OUR VISION

 

The Chemin Neuf Community thinks that unity of mankind is central for the work of the Community. But unity of mankind can only be built on the unity of the families. Poverty and social disorganisation are destroying the families in Kinshasa, then the community is searching the  means to help the families to build their unity to save the central place of the children in the family.

The place of the child is not on the street. Street don’t give life to children and don’ help them to grow in their life. But the street help the young to think that loves doesn’t exist and that violence is the only way of life, because they don’t receive love in their life.

CCN believes that love is possible, that all the children, even destroyed by the street, can find trust and love in their life if somebody loves him.

The CCN believes that the best place for a child is his own family, even if there are problems in the family, and that it is important to look for somebody of the extended family who can receives the child, love him and educate him.

The CCN believes that each family can go on a way of better unity if somebody trust the family and helps them on their way.

 

What have we done?

For us, the most import work is to discover the children on the street, to know their history, and to go to search their family to reunify them by somebody of their family:

In 2005, we reunified 46 children in their family, in 2006 68, in 2007 80, in 2008 112 (60% of the children were considered as witch)

At the end of 2008, more than 300 children were still in their family and the 15 educators of our centre go to visit them twice a month, to stabilize them in their family.

Our centre receives every day more than 40 children of the street, children between 8 and 16 years, but we refuse that a child stay in the centre for the night. We receives and help also street girls of 8 to 16, but the work with the girls is much more difficult, because they suffer much more than boys in the street (prostitution, sexual violence…) We want to begin a second centre for the girls, not to mix them with the boys, because of their special condition.

 

This page was last updated 21/05/2009

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