Season's greetings and best wishes for 2026 from Congo Children Trust and Kimbilio. We offer thanks to our supporters on behalf of both organizations as well as Lubumbashi's street children. You make Kimbilio's great work possible year-round, and you and the Kimbilio team made it possible for the children of Kimbilio to celebrate Christmas. Earlier this week, Kimbilio hosted a special meal at the Day Center. This is an annual tradition intended to show the visiting street

Two new cohorts of women are embarking on their studies at Kimbilio's sewing schools. A key focus area for Kimbilio is supporting learning and education, not just for the children that it supports, but also for the parents of former street children. Many families in Lubumbashi live in poverty with insufficient income to meet even the most basic of needs such as regular food and school fees. Kimbilio have seen firsthand how supporting mothers to gain qualifications and earn an

In a recent post we wrote about the more serious medical needs of the Kimbilio children, which are often cared for at the Butterfly...

In many of our blog posts we try to bring to life some of the challenges that street children in the DRC face. One of the pieces of...

AFEEL is the Academy For English Education in Lubumbashi. It is an international, English language school for children from preschool to...

The children at the Kimbilio Mapendo School celebrated the end of the first term and the upcoming Christmas holiday this past week. They...

When the Kimbilio Day Centre welcomes children off the streets, there are numerous cases of their needing varying degrees of medical care....