MHCD B4H BICYCLES FOR HEALTH PROJECT
MHCD RDC and Dr. Luc MULIMBALIMBA are delighted to inform you that we have received a 40-foot container full of bicycles from Bicycles for Humanity Perth Australia. The container contained 350 bicycles of various models. When the container arrived in Luvungi, we opened a workshop where our technicians assembled the bikes. After assembling the bikes, we proceeded with the distribution. We started with the MHCD staff, including doctors, nurses and midwives. We then distributed to the primary and secondary school teachers at MHCD Luvungi and Sange, to the community health workers and traditional midwives in the various villages of Uvira Territory. The good news is that these bikes are helping the teachers, doctors, nurses and midwives to get to work on time. In the past, they came to work on foot, which was a big problem for them, but now they use bikes to get to work. The bikes also help them with household chores, such as fetching water from the river, going out to the fields to cultivate, and even going to the market to buy food. As far as the community health workers and traditional midwives are concerned, these bikes help them to visit the patients especially women and children, visit pregnant women and distribute immunization to the different villages. The bikes for health and development have contributed a great deal to the socio-economic and health development of the various communities in the Territory of Uvira.
After distributing to MHCD staff, we also distributed to women carrying heavy loads to their back and head. These women suffer a lot when carrying food to sell at the market. They carry more than 50 kg on their heads and backs, which causes a lot of gynaecological illnesses, lower back pain, headaches and chronic migraines. To solve these problems, we have also distributed bicycles to a number of women from different villages in the Uvira Territory. Those who have been lucky enough to receive the bicycles no longer carry heavy loads on their backs or heads. They testified and said that receiving these bikes was a great relief and a gift that they had just received in their lives, and they will never forget this commendable gesture on the part of the MHCD DRC and Bicycles for Humanity Perth Australia. They really thank MHCD and B4H Australia for supporting them with free bicycles that changed their lives. They also told us that bicycles will help them to reduce poverty in their families and communities.
Finally, we distributed the bikes to the pastors of Bethesda Ministries International (BMI) RDC who help to fight poverty in the various villages and participate in the socio-economic and spiritual development of the communities.
We distributed 200 bicycles for free and sold 150 for supporting MHCD Projects as a micro-financing programme. The money we got from selling the bicycles helped us to support MHCD project and finalising the construction of the bicycles and mechanic workshop in Luvungi.
Finally, we would like to thank Bicycles for Humanity Perth Australia for supporting us with these bikes, as well as Bethesda Ministries International (BMI), MHCD Australia Support Association, Jenny Weaver and Dr Luc MULIMBALIMBA family, for supporting the transport costs from Australia to the Luvungi/DRC. May God bless you all and we appreciate everything you did, and you are continuing to do for supporting MHCD projects and activities in the DRC.
We would like to inform B4H Perth Australia that we still have many women who need bicycles. even we have students who need the bicycles.
We kindly requesting you to support us with another 40-foot of container of bicycles in this year 2025, so that we can help and assist those women and students who haven’t get bicycles.
We will appreciate to receive a positive response from you.
Luvungi Hope Primary School Luvungi Teachers Receive Bikes.
Sange Dietsch Academy (MHCD Primary School) Teachers receive Bikes from Julie and Jenny.
