Empowering vulnerable Congolese through local knowledge and local means
Decades and billions of dollars of aid have yielded an underwhelming performance in Congo. The need for innovative and impactful intervention is imperative.
AGIR provides the precision, accountability, and impact that only comes with a small local organization. The organization is the intersection of innovation, committed locals, global do-gooders, and inspiring stories of ordinary Congolese.
Response to the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo
Months have passed and hundreds of families have fallen through the cracks of the governmental and international response. In addition to abject poverty, thousands of displaced people face urgent needs. AGIR steps in to fill the void.
Incubating a local NGO that protects and empowers vulnerable domestic laborers
Domestic workers are routinely abused and exploited. UFEDOC is a fledging NGO that is empowering and unionizing domestic workers in Goma. AGIR is assisting UDEFOC as it tries to find stability and become a role model NGO in the Congolese space.
Nyiragongo in shock again
Around 2:00 a.m., while it was still dark, the region was attacked by "alleged M23 rebels". Total panic, in the cold, the families scattered; the men from their wives, the children from their parents. Until dawn, some rushed to the homes of relatives in the city of Goma…
This indispensable work that we ignore
This is the working climate in many houses and public and private administrations. The presence of domestic workers is essential for the balance of work anywhere, to the point that their absence handicaps all work from small support services to the highest officials…
Intervene at any cost
In the middle of the night, everything changed! We heard the sound of bullets here and there, bombs rang out: "We are under attack, we must flee. In panic, a multitude of inhabitants of Kibumba, men, women and children alike, fled, heading 25 km down the region…
“In the 30 years I’ve lived and worked in Congo, I have not seen a more dynamic team with a stronger track record than the talent assembled at AGIR-RDC. They are raising the bar for a new generation of Congolese change-makers.”
— Judy Anderson, Executive Director, Act for Congo
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