of the tragic events of the slave trade. On the island is the former home of the Signare Anna Colas Pépin, known as "Th
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Mamitsho LOBO Emancipated female pilot
Interview William MAZINGI
Young leader of MWF 2017
Culture
Gorée Island
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EDITO Etymologically speaking, NGO is an acronym used to designate a nongovernmental organization. It is a civil society, with/for public interest or humanitarian character, which depends neither on a state, nor on an international organization. NGO decides autonomously which actions to undertake. In Africa, NGO movement timidly started between 1980 and 1990. The end of the cold war lead to the fall of so many dictators in Africa and the liberation of the civil society. The NGO movement and the press benefited. At the end of the same decade, the world economy opened borders to conquer new markets: it is globalization. African’s governments neglect the well-being of their population to their own maximum profit. The gap between rich and poor is growing. Civil society coordinates its actions to survive. At the same time, the UN organized thematic conferences about: earth in Rio de Janeiro, Health in socio-economic issues in Vienna and Women in Beijing . These conferences sensitized the populations on their social problems, their rights and the vigilance of the NGOs also. Africa, through the OAU, promulgated the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. From that moment, organizations and associations were registered as NGOs. Initially, they timidly worked before becoming more professional, especially in the fields of environment, women and youth. But some African NGOs had lost the confidence of donors, because of the lack of transparency in the management of the subsidies that were put at their disposal. For them, NGOs are a way to make easy money at the expense of the weak. These are mostly ephemeral and fraudulent organizations that lack long-term vision and clear objectives. Even today, in our communities, we see more and more NGOs being born. Some remain puzzled as to the motives of the creators of these NGOs, wondering whether their purpose is community-oriented or of personal interest. Despite this weak point, NGOs are genuine development aid, seeking the participation of rural populations and aiming at meeting the basic needs of these populations. We can mention some advantages that we owe them such as international awareness of the tragedies that African children experience during wars, displacement and poverty; the development of tourism expropriates people their land in some African countries. Fortunately, with the NGO’s around, information could circulate, and they were able to react on time. Because of NGO’s, laws regulated women rights were changed in several African countries and forests were protected. Although NGO movements are making progress in Africa, the current system continues to make efforts to limit its effectiveness through documented policies and systematic controls. A proliferation of NGOs has been observed in the past years. However, we have noticed that most NGOs deal with the same issues/topics over and over. Having NGO’s narrowing or centralizing their plan of actions on how to with different issues is key leading to release a budget for the regrouped NGOs. Thus, by doing so, NGO’s could reoriented the rest of their budget to other sectors. NGOs must rise the challenge by establishing themselves as a viable authority and a change vector by putting in place their own infrastructure and capacity for consolidation and greater professionalism written by
Joelle Kalubi Translated by Divine Kavunga
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Mamitsho LOBO William MAZINGI Nelson Egharevba
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William MAZINGI
Culture 9
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Mamitsho LOBO Mamitsho LOBO, a young and emancipated woman characterized by her strong personality, was born from Congolese parents in Buta in Bas-Uele ( Province Orientale) in Congo.
She studied in the Kwilu (former Province of Bandundu) precisely in Kikwit, passing by Mbuji-Mayi, where she obtained her state diploma in option Math-Physics. Graduate of State, she came back to Kinshasa to continue her higher studies at the Institute of Applied Techniques, where she emerged as a civil aviation technician, option aviation. Afterward, Mamitsho went for an Aviation School in south africa which will enable her to persue her career as a pilot.
Back in Kinshasa in 2010, she first worked with Goma Express (a high-risk aviation). Currently at CONGO AIRWAYS, where she pilots the airbus 320; Still not easy, but not impossible. This profession of pilot does not have a negative, according to her, except that prejudices belonging to her culture, her family or her entourage. Very proud to be Congolese, Mamitsho is committed to seeing her country moving forward. She is been strongly active in her community. First, she is the Secretary General of the congolese association of pilots which is a synergy that brings together nearly 150 Congolese pilots who are aware of current situations, projects and development. Her conviction of becoming a pilot, was a childhood dream. After completing her school program in South Africa, Mamitsho returned back to kinshasa where she was astonished to not see young pilots; And then receives a gift from her father's friend of a microsoft program, 2000 simulator that contained a pilot and his wife co-pilot; From there her enthusiasm to see her dream comes true revive.
