CONGO MISSION ACTION
MONTREAL, QC (CAN)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
CONGO MISSION
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Location:
MONTREAL
Industry:
Non Profit
Year Founded:
2009
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
We are a humanitarian organization initially started from DR Congo. Our mission is to see Orphans from the East of the DR Congo helped and cared for and loved for them to gain their hope.
On the East of the DRC Children are often direct or indirect victims of violence, and/or witnesses to various horrors associated with war. Children as young as seven or eight are forcibly conscripted and indoctrinated as child soldiers or porters in several African countries. Girls as well as boys often suffer, some being forced into sexual or other service at early ages so that they can be given food to them to survival. In conflicts where terrorizing civilians has become a routine means to political and military ends, women and children are deliberately targeted for torture and death.
Only from Goma, Bukavu as well as down in Uvira and Fizi, there are at least one million children separated from their parents be cause of war, and there are many thousands who have been traumatized even more directly by war. Child victims of this sort often exhibit symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
The above symptoms and related stress reactions common in children include: avoidance/numbing, as in cutting off of feelings and avoidance of situations that provide reminders of traumatic events; insomnia, inability to concentrate, "intrusive re-experiencing," such as nightmares and flashbacks; lethargy, confusion, fear, aggressive behavior, social isolation, and hopelessness in relation to the future.