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In rebel-held territory, families displaced by fighting, take refuge in a camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja.
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A woman, left homeless by fighting, threshes beans in a displaced persons camp in the village of Sasha.
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Children displaced by war in the eastern Congo prepare for a soccer game. They live in a displaced persons camp in the village of Sasha.
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A girl displaced by war in the eastern Congo lives in a camp in the village of Sasha, where Action by Churches Together is providing a food security program and other support.
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Women displaced by war in the eastern Congo line up to receive hygiene kits provided by the United Nations in a camp in the village of Sasha.
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A woman, displaced in October, took refuge in a camp in the village of Sasha, where Action by Churches Together is providing a food security program and other support.
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Girls displaced by war in the eastern Congo live in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu.
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A woman displaced by war in the eastern Congo gives her baby a bath in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu.
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Displaced women dig a trench to install a water distribution point in the eastern Congo village of Nzulu, which is hosting hundreds of families left homeless by war by war.
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A girl, displaced in October, took refuge with her family in a Baptist church in the eastern Congo city of Goma.
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A woman, displaced in October, took refuge in a church and adjacent school in the Goma neighborhood of Musawato, where she plays with one of her children.
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Families displaced in October 2008 by fighting between the forces of rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese government took refuge in a camp in the village of Sasha.
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A girl displaced by fighting between forces of rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese government took refuge in a church and adjacent school in the Goma neighborhood of Musawato.
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A woman in the eastern Congo displaced by fighting between rebels and government forces. Verronica Kanane, 75, took refuge in a displaced persons camp set up on a lava flow in the village of Nzulu.
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Zacharia and David pass the time at an orphanage in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Maria Buira's family opened their doors to 18 people that had fled the fighting from Masisi.
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Congolese children, some orphaned or separated from their family after being displaced by conflict, find shelter at a community center in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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As reports trickled in of people slowly returning to their homes, following the first democratic elections in more than 40 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), violence still flared in the east of the country, where government troops and rebels continued a grinding war. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced for nearly a decade after fleeing the conflict that has paralysed much of the country since 1998, and now, with people slowly returning home, it is a first and small step in the recovery of a country that has been mired in a humanitarian crisis for so long, and one that cannot simply be dismissed as ‘over’.
By combining their efforts, ACT members distributed food and non-food items, mosquito nets, blankets, temporary shelter materials and agricultural tools. Food items included rice, corn flour, beans, salt, cooking oil and dried fish combined with kitchen kits. Members also improved access to water, rehabilitated five health posts and conducted awareness-raising sessions on HIV and AIDS for at-risk communities.
ACT members based in Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- BOAD - Ecumenical Office for Support to Development
- Church of Christ in Congo (ECC)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Congo (EELCO)
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