The aim of the project is to help the community born around the Pediatric Hospital of Kimbondo, in the extremely poor suburbs of the capital Kinshasa, which was established at the end of the ‘80s by doctors Laura Perna and Father Hugo Rios to provide hospital care to children who had suffered mutilations and tortures because they were labelled as "Ndoki" (child witch doctors). At present, the Kimbondo Hospital is the only gratuitous hospital in the whole Kinshasa metropolitan area and hosts more than 700 youngsters.

​We have come a long way since then: additional facilities were built around the first hospital unit to enable this small community to make progress along its growth process and to imagine their future. The first facility to be built was the school, which offers courses for children but also vocational courses to guide the community’s youth towards economic independence. The second was "Casa Betty", to host abandoned mothers, which was followed by "Casa Patrick", to support disabled youth who would be unable to survive on their own.
 
THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT
 
1. EXPANDING THE FACILITY
Maintaining the Kimbondo Hospital’s generator and upgrading the electrical system
Installing solar panels to provide electric lighting around the hospital, to the halfway houses and the school
Restructuring "Casa Betty": a halfway house with the capacity to host up to 60 street girls
Maintaining the Internet connection in the school

2. SUPPORTING THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG GENERATIONS
Upgrading the school: purchasing the instruments and equipment necessary to make it more functional
Increasing the number of courses offered, with a special focus on agronomy studies
Activating student grants
Providing educational and physiotherapeutic support to 40 children with physical and/or mental problems
Training and paying the teaching staff

3. FOCUS ON ASPECTS OF WOMANHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD
Provide psychological support to the women in "Casa Betty"
Promote the idea of informed motherhood among women and start off a recovery, training and awareness raising process on their womanhood