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There are 2 main lines of action: educational and socio-economic.

Together, they form the core of our mission.

Éducation

Education is the bedrock of all development.

It is therefore the key to building a dignified life. Education is at the heart of our mission to build peace, eradicate poverty and drive sustainable development. We want it to be of high quality, inclusive and equitable for all.

Over the past 30 years, our actions have focused on supporting education for the most vulnerable children and young people in Goma. Historically, this support has taken the form of covering teachers’ salaries, and it continues to do so through the payment of school fees and the granting of scholarships. Our support also includes regular monitoring of the children, their parents and teachers.

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    Children benefit from educational activities funded by EALE annually.

Educational activities embrace the circle of life.

There are many of them:

    • Nursery care,
    • Primary and secondary education,
    • Vocational and technical training,
    • Academic and university training,
    • Education through culture,
    • Education through sport.

These activities are carried out by all the partner projects we support: Agape-Kisany, Fonds Ngangi (FNG), Foyer Culturel de Goma (FCG), Humanité Aide au Développement (HAD), Inuka, Kivu International School (KIS) and Promo Jeune Basket (PJB).

These projects are carried out in close collaboration with families and teachers in order to guarantee quality education and make parents aware of their natural obligations.

Values

Through education, children are taught the values of dignity, hard work, respect, solidarity and self-confidence.

Over 30 years, tens of thousands of children have benefited from schooling or an alternative educational activity. To date, more than 4,000 children a year benefit from educational activities funded by EALE.

Socio-economic

The driving force behind building a dignified life.

Over the last ten years or so, we have stepped up our efforts to support the empowerment of young people and family and community recovery. In this context, the emphasis has been placed on entrepreneurship in all its forms.

Our partner projects have also diversified their socio-economic initiatives: technical training, micro-credits, income-generating activities, solidarity mutual societies (MUSO) and the construction of decent housing are all means of sustainable development.

Young, enthusiastic local teams.

These socio-economic activities are carried out by young, enthusiastic local teams who are fully committed to the objective of making beneficiaries autonomous and responsible.

Mothers are the source of life and the solid foundations of children’s education. They are therefore the primary agents of change and peace. EALE therefore gives priority to supporting mothers in their quest for socio-economic development.

Impact

Examples of our partners' projects.

  • Agape-Kisany puts a hundred embroiderers to work,
  • Fonds Ngangi (FNG) which trains hundreds of young people in digital skills through the Go Innovation project,
  • Foyer Culturel de Goma (FCG) supports young people through training, shows and performances in various cultural disciplines (music, song, dance, spoken arts and cinema) and is the driving force behind the Amani Festival, which attracts tens of thousands of young people every year,
  • Humanisme Aide au Développement (HAD) supports the maintenance and operation of vast community vegetable gardens for the benefit of 2,400 beneficiaries. It trains dozens of girl-mothers in agro-ecology and to date has built more than 700 houses for senior citizens and their orphaned grandchildren (annual report),
  • Inuka supports the community recovery of extremely vulnerable families by providing educational support for their children through schooling, and helping them to become financially independent by monitoring IGAs, MUSOs and economic interest groups (annual report).
  • Kivu International School (KIS), is a school of excellence inaugurated in 2017. With its 400 students, KIS is an example of the high educational standards that contribute to better transmission of knowledge and the well-being of students,
  • Promo Jeune Basket (PJB) annually trains 1,478 young people aged 3 to 24 in the values of sport (basketball) and turns their dreams into reality. More than forty young athletes continue their development in the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia.

The major impacts of our activities include:

    • The exemplary resilience of our beneficiaries,
    • Restoring the dignity of our beneficiaries,
    • Strengthening the capacities of our beneficiaries,
    • Empowerment of our beneficiaries as agents of peace,
    • Exemplary family and community recovery,
    • The emergence of agents of change,
    • Intergenerational dynamics,
    • Breaking down ethnic barriers,
    • Environmental protection,
    • Respect for gender.