Hope For The Nations

Learn more about this Program Program: CHILDREN AFFECTED BY CONFLICT & WAR

Wars have changed: today wars are primarily civil wars and civilians are targets rather than collateral damage. Today many warring groups specifically target women and children in order to spread fear through a population. This has led to a situation in which armed conflict disproportionately affects children.

Children who live in conflict zones or who have been through a war have suffered in many ways and need many different forms of assistance to regain a semblance of normalcy. Although children are extremely resilient, conflict makes children more vulnerable to the effects of their broken environment:

many have lost their family and friends;
many have lost their homes;
their community - and sense of community - was damaged;
Access to health care and education have been disrupted;
many have experienced physical trauma due to injury, illness, lack of nutrition or abuse;
Many have experienced emotional trauma from witnessing violence, losing loved ones, or being abused.

Hope for the Nations is particularly concerned about these children and seeks to address their needs using many different approaches. Explore the different projects that HFTN supports and consider how you can get involved.

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Project
D.R. CONGO : Uvira Hope Academy & Sewing School

The mountains of the eastern Congo form a natural boundary separating Uvira, and particularly Kinshasa, from the rest of the Congo . Tutsi refugees fleeing the conflict zones gathered in this region with few supplies and no access to education.

In this region of the Congo, there are no resources other than what the people themselves can generate or what they receive from the outside. Because of the on-going war in other parts of Congo the government has had difficulty meeting the challenges the people in this area face. It is, in reality ,a forgotten area as far as the government is concerned.

HFTN's response to this need was to finish the building construction, renovate some very old buildings and start a school.

One advantage in Congo is that we are not having to deal with bureaucracy to reach the children in need. We can get to them and provide immediate help. The school situation is desperate in that the children use the same buildings for both primary and secondary school. A large number of the students are also orphans who are being assisted with their basic needs and education.

The primary school operates from 7:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and then the secondary school goes from 1:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.

Our partner organization is Partners in Action (PIA).

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Our partner organization is African Revival Ministries (ARM) International, a NGO based in the United Kingdom and operating in central and western Africa.