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Dorothee
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| 05:25 PM Jan 14 2022

Dorothee

Germany

When I took the bus yesterday the bus driver had his radio on. I don’t know which channel this was, but a news reporter reported about a refugee camp in Rhoe (Congo): 35.000 children and another 40.000 adults are kept there, but don’t get enough food, water or things they need for hygiene – like even just an ordinary toilet. sewage water openly flows through the place where they sleep and eat. To protect the refugees from terrorists and such this camp is located to an area that can only be reached by helicopter. This however also makes it difficult to provide them with anything.

| 03:19 PM Nov 28 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The magazine provided by the Catholic aid organisation ‘missio’ now had a whole article dedicated to a Catholic nun who along with 57 orphaned (lost their parents in the civil war or have parents so traumatized they can’t take care of their children any longer) girls lives in a building called ‘House of Hope’ which is located to Dungu (Congo). She even organized the building of a hospital and a school in this village – both of which are already done. As for the girls she takes care of she offers them an apprenticeship as a seamstresss or a cook. Also she makes sure that the babies and infants she takes care of receive a special milk – especially made for human babies. In a developing country like Congo this isn’t even common practice.

| 08:31 AM Nov 07 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Suedwestpresse’ says that just now there is a trial against some WHO-workers who as it seems sexually abused adult and even minor people in Congo they were actually supposed to help. Alas the number of perpetrators may even be higher than just these men on charge. Also it isn’t said that those who came forward with their complaint were the only victims.

| 04:17 PM Sep 18 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Die Zeit’ says that the Catholic aid-organisation ‘missio’ encourages people to donate their mobile phones to organisations that actually recycle mobile phones for the following reasons:
>Some metals like gold are very rare and often produced in a way that harms nature or people or both. In some countries for example children are forced to work in diamond mines and in other places natives are chased off their own land to build mines. In these mines they use toxic chemicals to produce gold, silver etc. They don’t mind if these toxic chemicals leak through to ground water. Everytime however we recycle metals or diamonds from old mobile phones it obviously isn’t necessary to mine for said material.
>Some material found in mobile phones can’t be recycled. However any serious organisation would make sure that these get eliminated in an environmentally-friendly way with no human beings being harmed in any way.
>Some organisations like ‘missio’ donate money to a good cause for every single mobile phone you donate to them.
Organisations like these – that collect old mobile phones to recycle material – may even exist where you live. All it takes is a little research.

| 05:41 PM May 17 2020

Dorothee

Germany

‘Domradio’ says that the Roman-Catholic aid-organisation ‘Misereor’. currently has a project running in Congo. In several parts of Congo they provided hospitals and doctors with light by solar energy. Not only can they treat their patients better now, but also theft, robbery and other crimes have become rare in and around these places. After all in an illuminated area chances are much higher that somebody may see and identify you than they are in a dark alley. Thus less people are scared of getting to a doctor and thus more people receive professional help. Anyway the project is still running so maybe even more doctors and hospitals in Congo will profit from this idea.

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