Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo

Update Watch the Zoom recording of the April 18 reunion and presentation by Colette and Greg Ram. The page also includes a brief slide show about The Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo. When Our 2026 RPCV virtual reunion on Zoom will be on April 18, 2026 starting at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Registration If you have been receiving our newsletters, you are already on The Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo mailing list and will receive by the end of March an email with a link to register

Country News 'You take what you can and run’: families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps. Read the full Guardian article . ‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved? Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the c

RPCV Congo 2025 Capital Campaign Recipients Thanks to many generous donors in this group, we raised a total of $9,000 in our 2025 Capital Campaign. We were able to donate monies to Reve Kandale, Stand Proud, Saidiana and Days for Girls. Please attend the Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo April 18, 2026 Member Reunion to hear much more about Reve Kandale! For a year-to-year accounting of income and expenses go to the Financials page . Grants were paid out as follows: $3,000 SA

Country News We endeavor to provide links to news that might be more difficult to find. Tastier Than They Look From NPR : KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — They're tastier than they look. Edible insects in the form of wriggling maggots or hairy caterpillars are both delicacy and staple in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Massive Trenches Massive trenches are swallowing homes across the DRC Ebola Care at Modern Treatment Center From the World Health Organization

RPCV Congo capital campaign starts! Our launch of the 2025 Capital Campaign has begun! This allows us to continue to support NGOs who are doing needed work in DRC. We have a generous anonymous giver who has given us a goal to match. All donations may be done through our website using the same link that you use to renew your annual membership. We accept credit or debit card or PayPal donations. We are always on the look-out for new NGOs in DRC who we can support with you

Country News. We endeavor to provide links to news that might be more difficult to find. DRC-Rwanda peace deal: Prospects for lasting peace The Brookings Institute held a discussion on August 7th: The DRC-Rwanda peace deal: Prospects for lasting peace. The guests were Erica Barks-Ruggles, formed ambassador to Rwanda, Fred Bauma and Jason Stearns (one of our previous speakers). They discuss the peace deal and the hurdles and challenges ahead. Please visit this link to bring

This observational documentary chronicles a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas from extinction...

SAVE THE DATE! Our 2025 RPCV virtual reunion will be on April 26. Our guest speaker will be Stuart Reid, author of The Lumumba Plot. As...

We are more than a month into our Campaign now. We wanted to share that we have an anonymous donor who will match all donations up to...

DR Congo's first female PM, Judith Suminwa takes oath of office . In the East African, June 12, 2024 'There's magic, there's mythology,...

Would you like to be interviewed for a podcast? We in the Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo received the following email from Christinah...

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination. Watch on YouTube a book discussion with the author, Stuart...

What: RPCV Virtual Reunion - John Dunlop - Guest Speaker When: April 27, 2024 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET Where: Online via Zoom - (see below...

Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since...

In February 2024, Peter Kaestner beat out the competition to document his 10,000th bird species "On Feb. 9, Peter Kaestner stood in the...

Jim Herne has kindly collected and shared a trove of DRC/ Zaire YouTube videos that may be of interest to this group. They are sorted...

Born a Sin in Africa: Belgium’s Lost Children. Beth Duff-Brown, a member of our board who served in Kamponde, Kasai Occidental, from...

My Path to the Peace Corps By Jim Herne RPCV Zaire, 1971-73 In the fall of 1968, I was a senior in college and like many of my classmates...