When Deborah was just 5 years old, her father died after suffering for a long time with an undiagnosed illness, leaving her and her four brothers with their mother. Now…
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In February our new HCLS Director was able to make a very welcome visit to Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. where HCLS is based. The visit was a…
In 2021, we had no concept of what was about to unfold for HCLS. For our founder and director at the time, Dino Kile Mozart, the big challenge was dealing…
In recent discussion with our director in Bunia, Mozart Dino Kile, he advised that the massacres in the region have ceased with the arrival of UN peacekeepers, and the…
The last month has been disastrous for the Ituri province around Bunia, with the violence that started in our director Mozart’s home village sparking an explosion of tit-for-tat reprisals, and…
Very disturbing stories and images coming out of Bunia and the surrounding region today. There was a violent massacre on the weekend in Mozart’s home village of Blukwa in which…
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, land ownership isn’t as simple as elsewhere. When you buy or are given a block of land you are required to develop it for…
Things change quickly in DRC politics, and the latest development is the death of Étienne Tshisekedi, the respected opposition leader who was key in brokering the peace deal that would…
The Congo Wars (1997 – 2003) were the latest in a series of generation-impacting events in Congo’s history. King Leopold of Belgium exploited it as The Congo Free State,…
In 2014, three intrepid Australian men rode across their continent to raise funds for HCLS, and from that effort HCLS was able to purchase a mini-bus, complete the boy’s dorm at the secondary…