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Mungindu Health Zone Program Description:
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Seed of Hope project - Mungindu, DR Congo
Congo is the second biggest country in Africa with a population of 66 million. However, the people in Congo suffer from a cycle of poverty reinforced by decades of bad government and war. In 2009 the annual GDP per person was $160 compared to $45,000 in Canada. The average income was therefore less than $2 per day which is considered by the World Bank as poverty in its most severe form. The life expectancy in 2009 was 48 years whereas in Canada it was 82 years. Infant mortality is presently the highest in the world. But poverty is not solved by throwing money at it. Real transformation occurs only when people, marred by their poverty, realize that they are made in God's image and can be full participants in their own recovery.
To this end, we are following the lead of Congolese expertise and church members who have researched and drafted a health 
and economic project that we are calling Seeds of Hope.
- Health lead: Dr Emery Bewa has a masters in public health earned at the Kinshasa University and has been working as a coordinator for a European health NGO for over fifteen years.
- Agriculture lead: Edgard Kimbau has been working with rural farmers for over ten years. With limited resources he has developed a successful system of organizing villagers into associations and providing them with improved seed and agriculture techniques.
- Financial lead: A group of 30 professionals banded together five years ago to form a saving and loan cooperative which has functioned entirely on its own with its own resources.
- Management lead: John Fumana, an experienced Congolese manager, has been instrumental in networking human resources together
Since the problems in Congo are accentuated in the rural areas, the Seeds of Hope focuses on the rural region of Mungindu just outside the urban center of Kikwit. The Mungindu health district, or zone, has a population of about 120,000, made up of mostly subsistence farmers. .png)
The Seeds of Hope project is directed at economic improvements which will, in the end, result in better quality and more accessible healthcare in the Mungindu health zone.
Sustainability and self-reliance will only be possible if people are truly transformed. The Seeds of Hope is a holistic approach to development involving the local church in providing leadership and guidance as they deal with village needs and issues. In the end it is the spiritual healing of the people's marred identity that will bring true transformation in the community of Mungindu.
Seeds of Hope Project Details |
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Infrastructure: |
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Rebuild hospital building |
$18,000 |
All three hospital buildings rehabilitated |
Rebuild rural clinic |
$3,600 per clinic |
9 clinics renovated |
Establish clean water sources |
$600 per source |
30 water sources through out the zone |
10% has been added into each line to account for special supervision (material transport, building plans, management of funds)costs for this part of the project |
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Operations: |
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Training of health providers - includes public health management, how to follow childhood diseases, blood safety and obstetrics. All 18 clinic nurses will attend multiple sessions over 3 years. |
$8,800 per year |
Improved nursing quality at rural clinics.
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On-site educational coaching and mentoring sustainable supervision in the zone |
$10,300 per year |
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Performance payments for supervisors |
$2,750 per year |
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Equipment, medicine and consumables: |
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Medicine and consumable supply - credit at urban pharmacies and rotating funds will be developed) |
$24,000 per year |
Medicine supply for 3 years and an ongoing rotating fund managed in a sustainable way |
10% has been added into the medicine amount to account for supervision of medicine orders and training for long-term pharmacy management |
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Basic health center kit |
$3,300 per kit |
9 clinics with kits |
Ultrasound (with training) for hospital includes training |
$13,750 |
Adequately equipped hospital
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Hospital equipment (operating light and table, birthing table, other operating room equipment) |
$9,000 |
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Non-medical equipment: |
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Computer kit for health zone office (with batteries) includes training |
$4,300 |
Adequate equipment for ehalth zone supervisors |
Motorcycle (for supervisors) |
$4,600 per bike |
3 motorbikes for supervisors |
Bike (for supervisors) |
$110 per bike |
1 bike for each of 18 clinic |
Fridge (to keep vaccinations) |
$1,650 per unit |
2 fridges for zone office |
Reinforce farming: |
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Organize associations (facilitate production, market products, manage affairs, on-going training, advocacy in-front of local authorities). Funds include training, coaching and 3 years of special supervision. |
$22,000 per year |
12 sustainable agriculture associations created with improved seed and techniques |
Improve cultivation techniques |
$22,000 per year |
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Support associations with improved seed varieties |
$5,500 per year |
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Transport: |
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Acquire 20 tonne vehicle (managed by a truck association) |
$55,000 |
Transport of goods to and from the Mungindu area |
Market training |
$1,650 per year |
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Village financial services: |
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Community awareness of saving cooperatives |
$2,750 |
12 sustainable cooperative banks established |
Training personnel for banks |
$11,000 per year |
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Mentoring |
$6,600 per year |
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Fund support for rotating credit |
$16,500 |
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10 % has been added to all amounts in this budget to pay for the overall administrative costs (supervision, coaching, evaluations). These funds will be administered by AMED, the Congolese group in charge of the Seeds of Hope project |
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