ABOUT US 

ABOUT US :

Mission in Health Care and Development (MHCD) is a non-profit organisation based primarily in eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Luvungi centre, Uvira Territory, South Kivu Province, in North Kivu Province we are based in Goma and Nyiragongo Territory. In Katanga Province in Lubumbashi and Kalemie. It is also based in western D.R. Congo in Kinshasa rural in Kinshasa Province, Bas Congo and Bandundu provinces. We also have branches in Bungoma Kenya and Burundi. It was founded by missionary Dr Luc Mulimbalimba Masururu on 12th January; 2005.He received his first medical degree in 2002 in Bukavu DRC and his second degree in Kenya. He is Senior Pastor for Spring of Life Mission Centre D.R.Congo and Australia. Luc Mulimbalimba is married to Delice Marango Mulimbalimba and together they have 5 children. Andre Masururu Mulimbalimba, Elisabeth Nabindu Mulimbalimba, Elaine Victoria Kadetwa Mulimbalimba, Jean Luc Kahindja Mulimbalimba and Susan Stella Mulimbalimba.

MHCD was founded out of Dr Luc’s compassion for the people of Kenya and in his home town of Luvungi in eastern D.R. Congo.  After working in Kenya and coming back to Luvungi in 2006 he was so touched by the plight of the desperately poor and disadvantaged people, particularly women and children that he immediately committed to helping them by providing medical assistance.

MHCD works primarily on the eastern border of DR Congo where from 1996 – 2006 during the “African war” over 5 million people were killed. Many thousands of women were raped, all stock and food was taken or destroyed and communities were devastated.

MHCD provide health care, education, sustainable food and income, and empowerment of the women and communities. It also works to provide infrastructure in schools, health clinics, birthing huts, hospitals and street lighting for improved security. Through containers it provides humanitarian aid in clothes, shoes, blankets, Days 4 Girls packs and Birthing Kits.

Situation of Uvira Territory: 

Uvira territory is located in South Kivu province East of Democratic Republic of Congo. The main activities are agriculture and animal keeping. Their agriculture is majorly subsistence.80% of the population in DRC is unemployed and jobless making life very difficult. Women carry loads of goods on their backs for many kilometres so they can get even a dollar to buy food. Many young girls do extensively hard work to earn a living. All this makes people in DRC to suffer a lot especially children and women. These problems have came about as a result of war that claimed many many lives, at least more than 5 million .Many women and girls were raped and many children remained orphans.

Despite all these problems, Congolese are very hardworking people, they like developing their villages and promoting peace in their area. They have forgotten the bitter experiences and are focusing into the future.

In bringing a solution to this, Dr. Luc Mulimbalimba Masururu had to move from Kenya to DRC to his village called Luvungi so he may start medical and community Development activities for the sake of alleviating poverty in Uvira Territory. When he arrived in Luvungi with his family, he had no possession except for clothes. Together with his wife Delice Marango Mulimbalimba they were able to purchase land and started developing it for community activities. They went through so many challenges but today they have built a 150 beds Hospital, secondary school with more than 1500 students, midwifery and nursing school where the students graduated every year and gone back to the villages to help the community, guest house for accommodation, conference Hall, solar station that gives power to the hospital, installing solar street lights in Luvungi and other villages and centres of Uvira territory and many other activities that are being carried out at MHCD Headquarters every day. Dr. Luc Mulimbalimba managed to turn an extremely deserted land into a town centre. Through MHCD, many separated families were re-joined, hope was restored and communities were able to come together.

Even though Luvungi is more advanced today than it was 10 years back, we still have so many villages where people are still suffering. Many children in those villages go to grass made school rooms with no seats inside and so they are forced to sit on the floor, they do not have health centres and sick people have to walk for many kilometres to reach the closest Health centre. Some villages have insecurity and women and girls are being raped daily, at the same the women have to fend for their families and they do this by carrying loads of goods from one centre to the other on their backs hence going again for many kilometres by foot. People are still suffering so much in DRC and this is why we saw that in the year of 2020-2023, we shall focus on 3 main activities that will help reduce poverty, provide good, cheap and proper healthcare in the villages and fight ignorance.

