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Support displaced population in North Kivu

For the past 10 months, we have been supporting the Martin Luther King Group in the Goma region (DRC) to provide practical assistance to people displaced by the war, in particular by distributing food for children.

Join us by making a donation!

Through its regular presence in the Bulengo camps, the Martin Luther King Group aims to show its solidarity with the displaced people.

You can support the group's work on the ground by making a donation.

100% of your donation will go to the action on the ground, and the support is entirely voluntary, both in Europe and on the ground.

Triodos account: BE97 5230 8126 4049 (BIC code: TRIOBEBB) in the name of FieldGood asbl - Communication: "Kivu".

We are calling on you to help forge bonds between the local population and the displaced people.

The Martin Luther King group of local volunteers is active on the ground to provide direct food support and social links to these displaced people.

We support this group, with whom FieldGood's Pascal Martin has built up a close relationship of trust, and who keep us informed every week of developments in the situation and their work in the camps for the displaced.

What is your money supporting?

The group visits the camps twice a month, specifically the Bulengo camp in North Kivu, to provide direct food aid to children and women in great difficulty.

This aid is prioritised for the most vulnerable people, given their limited material resources. The more we can increase these resources, the more the number of people helped will increase.

Another objective is to establish social relationship between the group's volunteers and these people, who are sometimes displaced from faraway villages, so that they can be more included in the host area, which is itself very vulnerable.

How are the people behind this project?

The Martin Luther King Group carries out all concrete actions on site, offering their efforts entirely on a voluntary basis.

In this way, all financial resources are channeled to the direct beneficiaries in the camps.

Our local correspondent, Christophe Muteka, represents the group and leads the action.

How to support our action?

Make a donation to FieldGood asbl, which will pass on 100% of the donation to the volunteer team on the ground to buy the food that is prepared and distributed in the camps.

Triodos account: BE97 5230 8126 4049 (BIC code: TRIOBEBB) in the name of FieldGood asbl - Communication: "Kivu".

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A Smile for street children of Bujumbura

A beautiful project born in Bujumbura to take care of street children and give them opportunities to create a link with society and an opening to the future. The team in Bujumbura calls on FieldGood to give you wings to support it!

Children in street situations are minors whose living and survival environment is the street. Children in street situations are exposed to the dangers of drug addiction, sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse and also labour exploitation. In Burundi, the number of street children is on the rise and is approaching 5,000 in the economic capital.

 

Support this project through the OKPAL fund raising platform

We call on you to build bridges and increase the possibility of choice that children in street situations will have and to offer them protection, to put the child at the centre of the project organisation, to talk to them enough to know their stories, concerns, needs and interests.

To contribute through warm and constructive human relations to the child's own acceptance as a worthy person and subject of rights.

To contribute to their reintegration in their family environment or in an environment that offers them alternative family support.

What does your contribution will support?

Activities for the current phase

1. Expected results
I. Street children in Buyenzi and the city centre benefit from a protective presence on the street.
I.1 The street boarding will help to establish a relationship and have contact with the street children.
I.2 Sensitize the children to come to St. Augustine's Parish in Buyenzi and participate in the activities, 3 times a week.

II. Street children have access to health services, a listening ear and spaces for socialisation and games at the parish.
II.1 Organise activities to welcome street children.
II.2 Develop different activities of play, care, hygiene, cooking & meals, training.
II.3 Counseling/ psychological follow-up to listen to the children and understand their difficulties and worries in order to see how to help them and increase their possibilities of choice.

The ambition is that over 6 months 50 children benefit from a personalised support adapted to their situation. This encompass accessing sport and gaming activities in groups and a support from a psycho-social specialist, access to food, showers and a laundry room as well to basic health care.

Who are the Source of this project?

Since its creation, the Saint Augustin-Buyenzi youth centre has already supported more than 1,000 young people through training, sports competitions, inter-religious exchanges, peace forums and cultural competitions.

The centre also offers a mentoring opportunity for young people who want to engage in voluntary work for the benefit of disadvantaged people such as street children. For young people who like sports, the centre has various karate clubs and a basketball court as well as a football field. The centre also has a library and classrooms, sanitary facilities, showers and community kitchens.

Samuel, Kingsley, Pascal and Yves are at the origin of this project.

Field Good asbl is sponsoring the parish of Saint Augustin in the implementation of this programme in Bujumbura.

It will provide technical support and monitoring of the sponsorships in Europe and financial monitoring of the budgets financed.

A next call for support end 2022 will aim at ...

I. Street children have developed their capacity for choice and reintegration.
I.1 Provide school and literacy activities.
I.2 Offer older children a pathway to discover trades and professional training.

II. The rights of street children are better defended in the community thanks to a study of the socio-demographic characteristics (age, sex, level of education, ethnic group, access to health care, housing conditions, etc.) of street children.
II.1 Organise discussion sessions with the community for the proper reception of street children and their rights.
II.2 Participate in advocacy activities for the coordination of aid to street children at the communal level.

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FairTrade Week

“CHAMP’FAIR” was our very special day as part of the Fair Trade week organized with La Maison Verte et Bleue and Enabel : buy local products rather than those that travel? What are my choices?

We have invited you on October 10th 2020 at the field of Nathalie van den Abeele (lagrangenville.org) growing organic vegetables on living soil.

We have discovered her production process and discussed fair trade with Paolo Costa of the Sicilian consortium Le Galline Felici .

We have had a Council in a circle about “My way to consume goods” facilitated by Hana Amzani and Xavier Angenot (On Spaceship Earth) .

We have benefited from the point of view of Djakarita Bitie of  Ecam (cocoa production in Ivory Coast).

You also had a chance to taste delicious food prepared with what the field offers as well as lemons, tangerines and mango directly from Sicily.

Thanks for your participation in all respect of strict Covid rules running at that time.