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Act women foundation report 2010
Democratic Republic of Congo
War, hunger and disease have killed more than five million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 1998. One child in every five dies before reaching their fifth birthday. To address the law our concern are women and children,we need to understand situation of congo
“It’s impossible to overstate how desperate the situation is for children here. We have emergency rates of malnutrition and children living on the streets, orphaned and cause are due to chronic wars, HIV/AIDS and sexual violence. We have over 2 a million children under five dying every year. The government lacks the capacity and inclination to respond. We need international support to turn these figures around.”
In brief
- Sex million people, mostly civilians, have been killed in fighting since 1998; there are 10,000 rapes to date.
- One in five children die before the age of five – a quarter of them before they’re a month old.
- In the next five years, we’ll save the lives of 800,000 children.
- 7 million women shall achieve rights and empowerments
- Conservation of nature and promotion of health risks in women and children
The challenges
Two-thirds of Congolese live in extreme poverty. Even in fertile provinces, as pilot study shows, half of all children are stunted from malnutrition. Two million people are displaced.
The country suffers from corruption, lack of investment and an ineffective government. The worst of the war is over, but the crisis for children remains.
“The DRC is emerging from a terrible war as The support for this transitional time needs to be there, or children die.”
Lack of schools and health facilities for children
What we’ve achieved
It is rare, nearly nonexistent, to find a child who doesn’t have multiple problems – acute malnutrition as well as lack of education, or abuse in the home on top of chronic illness.
That’s why our DRC programme has developed an integrated range of supports – a child might receive regular health check-ups and start school, or be reunified with his or her family and given vocational training. This approach gives us the greatest chance of success with children and their communities.
Through our fragile states project, we have strengthened our emergency response and ability to confront the enormous obstacles of geography, conflict and uncertain funding to help the DRC’s children.
we ended sexual violence against women and children,formation of orphan centre
Child survival
In a country where a fifth of children don’t live to see their fifth birthday and which has one of the world’s poorest health systems, we are saving lives.
In 2009, we provided healthcare to 78,800 children and 9,600 women of reproductive age, and health education to 1.5 million people.
Protection
Many aid agencies work on child protection and sexual violence, but few specifically address the needs of the 45–60% of rape survivors who are under 18.
We work with local organisations to provide medical, health, legal and psycho-social support to the half of rape victims who are children.
In 2010, we helped nearly a thousand abducted and separated children find their families.
Education
Just four years from 2015, the deadline by which countries are committed to providing universal primary education, nearly half of all Congolese children – 3 million – are out of school.
In the first half of 2010, we helped more than 5,000 children start school for the first time, and more than 50,000 children now attend schools in which teachers are trained and have the necessary materials for learning. No good school in remote schools and poor shelters
What’s urgent now
- We’re committed to delivering an ambitious life-saving programme of treatment, vaccinations, skilled health workers and anti-malnutrition measures. Our aim: to save 50,000 lives in seven years.
- By 2011, we’ll help keep 208,000 at-risk children safe from of displacement, separation from their families, sexual violence and military recruitment.
- By the end of 2010 we’ll be providing access to primary education to 20,000 children, half of them girls, and helping 90,000 achieve more in school.
- We’ll help at least 20% of children affected by acute emergencies.
· You can help
Act women foundation report
- In a fertile and agriculturally productive region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, why is it that half of all children are chronically malnourished?
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