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Espoir Goma for Girls Update
As a reminder, Espoir Goma for Girls is one of the organizations that we in Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo support, thanks to your generous donations. Connie went over to DRC for the first time in 1988 with the Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. As she lives in/near Goma, we had asked her for an on-the-ground view of what is happening in her region near Boma. Her email is below. "To give you an idea about Ebola, we were at a wedding yesterday here in Goma. Lots of hug
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Aug 19


ADIK - Update from Danny Magadju
What is ADIK? "The Société Action pour le Développement du Kivu ''ADIK'' in acronym has its office in the territory of Kalehe in South Kivu, DR Congo. Within our company ADIK we supervise young entrepreneurs from Kalehe and Bukavu for technical advice in fish farming. Our mission is to promote human development through capital investments by young people and small agricultural producers." Refer to the ADIK Facebook page. Update from Danny Magadju on July 4. To remind all, we
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Aug 14


Supported Nonprofits - 2025 Capital Campaign
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
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Mar 11


2025 Annual Fundraising Campaign!
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
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Oct 20, 2025


2024 Annual Fundraising Campaign!
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...
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Nov 10, 2024


Successful RPCV Congo Capital Campaign 2023!
Well you did it again! We were able to get the entire $1000 matching donation, we have a total of $5500 to donate to Stand Proud,...
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Jan 22, 2024


2023 Annual Fundraising Campaign!
Our annual Capital campaign has started. Your donations allow us to continue to provide funds to NGOs who are doing good work in DRC. ...
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Nov 26, 2023


2022 Donation Recipients
We collected a total of $2,525 from our 2022 fund-raising campaign, including a matching donation of $1,000. Along with money from dues,...
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Mar 7, 2023


Matching Donation
Giving Tuesday is November 29, 2022. We have an anonymous donor who will match up to $1000 of donations so we encourage you to consider...
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Nov 26, 2022


2022 Annual Fundraising Campaign!
Every year we raise funds so that we can continue to provide meaningful support to NGOs who are doing good work in DRC. In the past, we...
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Nov 14, 2022
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