| The Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) is located in Central Africa. For over 300 years, its people have been pillaged by war, famine, drought, and disease. From 1999 to 2001, 2.4 million people died due to a civil war. At the war’s end in 2001, every non-Congolese support agency including government relief organizations and religious institutions were absent. From 2001 until early 2003, only the Methodist Church remained. The United Nations returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo in February 2003, and central Congo became a model of how rebirth and rebuilding can slowly bring God’s spirit to villages, towns, and a nation. |
| As of September 1, 2006, the World Health Organization and the American Red Cross estimate that 9.5 million Congolese Children are malnourished and dying. One out of six children is HIV positive. Other pediatric maladies include wide spread cases of chronic malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, elephantitis, and river blindness disease. |
| Today in the North Katanga Province, approximately the size of Oklahoma, 1.2 million children live without parents, relatives, family or friends. The Methodist Abandoned Children and Nutrition Center houses and feeds between 650 and 725 children per day. The children of the Congo are the hope of the Congo. |
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