« When you choose something out of the ordinary, it's not easy, it's not impossible. »
« Today we can be proud to have CONGO AIRWAYS as a Congolese company where Congolese travel peacefully.». Secondly, Mamitsho is a member of NGOs whose goal is to make the Congolese community aware of sustainable development, "Because we have everything to be good, and we have nothing"; And last not least she is ambassador for various programs such as the film "Girls Rising" which is a program that promotes girls; Also an ambassador for the Laureine Kabwiz Foundation's "Grace at School" campaign and a role model for the "La Pépinière" program of the DFID department of the United Kingdom Embassy.
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William
Natey Mazingi Discover the path of one of the best Young Leaders of 2017 through the Mandela Washington fellowship program...
William is of the Congolese origin. He graduated from Tshwane University of technology (Pretoria- South Africa) in Chemical Engineering and he is holding a leadership, Worship and technology certificate. He has five years’ experience in different engineering area such as wastewater treatment, fabrication of yogurt and cigarette; management skills as an administrative secretary and organizing events; safety officer and finally as a Quality Control Officer. In addition, he is among the 1000 best Young Leaders initiative and 25 congoleses of 2017 through the Mandela Washington fellowship program. At a young age has developed interest in taking of street children by organizing most of the football competition in the community where he grew up. Currently, he is working at cement plant CIMKO at Kongo Central as a Laboratory Analyst. He is also one of the key members of LUBEMBA FOUNDATION where he is volunteering as a spiritual and sport Leader, coach, mentor and adviser with under-privilege children in the sector of soccer. He is the founder and owner of a soccer academy Aigle Royal.
WHAT'S THE NEXT MOVE? William is planning to start his manufacture yogurt mixed fruits and juice business which will finance the philanthropy activities of his organization.
MOTTO :
Unity in action Peace-Justice-Love
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Nelson Egharevba
Nelson is a young Nigerian student in Dubai. he studies Network Engineering at Canadian university Dubai and he has a passion for business and videos. he showed evidence of great business talent at a very young age; he sold sweets to his mates at school; As a teen, he tried but failed to establish himself as a rapper; Later on, he sold merchandise to people ,then he customized shoes and sold them out. In 2015,he found himself as the youngest intern at Just Lounge Dubai. He tried his hand at so many things till he found VIDEOGRAPHY! He's now an independent videographer. HE EDITS,HE SHOOTS,HE DIRECTS!!
WHAT'S THE NEXT MOVE? Before the end of 2017,he plans to release five QUALITY short films. He's motivated and trusts in God to achieve his goal.
MOTTO : Trust the process, find what you love and stick to it
Lieu/Place : Autoroute A1 (Centre ville) - Tunisie, Photographe/Photographer : Joel Kalenga
Interview With William Natey Mazingi 1. What is your association’s goal ? The main vision of the Royal Eagle Organisation is , all children, it does not matter their social background they have something useful to give back to the family, the community,and the country. So we are providing the plateform for them to express themself and through out we are guiding them by showing them the way to be, to do, to go. Beside that we are also in the development of commmunity in the leadership and Business and Entrepreneurship area. - Rise up the children confidence - Blowing out their talents - Make their talents useful for the community a,d the country - Keep away Children from the street and street gangs - Teach teenage woman how to be useful in the community and the country.
2. What motivated you to create the association ? Actually i can not say there is a main reason, just the reasons why i have decided to go in that way it is because i love my country and i believe that the success of a country, it is in the hand of the next generation who is Children. And ifwe want a better DRCongo we should prepare the children. Also after my university i met one the kid i was training before i leave the country, who became part of the street gang, i asked him why ? it was his answer who motivated, he told me : « I am like this because you left me. » I know i am not the father of that child, but i felt that i failed and i decided to do something so that this situation will not happen again..
3. What is the biggest obstacle until here ? Honestly, i am not going to turn my tongue many times to aswer this questions, it is the financial part, we all have great ideas but limited by the lack of ressources. But we are not giving up, we moving with what we have.
