Welcome on the new website of Ndako ya Biso

 

HISTORICAL

The Chemin Neuf Community is a catholic ecumenical community born in France in 1973.

The Chemin Neuf Community came to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 2003.

The archbishop of Kinshasa gave them the parish of Saint Christine, near the roundabout Ngaba, a very important popular and commercial place in the South of the city.

The Community discovered directly a great number of street children. The local population don’t like them: they are seen as a big potential of violence and robbery. At the beginning,  no organization was working with them on this place.

In the year 2004, we made a study to know their life and their problems in our suburb and we went to visit other organizations working with street children in Kinshasa, some with more than 10 years of experience.

In December 2004, we begun our own project and in September 2005, we rent a house for the project (100$/a month) in our popular suburb. When the children began to come, we asked them: “what name we should give to our centre?” And they suggested the name of “Ndako ya biso”, in lingala, the local language, that is to say:”Our House”. We felt in love with this name.

 

Ndako ya biso is now a local NGO in Kinshasa, with an official agreement of the government of DRC.

 

SITUATION OF KINSHASA

Kinshasa becomes one of the biggest city of Africa with 9 millions inhabitants. But poverty is everywhere. After years of mismanagement, civil war and corruption, it is very difficult to live and to find a job in Kinshasa. In a research made in 2004, Unicef numbered more than 15.000 street children, but today many people speak about 25.000 street children in Kinshasa.

 

 

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