folyamatban project

Encountering the huge differences in living standard over the globe, more and more people become open to humanitarian assistance every day. Our foundation maintains the College Othniel Grammar and Secondary School and the La Providence Orphenage in Kinshasa, DR Congo for 10 years. The institutions are in the rookery of the city, the students come from especially underpriviliged family background The residents of the orphanage can be called favoured among the 4 million orhans in Congo.
The aim of our foundation is to provide long-term, lasting assistance for African people. We established our institutions with this end in view, because we believe that through knowledge-sharing it is possible to improve the life of not only one child but the whole Congolese society.
Schools in DR Congo are not funded by the state and private schools require such high tutition fee that they are unreachable for most of the families, who often struggle even with paying food and clothing. For these reasons, only 4 out of 10 Congolese children can attend school.
The learning moral also differ from what we know in Europe. Due to the numerous children in one family and the missing financial resources, it is very rare that all the children can go to school at the very same time. It happens quite often that 1-2 children attend the school for a year while the others work or stay at home to help. The next year they change roles. But it must be noted that the education of the boys is mostly seen more important.
Another common phenomanon in poor families is that the children do not always live with their parents but with their relatives from time to time, while the parents try to settle the financial situation. If the crisis lasts longer, the children might wander from relative to relative. The solidarity between families is mutual. But this results in migration, and in big cities the children might have to enroll in different schools after each and every moving.
The foundation requests contribution from the enrolled students for moral reasons and so that the maintenance of the school would be ensured. However, this amount is the quarter of what other schools in Kinshasa generally require. Naturally the foundation can dispense even this financing in extreme situations. Also, we require less and less contribution proportinally depending for how long the child has been studying in the school. The so-called privileged students who stays in pay less for their education and receive other benefits. This system was established to support enduring learning.

Kata Jaksity, Gabriella Jakupcsek and other more than 600 hungarian persons who are already supporting our program: thank you!
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