About

We are a nonprofit organization named “Tabitha Home of Hope and Peace”, a multidisciplinary team of passionate peace builders and community development workers, located in Bukavu, South Kivu province in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is a region affected by long-term recurrent wars and armed conflicts. Our work consists of transforming vulnerability and building resilient and peaceful communities. Our intervention areas are primarily: the educational and socio-economic reintegration of military children, orphans, and abandoned children, peace education, empowerment and capacity building for widowed women and youth in vulnerable life conditions, food security, conflict transformation, ecosystem protection and participative, active research all to build sustainability.

Our flagship program for the first intervention area of vulnerability is the Dorothee Orphanage. We currently have 55 children under our holistic care (food, clothing, medical care, school fees for those of school age, and other necessities for the betterment of their lives). Our second program is Women and Youth Empowerment: our approach consists in empowering women, youth and persons with disabilities in order to unlock their potentials and make them active community members. This approach also promotes organic farming and animal breeding. We teach the children, widowed women, and youth with disabilities, how to become fully independent in the future in order to thrive through sustainable practices and more.