outreach

Germaine Tuamba, D.R. Congo

From Congo. Founder and director of a government institution Centre of Accompaniment of Children of parents without Work. I founded it in 2002. In 2003, I discovered the charism of Daniel Comboni, such as Save Africa with Africa, or human promotion. This idea of Africa with Africa has touched me, especially in light of the political situation. I was encouraged by this idea. The youth in Congo are abandoned and disorganized. I was mostly interested in promoting youth work for girls through evangelization, and human promotion. Our aim was to protect the young unmarried mothers. We teach these girls job skills for achieving economic independence. We take care of both mother and child, especially in Goma, and education for the children is a priority. In the slum area, there is no water or power. We teach the kids the gospel of charity, which is the soul of development. We also provide health care for kids.

Dieudonné Likambo, D.R.Congo

Congolese. Married with two children. I am an economist. I work at an NGO of the Belgians in the field of security. I write books for children, and didactic material about AIDS. In the Diocese I work for the Pontifical Work of Holy Childhood. As a CLM, I am the general coordinator of the LM groups in Congo: Colamique, it is a cenacle of missionary prayer. It was born in the parish of St. Augustine in Kinshasa 9 years ago. We do our missionary animation work through three missionary committees. We are present in four parishes in Kinshasa, and also four more parishes in the interior parts of Congo. The movement has three committees: Comboni Charism, to spread the spirit of Comboni in the parish. Through this committee we organize missionary animation in the parishes. During the seasons of the religious calendar, the holidays, the feast days, the day of sending missionaries, we sensitize the people to missionary awareness, civil education, the involvement of the Christians in politics. In the second committee, the committee of Communication, we collaborate with the magazine Afriquespoir, the work of sensitization in the parishes, journalists working on the radio, and maintaining the internet website. The third commission is of Charitable Works to search for those who really suffer, and we do not need to “leave” in order to find the mission…it is in our place.