The activities are: Healthcare, Education and community Development activities. In fighting ignorance and giving good future to the Congolese people, we saw that we shall train the youth on technical skills. We opened a secondary school which is also a polytechnic and it has different sections like tailoring, information technology, mechanics, electricity etc. Each academic year we registered more than 1500 students. Many of them come from poor backgrounds and they do not have any help. We have orphaned and street children, single mothers and Young girls who were raped during war. They cannot afford to pay school fees. This is why we started a program called Luvungi educational Fund so we could see if we could get donors or well-wishers to help them with their education. We do not have enough infrastructures for the school and an example is of the students who had to learn from the MHCD restaurant while standing or seated on the floor during classes. Our vision is to modernise the school by adding 12 classrooms and extra chairs and tables. Many students come to school on an empty stomach due to poverty. They study with so much difficulty even the teachers have the same problem of poverty and attending classes on empty stomach. We thought that we may open a restaurant and canteen for students and teachers that will enable them get even one meal per day.

In promoting Health Care, we sent the Midwifery and nursing students from MHCD Midwifery School into the villages that were most in need. When they arrived there, they opened up small dispensaries. Concerning community development projects, we shall continue with micro financing programs that will be involved with equipping women so they may be independent, birthing kits distribution to expectant women and traditional midwives, installation of solar street lights in the villages for the sake of fighting insecurity and modernising our villages, construction of community markets in villages especially for the women who successfully carried out the previous micro financing projects and small businesses and many other projects that will improve the lives of women and children.

Our Mission:

  • To reduce poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo through community development, health care and education activities.
  • To make our communities a better place to live.
  • To be a Congolese and African organisation that engages communities to eliminate poverty and its causes.
  • To give hope and build self-sufficiency in the DRC communities.

Our Vision:

To see D.R.Congo especially Uvira Territory communities flourishing, independent and empowered.

Work for the integral empowerment of women and the promotion of gender.

Our Goals:

  • Providing good, proper, quality and affordable health care services to vulnerable people living in D.R.Congo especially women and children.
  • Reducing poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

  • Supporting victims of sexual violence and their dependents and fight against sexual violence.

Our motivation:

MHCD is committed to the poor and vulnerable people especially women and children because all of us are created in God’s image. We support and work with people of all cultures, faiths and genders to achieve our vision.

Our objectives:

  • To reduce poverty, provide good, cheap and proper healthcare in the villages and fight ignorance.
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.
  • Making Australian and Congolese together, to share God’s heart for justice, unity, peace, reconciliation in objectives of poverty reduction and uniting different communities who are fight in D.R. Congo.
  • Promoting education and Primary health care in villages and rural areas.
  • Reducing infant mortality rate.
  • To promote agri-business
  • To promote peace and reconciliation among communities living in D.R.Congo.
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.
  • Supporting orphans raped victims and internally displaced person and to create environment that will give them time to discuss their problems and looking the permanent salutations.
  • To fight malnutrition and chronic diseases.
  • Supporting traditional midwives and communities health workers.
  • To improve access to water and sanitation facilities and education
  • To provide innovative and effective educational programs, professional development and fund development services.
  • To provide free education to vulnerable people especially orphans raped victims, street children’s and single mothers.
  • To improve the social condition and quality of life of people with epilepsy and those who care for them.
  • To increase understanding and knowledge of epilepsy.
  • To promote quality development education for empowerment of the local people for enhancing their spiritual and socioeconomic potential and prosperity.
  • To increase the local people’s capacities through knowledge, education and skills for enhancing and shaping their own lives
  • The local farmers promote environment friendly and commercial viable farming methods which ensure practices for sustainability and to gain skills for income generation for improvement of their living conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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