MHCD is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation whose objectives are to fight poverty, provide good professional and cheap health care services to vulnerable people, and promote education, primary health care, and community development in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since we started our activities, we have managed to carry out several quick-impact projects that have helped the vulnerable populations in different communities in the DRC. After several years of development work, we have gone through both good times and difficult times, which is why we want to change our strategy in 2024. In 2024-2026, we have decided to focus on activities and projects that will help our organisation become self-sufficient and self-financing.
Here are the projects we intend to carry out in 2024:
Liberty Surgical Campaign
Every year, MHCD, in collaboration with Luvungi MHCD Hospital, organizes a medical and surgical campaign. The campaign lasts one to two months. The medical-surgical campaign gives all those who can't afford treatment, especially the poorest of the poor, the chance to receive free and semi-free treatment. Most of the Congolese population especially those in the villages live on less than
Container of Love
Every year, MHCD and MHCDASA send containers to the DRC. These containers usually have medical equipment, chairs and tables for schools, clothes, shoes, sewing machines, days for girls, birthing kits, mattresses, beds, solar panels, solar batteries, computers, etc. These containers have made a significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the MHCD and several villages in the Uvira Territory. MHCD
Bicycles for Health and Development
In the DRC, we don't have good roads, so many women walk several kilometers to till their lands, fetch water from the rivers, or go to the market to sell their goods. The big problem is that they carry heavy loads on their backs and heads (e.g. 20 liters of water, 50kg of food from markets or farms, firewood, timber,
MHCD Solar Farm
MHCD has installed a 100kw solar farm in Luvungi that will supply power to the hospital, schools and other MHCD projects. We will also supply electricity to the community surrounding the MHCD compound as part of our Microfinancing Program. The money received for the power will help us to support the power project itself and also other MHCD projects in the Microfinancing Program. We have successfully installed all solar panels and batteries but we need cables to finally complete the Solar Farm. We need 6000 metres of PV solar Cable:
Solar Kits and Lamps project
We have discovered that in many villages people, especially women, do not have light at night. This lack of lighting has brought, and continues to bring, a lot of problems and accidents in many houses especially in the more rural villages. In 2024, we hope to order 10,000 solar lights and lamps which we will distribute, free of charge, to the poorest people and for a very low purchase price for those able to pay.
Promote agriculture and livestock projects
The support given to the agricultural community, through the Microfinancing Programme, is one of the main projects which has helped reduce poverty in many communities. In 2024, we would like to have an MHCD Agriculture Project that will help us to support the feeding programs at the MHCD schools in Luvungi and Sange. This project would also support MHCD, our Midwifery Students and the locally made Birthing Kits project.
