoned.
Dependence on Aid
Dependence on Aid from donors has more than quadrupled
in the last twelve years. Due to the
internal conflict there has been no correlating improvement by reducing poverty
figures, improved school enrollment has risen slightly but completion figures
have not improved significantly in correlation, similarly there is no
improvement to better roads, transport or healthcare on the ground. Part of
this can be blamed on the rebel factions but the government has not helped this
situation by failing to invest much needed resources into the crucial areas and
entering into deals that devalue the nation’s assets.
Social
& Economic Impact
Infant
Mortality Rates
The Democratic Republic of Congo hosts some of the
highest infant mortality rates in the world.
According to the World Health Organization, “six out of ten infants do
not reach their fifth birthdays”. With one of the top ten highest mortality
rates for children up to the age of five in the world DRC is quickly becoming a
huge priority for disaster recovery organizations.
Malnutrition
Rates
Since illegal mining and extraction started land that
was once used for subsistence farming has been looted for mining purposes. Leaving food prices in the regions affected
high and resulting in malnourishment which has affected citizens.
Access
to Water
Recent visitors to DRC witness that even in the
capital water resources are often cut off during the day. Leaving residents unable to wash clothes and
attend to basic hygiene needs. Most people try to buy bottled water as it is
felt that local water supplies are not safe enough to drink without further
treatment. Though when bottle water
supplies are not available many will revert to local supplies however they are
not deemed as safe. In the rural areas
there is little pollution control and companies have been challenged for
poisoning local water supplies. However
these challenges tend to originate from external visitors, journalists and
community stakeholder groups as inadequate monitoring is being carried out by
the government in this respect in the regions affected to deter corporate
abuse.
Medical
Expenditure
According to the Abuja declaration in 2001 African
governments agreed and signed up to a charter committing 15% of government
spending to medical provisions. However,
according to World Bank figures in 2010 the medical expenditure in DRC
continued to fall very short of this percentage mark and only realized 5% of
the government budget.
Educational
Attainment Rates
Literacy figures are unavailable but according to
World Bank in 2010 reports only 59% percent of primary school children
completed that’s almost half the population receiving less than primary school
education. Considering 50% of the population live below the national poverty
line it’s clear to see there is a correlation between school completion rates
and rates of those living in poverty naturally the correlation would indicate
those living poverty were less likely to send and fund their children’s school
attendance and completion feeding into a perpetual cycle of poverty and lack of
educational attendance and attainment. In reality this figure may be slightly
inflated with little information coming from rural areas, children who work and
never register or receive treatment and street children who fall through the
net untracked are unlikely to be projected within these figures and included in
this statistical compilation.
The
L2R organization continue supporting peoples victim of war
particularly women and children:
Do
the same to them please!
L2R (League for people
Rebuilding and Reinstatement)
is a Non Government Organization founded in 2009 by JOHN VULUME in order to
help people living with trauma, against vulnerability and poverty by rebuilding people capacities
and Reinstated them in their communities. Thus, after 25 years each other vulnerable people at the Eastern region of DR
Congo will be recovered and have a
place to play in his own community; after
that, each one will contribute himself in any way for the country rebuilding
and development. Our main vision is to relieve all people from bad situations to the good one by making the evidence on personal potentialities according the community
opportunities. Until now, Two
programs are executed in North-Kivu: TRAUMA-COUNSELING
for healing Trauma wounds with some
humanitarian assistances and ENTERPRENEURSHIP
PROGRAM and scholarship for children Education in order to initiate people
to have the entrepreneurship culture and create enterprise projects.
L2R realizing
his activities under the authorization
N° 5072/130/CG/N.51/2011 and the Regional agreement
N° 01/ 059/CAB/GP-NK/2013
signed by the North Kivu Governor as a juridical personality.
His main office
is based at BUTEMBO, North Kivu, Mususa comune, 94 vutetse quarter in DR Congo.
