Bon, j'ai encore corrigé pas mal d'erreur.
Le résultat en-dessous.
Quelqu'un pourreait-il me faire une dernière correction?
Merci.
Claude
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From January 11 to the 1st February 2007, I was in Kinshasa to meet the children of Charity, Robert and all the others, and also... my wife Mamina.
Only one formality could not be finished before my departure: the Mamina's visa. I had therefore to return alone and the Mamina's trip in France will not be possible before several weeks.
This stay was also the occasion for me to confront the reality, a reality of the life in Kinshasa as I could not dread by the intermediary of Internet. If on a material mean, I suffered from heat or malaria, these some comfort problems not ruined this brotherhood, this humanity that I felt by the contact of these Congolese that welcomed me throughout this stay. The fraternity which was reproduced on our old French coins (freedom-equality-fraternity), I never really had lived until this day.
I also was able to note how Congoleses are admirable by their tenacity, their will to leave itself there in one of the most difficult economic environment. Plenty of shops grows by the roads (the term street does not apply really after seen their degradation). The populations learn by themselves as they are able, learn sewing, mechanics, jewelry, and build their mini-enterprise. This begin with a chair and umbrella to a small 12 m2 box. But how to leave itself there differently when factories and big companies are almost nonexistent? The salariat is reduced to a minimal level with a SMIC near 15 Euros a month. Teaching, formations are inaccessible for the majority of the
families.
Then they manage...
To come back to the subject of Charité Plus, I was accomodated like a prince, Robert and some other members dealt with my stay from the beginning until the end, meals, housing, movements... And I never would forget the clamor of the children when the driver deposited me in front of the Charité Plus. A bunch of flowers with a small greeting message read by a child: all that remains engraved in my memory. As the one pronounced to my departure.
They offered me also kindly clothes created by themselves in their sewing workshops. These children can be proud, they manage very well and much french children would not do better while living under the same conditions. (moreover that can apply to the adults too)
These meetings were also the occasion to discuss the organization of the NGO. The urgency is first financial: unpaid rents, no school for some children, fence of the bit to realize, repairing the toilets... There is also all sorts of needs, beds, mattress, medicines, school or teaching equipments...
At the time of a meeting, the guiding committee submitted me the suggestion to create a small medical center that would employ a doctor on partial time. The medical expenses in the near health centers too are raised and the passage of a doctor some hours a week would allow a better one followed medical of the children with an inferior cost. The lack of educational material, a partial schooling, all that returns the task of the teachers testing. These have in fact several tens of children to loads, without sufficient material means, not any books, games, or computers..
The sewing workshops need also sewing machines. I must say that they realize an excellent work.
My wish (as computer technician) would be the creation of a computer workshop. The installation of only one computer would also allow to improve the administrative management of the NGO. An associated video-projecteur would leave to us to envision projection of movies.
The projects are therefore numerous, but all this without financial resources cannot be realized.
My task now returned in France, is thus to look for financing sources and how to improve the management of an NGO that has not even any banking account.
And how also to convey material with few expenses to Kinshasa: books, computers, toys or clothing...
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