Congo: Clean energy for hospitals: Misereor

The project in the DR Congo aims to provide sustainable energy and a reliable power supply, thus enabling safe births and improved healthcare.

Your donation brings light and hope - for life-saving medical care in the DR Congo.

Continent

Africa

Thematic focus:

Green energy for a good life

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, health centres are often without a reliable power supply. This means that vital operations and births are often carried out in the dark under precarious conditions. Malnutrition and epidemics such as malaria and cholera exacerbate the situation. Without constant electricity, medical care is severely limited, which leads to high mortality rates.

Ultrasound examination in an African hospital

Midwife listens to pregnant women with an ear trumpet.

Solar power combines essential health care with pragmatic climate protection.

Thanks to the secure power supply, more births are being attended.

This health centre in Boma was equipped with solar panels and is now reliably supplied with electricity

The staff is trained in the control and maintenance of solar energy.

Reliable light means safety: Mothers and their children are now also happy to come for a check-up.

The project, led by the Bureau Diocésain des Oeuvres Médicales (BDOM), brings solar energy to the health centres in the diocese of Boma. Thanks to the solar systems, delivery rooms and operating theatres can now also be used safely at night. The constant power supply ensures that blood reserves, medicines and vaccines remain refrigerated and medical equipment functions reliably.

Your donation not only supports short-term improvements, but also ensures that health centres become independent of insecure power grids in the long term. This means that operations and births can be carried out more safely and more people can receive medical care. The savings from the elimination of diesel generators enable the purchase of more important medicines. There will also be more financial opportunities for good medical staff.

With your support, we can continue to bring solar power to health centres and thus improve the lives of thousands of people in the DR Congo. Your donation will help to ensure that safe births and life-saving interventions are possible at all times.

In the year 2023

24 out of 33 health facilities in the diocese of Boma were equipped with solar power
73 per cent of delivery rooms now have electric lighting, which has significantly increased the safety and quality of births

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Every donation helps people to change their lives for the better through their own efforts.

For donations by bank transfer, please state the project number "P10054" in the reference.

Sometimes we receive more donations for a project than was granted to the legal holder of the respective project. The projects listed here are examples of the work Misereor supports all over the world. If donations for a project exceed the amount granted to its legal holder, we allocate the surplus to other projects with a similar concept.

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Our local partner organisations

Congolese Caritas

Misereor has been supporting health projects run by Congolese Caritas for decades. Caritas has set up a network of health centres to provide medical care to poor people in the various regions of this huge country. The health centres are run by nurses who are able to treat the most common diseases locally and attend normal births.

Father Piumatti

In Kanyabayonga, the people are supported by Father Piumatti, an experienced Misereor partner who has already implemented several projects of this kind.