Since 2001, a number of projects have been carried out to help women become financially self-sufficient, to provide basic schooling for children, to offer vocational training in useful trades to former child soldiers and other school drop-outs who are in short supply locally, and to help farmers become self-sufficient in food.
Thanks in particular to vocational training in construction trades, Shabunda is changing. Solid brick houses with tiled roofs are gradually replacing fragile mud huts with roofs made of straw and palm branches. In Shabunda, Mutanga Community Radio allows all segments of the population to participate in debates and contribute their ideas.
In this isolated territory, without easily accessible internet connection or telephone services, radio is the communication tool par excellence for sending messages to people living in villages far from the centre of Shabunda. In Kalima, in the Pangi territory, an entire population can now benefit from affordable sources of animal protein (fish ponds and small livestock breeding units).
Alliance Kivu projects
- Implementation of a system of child sponsorship system in schools in Shabunda, Kalima, Kasongo, Bukavu et Kinshasa
- Renovation of Yuyu primary school (Shabunda)
- Creation of a local community radio station: Radio Mutanga (Shabunda)
- Creation of vocational training centres: bricklaying, carpentry, brick-making and tile-making (Shabunda)
- Creation of a centre for the exploitation and demonstration of agro-pastoral activities (Shabunda-Kabakita)
- Creation of a social hairdressing salon (Shabunda)
- Relaunching agriculture (Shabunda)
- Installation of a manioc grinder (Shabunda and Kalima)
- Craft soap-making workshop (Shabunda and Kalima)
- Rehabilitation of 18 fish ponds (Kalima)
- Installation of a palm oil production unit (Kalima)
- Exploitation of a rice field and installation of a paddy husking machine (Kalima)
- Opening of a mixed boarding school (Kasongo)
- Exploitation of a rice field (Kalima)