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:
Construction of 6 classrooms for the MHCD Polytechnic School (Secondary School)
Every year we have more than 1200 students studying at the MHCD Polytechnic School. Most of the classes have 80 to 100 students. With the construction of 6 new classrooms, we will be able to significantly reduce the number of students in each class. This programme will help us to modernise the school. The students will contribute to the development and progress of the school and other MHCD projects.
Auto-Bus
MHCD has a 50-seater bus in Adelaide which needs to be shipped to Luvungi, DRC. The bus will be used for the journey between Uvira-Bukavu-Bujumbura. This bus service will help local passengers and will also help the women who have small businesses to travel to Bukavu and Bujumbura to purchase the goods they need to sell. We intend to charge a low bus fare. The women will therefore make a higher profit, and this will help them to support their families and businesses. The profit from the bus fares will be used to finance MHCD
Midwifery School
We plan to build 4 classrooms, a technical room and an office. The construction of the extra buildings at the Midwifery School will allow the school to enrol more students. The funds from the students who are able to pay for tuition will support the school and also pay for tuition for students from poor families who cannot afford the school fees.
Modernisation of the Luvungi Hospital
We want to build a clinic with private rooms; build good toilets; construct two buildings to house Physiotherapy and Internal Medicine departments and construct walkways at the hospital to protect patients from the rain and sun. We will also add more equipment for the Ophthalmology department, Dentistry department and we plan to have a community Pharmacy that will provide medication for Outpatient and other MHCD clinics. The modernisation of the Luvungi hospital will help us raise funds that will help MHCD to
