Church Installs Rainwater Tanks in Isolated Congolese Village

A rainwater collection project installed by the Eastern Congo Disaster Management Office is designed to combine disaster response and health programming to address the needs of communities affected by conflict.
Jean Tshomba, coordinator of the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s Disaster Management Office in Eastern Congo, turns on the tap of a new rainwater cistern in Kibumba, Congo, as Dr. Damas Lushima (wearing a blue hat), team members and a young girl from the village look on. With funding from UMCOR, 24 rainwater collection tanks were installed to provide vital access to safe drinking water in this remote village, which is devoid of surface water sources and weakened by recent population displacements. Photo by Jolie Shabani, UM News

KIBUMBA, North Kivu, DRC – A rainwater collection project installed by the Eastern Congo Disaster Management Office, in coordination with Global Ministries’ Global Health team, supplies water to an area that has no other water source. The activities were part of an integrated relief program for Eastern Congo funded by UMCOR last year, designed to combine disaster response and health programming to address the needs of communities affected by conflict.


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