For further information’s, contact: +243 997492271
and +243 819226287; Email: bienvenuesaasita18@yahoo.fr; or ajs.butembo@yahoo.fr
Some L2R activities
The Orphans and the Children
Caring
Everywhere
in all cities
of the Democratic
Republic of Congo,
there are a serious problem of street
and abandoned children. Since the war in 1996, the DRC country knows the
problem of orphans, street children, and girls’ victim of motherhood and so on.
These children are abandoned to themselves, without any means. They are orphans,
malnourishment and victim of HIV/AIDS. They need your help and want to go at
school not in the streets, not be victim of all bloodthirsty ideologies. They
want to live in a good moral and win they lives. Actually, L2R caring without
any support 120 abandoned children.
About children from the street, L2R continue to
accomplish the diaconal and prophetic mission in order to relieve each one from
the bad situations to the good one. Our wish is to contribute for the street
children transformation and the children challenges. L2R with the with
the support of
volunteers continue to facilitate
the benefactors’ reinstatement by the entrepreneurship training; so that they
will have a basic
education in key
enterprise area up
to a reasonable
standard and provide for themselves and their families in the
future.
According our vision, we are now in process to make
down the Entrepreneurship Training
Centre that we call “CIAP” in short
in order to help children and youth to have a basic education in key enterprise
area. By this, L2R fixes as results according three goals: Training, capacity
building and support. This centre will support firstly children and women in
vulnerability situations.
According the L2R vision based on the ENTERPRISE PROJECTS as the safest way
struggling against poverty and eradicated vulnerability, we are continuing to
recover women victim of sexual abuse as you see this picture. In this case, L2R
in this way wants to: Assist people in poverty
as children and women victim of war to start their own Enterprise
(Business/Social enterprise) either individually or with other benefactors in a
Group or individually; provide each People with a basic education in key
enterprise area up to a reasonable standard; provide each benefactor with a
certificate and training qualification endorsed by a DRC National Institute of
professional preparation (INPP), providing access for them to further education
and equipping them with secure options and educational knowledge; so they can
provide for themselves and their families in the future.
The direct benefactors of this project are children and Women victim of war. They will have a basic education in key
enterprise area. Those benefactors will be assisting to start their own
enterprise projects (social/business enterprise projects) as a small enterprise
producing goods and services and will be accompanying in their business. Each
benefactor completes an applicant form
that it’s help us to know how is our benefactor’s situation. In this case, this
applicant facilitates the L2R volunteers in field.
For this year 2013, L2R had now trained 60 children
and women. But, we have any money to
support their small projects. See what you can do in this case for them.
The Football
and Basketball activities
The sport is best peace vector and therapy or mental relaxation.
Girls and boys can meet together around the ball in view to exchange and research
solutions about their problems. Thus, in the setting to make the sport as
vector of peace, like a therapy, to assure the cohesion between young’s and to
strengthen the peace in particular in the North Kivu province and in the Great
lake region, L2R organize scholars youth
tournament, the relaxation activities. To arrive there, L2R formed various
clubs of young in different districts
with schools in this locality.
Different matches have been organized in city of Goma to see with
youngsters of Gisenyi/Rwanda of which the club of girls took part there.
L2R
perspectives
Sensitization
of the population for the reduction of criminality and the consumption of
drugs;
Multiplication
of the communal monitoring clubs and clubs of youngsters; sporty meeting
organization in view to unite youth to the tour of a ball and to make the sport
as vector of the peace;
Backing
of volunteer capacities on the management of stress, risks and disasters;
Social and economic activities, the school of youth and girls mothers;
Multiplication
of communal resocialization sittings in view of a fast raising of the population
in crisis (social networks) ;
Sensitization
on the Kind and development of women in farming surroundings;
Etc.
Please, support L2R organization
and all these activities
Butembo, 16 th of October
2013
John VULUME, the GS and BIENVENU the
Projects cordinator
