Projects

The Congolese government has not built a hospital in Eastern Kasai Province for 50 years and at least 1,200 people die daily across the country. The population of Kasai makes fires over wood to cook, lives in mud homes with no water, and cannot afford primary education. The region has no commercial agriculture and infrastructure is limited. Congo is rich in minerals used for phones, laptops and electronics in industrialized nations but 80 percent of its people are starving and vulnerable. Fifty percent of its children are not in school and unemployment is over 80 percent. Leja Bulela members are committed to reversing this reality and showing that we care. We raise funds from our members and we invest them in the uplifting of marginalized communities in Eastern Kasai Province.
At this stage, we intend to concentrate on structural and long-term strategies that can transform the lives of the Baluba. We are happy to report the following update on current activities:

1) Construction of a health center: Leja Bulela has pledged to build a health center to primarily serve displaced persons and marginalized communities in Eastern Kasai. We are conducting feasibility studies and we have developed a plan for paying health personnel salaries from the contributions of U.S.-based Congolese.
2) Our National Coordinator, Dr. Ngoyi Bukonda is on a sabbatical. He is spending the next
six months in Mbuji-Mayi conducting research on preventing transmission of HIV in health facilities in Eastern Kasai Province. While we miss him on the Executive Committee, he is fulfilling an important mission for LB. He is establishing solid relations that LB needs with local programs, especially with the University of Mbuji-Mayi, and creating needed local ties to help us implement effective projects that also respond to the real needs of the population.
3) Provision of toilets in existing health centers: LB members made contributions that are enabling the construction of toilets and provision of running water in a health center with a high client volume, especially expecting mothers.
4) We are in the process of identifying reliable NGOs working in Kasai that we can support with financial and technical contributions.

Dr. Martin Kabongo Trip to Mbuji-Mayi 2005.

Mbuji-Mayi Trip Slideshow

Download the Brochure for the Fundraising for Kalala Muzeu Hospital center.

Brochure

New Downlaod the Construction progress on of Hospital project.

Construction Starting Point

Pictures above are as of February 2009.

LB Exemplary Service| Dr. Musau WaKabongo.

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Fund Raising