Changes in Congo



Wasaidizi Health Worker in Congo

We are so impressed with the life-changing interventions the volunteer Wasaidizi health workers in Congo have made over the years.  They recently reported the following changes they helped bring about since they started working in their villages 20 years ago.

• Mothers are now unafraid to take their children to the clinic when they are sick.
• Mothers come to little clinics to give birth
• Mothers obtain immunizations for their children
• The community is planting more groundnuts and soya, tomatoes and vegetables
• Most people now draw water from the boreholes rather than obtain it from the river
• Few children have leg ulcers which were once epidemic
• Many people in the community use guava leaves as an antiseptic