The Democratic Republic of Congo

‘Schools in the World’ is an international programme that promotes education and healthy nutrition through an avantgarde pedagogical training with the aim of contributing to the physical and psychic wellbeing of the project’s beneficiaries and in that way, achieving what Giovenale hoped for: “a healthy mind in a healthy body”.

Despite the fertile land, the vast hydroelectric potential and abundance of mineral resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world and finds itself in serious socio-economic difficulties.
Especially the infant mortality rate is very high, malnutrition is widespread, there is poor vaccination coverage and the access to drinking water is limited.

1. Improve the training offer of the pre-school and primary school educational programme in M’Budi.
2. Guarantee healthcare for all children of the beneficiary schools, providing easy access to prevent and cure frequent diseases.
3. Tackle the malnutrition emergency in children from 3-6 years old from pre-schools in M’Budi.
4. Train teachers and school staff in the most updated techniques in the field of pedagogy
   Expand and improve the school building through building interventions.

• Distribution of 992 educational kits;
• A scholarship for a disabled child;
• Consolidation of educational staff.

• Basic healthcare focused on prevention (typhus fever, malaria, dysentery, infections, etc.) through 2 medical exams a year for all 496 beneficiary students;
• Purchase and supply of necessary medication.

• Monitoring of children at risk of malnutrition;
• Supply of 1 complete meal a day, to each child in the age range of 0-5 years (50) of the pre-school in M’Budi for the entire school year.

• One training seminar.