Kinshasa, 09 December, 2023 / 8:50 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facilitating “interventions” to thousands of persons displaced by violent conflicts in the Central African nation, who are living in challenging conditions with “enormous” needs.
More than 6.2 million people are displaced across DRC’s Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu and Tanganyika provinces, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
In a Wednesday, December 6 report, SDB officials say they are hosting more than 25,000 at Don Bosco Ngangi, Don Bosco Shasha and other camps in Kanyaruchinya and Bulengo.
“Salesians are working to collaborate with other partners to better coordinate interventions at the local level. Many households in the various camps rely on the assistance of the Salesians, who provide food to displaced families as well as spiritual support,” they say.
The displaced persons are living in challenging conditions in the camps, the SDB members involved in the interventions say, and explain, “Pregnant women, the elderly, people living with disabilities, and widows/widowers are finding it hard to get by in these conditions, having left everything behind in their homelands. The needs are enormous.”