4. Is there any change in those kids life? I think i should not be the one to answer this question, it should have been one of the kids that i am working with. But i will say yes there is a positive impact in the life of these children. My contribution in the life of the children is first my own experience, because you can only give what you have, then through it here some of the thing i adding in the life : - It is not easy but it is possible - Do not give up - Work hard, harder - Give all your best in what’s you are doing - You are a solution to the problem
5. Some projects coming up ? Yes, obviously because a man who stop moving is dead. So i am in the process to start a business called which has a vision on developping the rural area and assist me financially with the philanthropy activities that i am doing with the Organisation. Open up the organisation to the international level through the best players in soccer, baskettball, volleyball of the Acadmy Royal Eagle Center. In the next few years the organisation should have his own facilities where we will be welcoming all the children from different age. And finaly i am writing a book.
Culture
Gorée island Gorée is a tiny island located off the coast of the Dakar, Senegal sprawling’s capital city.
A car-free place rich in history. Discovered by Portuguese settlers in 1444 who baptized it Palma while the local population called it "Bir or Ber", however, the Dutch navy re-named it "Goede Reede" which means good harbor hence the name of Gorée. It is a symbolic place in memory of the slave trade. It is thought that the island was one of the largest slaves trade centers on the African continent a car-free place rich in history where the colonial streets lined with impressive, pastel houses of erstwhile slave traders. In 1978, it was officially declared by the United Nations as a "memory" of the tragic events of the slave trade. On the island is the former home of the Signare Anna Colas Pépin, known as "The House of Slaves" and famous “door of no return”. It is one of oldest house of the island and housed slaves before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.
The island is also a place of intense cultural and intellectual activity. Its tropical climate, the proximity of the capital, the pastel tone of the facades, its captivating atmosphere has taken many artists such as the painter Fallou Dolly, Sheikh, Gabriel Kemzo or Moussa Sakho to settle temporarily or definitively. Music is not to be missed as the island hosts Jazz festivals and an opera was dedicated to him in 1966 for the first world festival of Negro arts. In addition, several scenes of films were filmed on this historic island. In 2005, she received the first edition of the Gorée Diaspora festival, an event launched by the municipality and uniting dances, music, visual arts, conferences, sports, carnivals and light and sound shows. Gorée holds some museums such as the Sea Museum which is renowned for its collection of 750 species of fish and 700 species of molluscs; the Museum of Women which pays tribute to the women of the country famous or not; the Historical Museum which is devoted to the history of the country, the origins of independence and more particularly that of the island of Gorée. Goree is definitely a paradise for walk, sea, history and art lovers.
View of the inner courtyard of the Anna Colas House, currently the House of Slaves. Lithograph by A. d'Astrel from the previous watercolor (Fig. 8). Excerpt French colony from Senegal. Paris, s.d. [ca. 1848], pl. 8. (credit https://insitu.revues.org/10303)
Lieu/Place : Cité Montplaisir - Tunisie, Photographe/Photographer : Joel Kalenga
Event
Nelson Mandela International Day 2017
DRC / A delegation from the South African Embassy in Kinshasa visiting a hospice and the hospital for the poor sisters from Bergamo to Kimbanseke.
On the sidelines of the Nelson Mandela Day celebrated in Kinshasa around 9:30 am, a charity visit accompanied by a large donation, was carried out on Tuesday, July 18, in a hospice of old people and at the Sisters of the Poor Hospital of Bergamo. a delegation composed of diplomatic corps, its partners and a group of volunteers under the auspices of the South African ambassador in Kingasani. To join the international celebration, the Embassy of South Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo with its various partners for the occasion namely Vodacom, Standard Bank, PPC, PG Ice, RVA, MONUSCO, the South African contingent of Monusco, Mandela Day Doctors and various volunteers went to the Old Men's Hospice and to the Hospital of the Sisters of the Poor of Bergamo, located on the outskirts of the city of Kinshasa in Kimbanseke Township on Kimpioka Avenue No. 3 in the Quartier 17 May, in order to visit and assist the residents which are there. This home of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor is home to 36 elderly men, including 12 men, including one Angolan, and 24 women, two of whom were victims of a traffic accident. It was at 6 o'clock in the morning, that several volunteers mobilized in the enclosure of the old people's home and the hospital center of the sisters of the poor in order to carry out their respective tasks As planned, in particular: the ironing, the hairdressing, laundry, cooking, cleaning, manicure, pedicure and gardening. Several partners have donated to know: bags of rice, cans of vegetable oils, cartons of sardines, biscuits, coffee cartons, pillows, plates and cutlery, boxes