A countrywide shutdown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to COVID-19 has led to increased fears of starvation. Amani Tom, our longtime partner in the Congo, said that he is “worried that hunger will kill more people than COVID-19.”
That is why, despite the closure of schools, the Jewish World Watch-funded Congo Peace School is keeping its kitchens running around the clock to feed children in the community – many of them orphans and former child soldiers. They depend on the school for their only meal of the day.
We are also providing food supplies, sanitization kits and masks made by a JWW-funded women’s co-op comprised of survivors of gender-based violence. The kits and masks will protect families throughout the South Kivu region of the Congo from the spread of the virus.
Also in the Congo, Jewish World Warch and our incredible partners have secured the release of more than 1,400 children who were being used as child soldiers, laborers and sex slaves by armed groups. Over 500 of these children are currently in our partner’s transit centers because they could not be reintegrated into their families and communities before COVID-19 halted these critical reunification efforts. We are responding to this dire situation with a new grant that provides food supplies, vocational training and personal protective equipment to the children during the countrywide lockdown.
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