We lend a hand without creating dependence.
We partner with Congolese professionals leading initiatives that are locally conceived and owned. We help them build their capacity until they no longer need us.
February 14, 2025: The city of Goma is returning to life. Thousands of internally displaced people are still in limbo, unwilling to return home without simple basics like seeds and tools. Most of them will have to walk back, with children and stuff they can carry. Most everyone in Goma is traumatized. Hospitals are overcrowded and running dry on medicines, low staffing levels, and most medical facilities in the outer perimeter of the city are without water.
AGIR-RDC met in person for the first time in two weeks, visited the places where they’ve been working over the past 4 years, have been asked by the Department of Health to help in three hospitals.
Your help is needed now, and all donations are going directly to help the needs listed above.
AGIR interviews people fleeing toward Goma.
What is Twa Weza Shinda?
In May of 2021, Mt. Nyiragongo erupted and quickly displaced more than 50,000 people near Goma, Dr Congo. Our partners, AGIR-RDC, provided local emergency response and were operating on the ground immediately. They created a program and called it Twa Weza Shinda.
Twa Weza Shinda means, “We can succeed again.” It is an integrated approach to treat people’s trauma, provide education and community support, and help people learn skills they need to start again.
In November 2021, armed conflict broke out and the violence persists to this day. The people suffer crushing insecurity and waves of displacement. In June 2023, the UNHCR reported that 6.2 million people were internally displaced by conflict in DR Congo.
Twa Weza Shinda is now in its third year of operation — and growing.
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What makes us different…
Rather than choosing a solution to impose from outside, we identify local leaders who know how to make a difference because they understand their communities — and we help them build their network, capacity, and credibility. We work with programs that are locally conceived, directed, and owned. No one is empowered when an outsider controls their basic needs.
They lead. They own. They change the future of DR Congo.
Our Partners and Programs…
Let us tell you about the people we choose as our partners and the work that they do.
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