of soap powder , second-hand clothes, toilet paper rolls, detergent cans, milk powder sachets, paint trays, a washing machine, a refrigerator for the blood bank powered by two solar panels, appliances "electronic and manual sphygmomanometers", as well as boxes of essential medicines. It was at 9.30 am that the South African Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the Sisters of the Poor for the launch of the activities. Speaking first, Sister Renalte, who was in charge of the center, gave her welcome address to the audience. In her address, she has successively presented, the community of the sisters of the poor who works since 53 years in the service of the disadvantaged, the various activities that this community of sisters carries out within the framework of the social well-being of the residents of the district and mainly of the old people, the difficulties encountered and the projects to be carried out, in particular the construction of the operating theater, reinforcement of equipment for imaging "scanner, echo-doppler" and then the expansion project of the hospital center. Moreover, the sisters of the congregation of the poor have assigned themselves as mission because of their ideal which is the listening of the other, the complementarity, the solidarity to help and to consider the human person in his dignity without any discrimination race or colors even less religion. On the other hand, she said that life is a gift of God for man In addition, during her address, Sister Renalte emphasized that the sisters of the poor through the acts of charity they pose, continue the mission that Nelson Mandela had set for himself: "to lift others out of poverty and hunger" .
For his part, Ambassador Abel Shilubane took the floor, thanking the community of the Sisters of the Poor for the hospitality and hard work, as well as the volunteers and partners for their sacrifices. Then, the latter specified that the legitimacy of the consecration of this day by the United Nations. He further stated that the fact of to return to the home of old men to visit them, and to assist them constitutes for the participants an effective contribution with a view to the commemoration of that day. Speaking one after the other, at the invitation of Minister Plenipotentiary Mr. Luvuyo Ndimeni of the Embassy of South Africa, each partner expressed his contribution to the benefit of the beneficiaries. The intervention of various partners was followed by the word of welcome and thanks in Swahili by Mrs. Bernadette Asini, one of the women residents and representative of the home for 20 years, following a case of traffic accident. After the various addresses the whole delegation then made a guided tour of the place, and she proceeded to exchange with some old men who were in the garden of the house of the sisters. The delegation visited successively the laundry room where many of the volunteers were making clothes for medical staff, newborns and their mothers. The visit intensified to the refectory, the neonatology room, the delivery room, the ultrasound, the laboratory, the transfusion room, the prenatal consultation room, the mother's transmission protection service. with the child, the rooms of the sick "men, women and children", the maternity, the room of care, the emergency room, the dispensary and consultation of the nurses, the restaurant, the boxes of consultation of the doctors, the service physiotherapy, pharmacy, doctors' offices and finally the rooms of malnourished children. However, the association of doctors called "Mandela Day Doctors" has marked its presence on the one hand, by consulting all malnourished children before giving them advice on adequate nutrition following the various pathologies encountered. On the other hand, she gave a training in initiation to palliative care, which care is intended for patients at the end of life or carriers of incurable diseases. At the old age home, the delegation visited all the rooms of these elderly people, to greet them and bring them a new smile that expresses a sign of hope. The activity ended with an overall dinner, photos taken in groups, a play presented and animated by the residents who highlighted the human dignity of the elderly. It is worth remembering that in 2009 the International Nelson Mandela Day was born and approved by the UN General Assembly, to be celebrated every 18 July of the year.
Peter NDAYE
Event
May 7, 2017, day dedicated to
orphans living with HIV
Active for two years already, “La Main sur le Coeur", is an association that fights and cares about people living with HIV. ” La Main sur le Coeur” works on different sectors such as health and education. Throughout their activities, they provide access to adequate treatment to seropositive people, they fight malnutrition and support the education of orphans. On May 7, 2017, day dedicated to orphans living with HIV, the association "La Main sur le cœur" organized a gala evening at Kin Plazza Arjaan hotel by Rotana, where they rose funds to help waif AIDS orphans in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An evening full of emotions, with performances such as fashion show presented by the association of albinos of Congo, with testimonies of people living with AIDS, a speech by the Minister of Health, Mr. Oly ILUNGA and an auction of works of art.
Lieu/Place : Art urbain sous l'auto route A1 - Tunisie, Photographe/Photographer : Joel Kalenga
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