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Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria is the number one killer of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With your help, NetsforLife® is working to increase knowledge and prevent malaria deaths.

Progress Indicators

  • 161,051
  • 2,280,441
  • 5,648

History

More than 3.5 million Congolese have died from violence, famine or disease resulting from the ethnic tensions and civil war that began in 1994 following the genocide and refugee crises in the Great Lakes Region. The crisis is ongoing: violent outbreaks continue to plague the eastern part of the country and force people to flee their homes.

Areas Impacted

NetsforLife® is working in five districts of the DR Congo: Kalemie, Lubumbashi, Kasumbalesa, and Kapolowe and Katanga.

  • Clergy and church leaders have been trained and have held community-awareness workshops in each district.
  • Since women are the leaders in malaria control in the DR Congo, NetsforLife® has focused on increasing women’s knowledge and leadership capacity. A very successful pilot project in the Lubumbashi district focused on training a core group of women to educate and mobilize community women's groups. This model will be replicated in other districts.
  • A successful baseline study was completed in Katanga, still considered to be in a state of complex emergency due to persistent post-war violence. This study provides much-needed data to guide program implementation so that the greatest impact can be made in this area, which is vulnerable to an outbreak of epidemic malaria.