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If you want your donations to go the farthest, I recommend donating directly to people in need and local nonprofits. For the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I suggest Goma Actif
Goma Actif is a Congolese nonprofit that has boots on the ground in Goma, DRC, at the Kanyaruchinya displacement camp, providing food to people who have fled the latest offensive by the M23 rebel group.
The Congolese people have expressed frustration that international organizations are slow and fickle when it comes to distributing aid. Goma Actif functions entirely within DRCongo and therefore bypasses international red tape to deliver aid more reliably than external sources.
A thread of Fundraiser of Congo and Sudan
Gfm to support Congolese non profits like focus Congo and Friends of the Congo
Help @/Godlessdyke's family escape Genocide
Another Gfm that supports friends of the Congo to help Congolese people and Children!
Help Leon, a Congolese refugee and his family
Help 4 Sudanese families
Support Rasheed's family journey to safety
Help Hiba's family
Support Isra's education in Egypt
Support for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo
theres been bombs dropped on displaced families camps in congo so i wanna share some places to donate where u can help the congolese ppl
focus congo
friends of the congo
panzi foundation
if u cant donate just share and get it to someone who can!!
the video is only a couple minutes and really informative!
$3,063/$50,000
Joy, who works with Focus Congo, started Nurses For Humanity to organise and support a volunteer group of health care professionals like herself to travel to the DRC and work in clinics with their partnered organizations.
We work with a few small, Congolese based organisations on the ground in Goma, Bukavu and… to build clinics within the displacement camps. Nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, translators, doctors, CNAs, HHAs and security professionals are needed desperately which is why we are raising money to send a team of volunteers to work in the clinics with our partnered organisations. Our goal is to reach as many people as possible by providing basic health care, wound care, emergency care, treatment, checkups and over the counter solutions such as cough syrup and tiger balm. We also use these clinics to distribute donations in the form of food, clothing, shoes and water.
The funds will cover the cost of flights, ground transportation, food and lodging for a small group of 7- 10 volunteers and raise money to support their work on the ground.
Why are they mining so much right now?
Cobalt has become the center of a major upsurge in mining in Congo, and the rapid acceleration of cobalt extraction in the region since 2013 has brought hundreds of thousands of people into intimate contact with a powerful melange of toxic metals. The frantic pace of cobalt extraction in Katanga bears close resemblance to another period of rapid exploitation of Congolese mineral resources: During the last few years of World War II, the U.S. government sourced the majority of the uranium necessary to develop the first atomic weapons from a single Congolese mine, named Shinkolobwe. The largely forgotten story of those miners, and the devastating health and ecological impacts uranium production had on Congo, looms over the country now as cobalt mining accelerates to feed the renewable energy boom—with little to no protections for workers involved in the trade.
The city of Kolwezi, which is 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Lubumbashi and 180 km from the now-abandoned Shinkolobwe mine, sits on top of nearly half of the available cobalt in the world. The scope of the contemporary scramble for that metal in Katanga has totally transformed the region. Enormous open-pit mines worked by tens of thousands of miners form vast craters in the landscape and are slowly erasing the city itself.
[...]Much of the cobalt in Congo is mined by hand: Workers scour the surface level seams with picks, shovels, and lengths of rebar, sometimes tunneling by hand 60 feet or more into the earth in pursuit of a vein of ore. This is referred to as artisanal mining, as opposed to the industrial mining carried out by large firms. The thousands of artisanal miners who work at the edges of the formal mines run by big industrial concerns make up 90 percent of the nation’s mining workforce and produce 30 percent of its metals. Artisanal mining is not as efficient as larger-scale industrial mining, but since the miners produce good-quality ore with zero investment in tools, infrastructure, or safety, the ore they sell to buyers is as cheap as it gets. Forced and child labor in the supply chain is not uncommon here, thanks in part to a significant lack of controls and regulations on artisanal mining from the government.
[...]When later atomic research found that uranium’s unstable nucleus could be used to make a powerful bomb, the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project began searching for a reliable source of uranium. They found it through Union Minière, which sold the United States the first 1,000 tons it needed to get the bomb effort off the ground.
The Manhattan Project sent agents of the OSS, precursor to the CIA, to Congo from 1943 to 1945 to supervise the reopening of the mine and the extraction of Shinkolobwe’s ore—and to make sure none of it fell into the hands of the Axis powers. Every piece of rock that emerged from the mine for almost two decades was purchased by the Manhattan Project and its successors in the Atomic Energy Commission, until the mine was closed by the Belgian authorities on the eve of Congolese independence in 1960. After that, the colonial mining enterprise Union Minière became the national minerals conglomerate Gécamines, which retained much of the original structure and staff.
[...]Dr. Lubaba showed me the small battery-operated Geiger counters that he uses in the field to measure radioactivity. He had begun the process of trying to find and interview the descendants of the Shinkolobwe miners, but he explained that tracing the health consequences of working in that specific mine would be difficult: Many long-established villages in the area have been demolished and cast apart as cobalt extraction has torn through the landscape. His initial inquiries suggested that at least some of the descendants of the Shinkolobwe miners had been drawn into the maelstrom of digging in the region around Kolwezi.
In her book Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, historian Gabrielle Hecht recounts the U.S. Public Health Service’s efforts to investigate the effects of uranium exposure on people who worked closely with the metal and the ore that bore it. In 1956, a team of medical researchers from the PHS paid a visit to Shinkolobwe while the mine was still producing more than half of the uranium used in America’s Cold War missile programs. Most of their questions went unanswered, however, as Shinkolobwe’s operators had few official records to share and stopped responding to communications as soon as the researchers left.
[...]“Don’t ever use that word in anybody’s presence. Not ever!” Williams quotes OSS agent Wilbur Hogue snapping at a subordinate who had said the mine’s name in a café in Congo’s capital. “There’s something in that mine that both the United States and Germany want more than anything else in the world. I don’t know what it’s for. We’re not supposed to know.”
5 things you need to know about the genocide in the DRC
Free Congo
CONGO GFM LIST
(DISCLAIMER:i cannot find any traditional vet posts for these, but they are all from here and here. Both of these sources are shared around a lot and seem very legitimate to me personally, but fyi I do not vet fundraisers. Many of these are by prominent organizations though, so please please donate if you can.)
CHF15 out of CHF2,000 source (Supporting Malaika!)
€11,917 out of €50,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€55,305 out of €75,000 source (Organized by Goma Actif!)
$14,650 USD out of $20,000 source (Took refuge in the United States around a year ago. Still need financial support; extremely large family)
€118 out of €5,000 source (GFM description is in French)
$13,696 USD out of $86,000 source
€403 out of €1,500 source (GFM description is in French)
$15,922 CAD out of $50,000 source (Organized by Goma Upendo!)
£3,900 out of £10,000 source (Organized by Focus Congo!)
$9,873 USD out of $20,000 source
$5,010 out of $45,000 source (Supporting Peace African Hope!)
€1,792 out of €2,500 source (GFM description is in French and Dutch) (Supporting Mamma Jeanne's Ophanage! x x)
$34,377 CAD out of $40,000 source
$1,917 USD out of $2,500 source
€2,050 out of €2,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€34,891 out of €30,000 source
$24,106 CAD out of $20,000 source (Supporting Focus Congo!)
$2,936 USD raised of $2,000 source (Organized by The Jaliyaa Project!)
(Please note that, although I did link organizations that I could find further information and verification on, this doesn't mean you shouldn't at least look at the other fundraisers here.
Everyone deserves your concideration.)
Reminder by the way! One of the best ways you can help the Congo even if you can't donate is boycotting!
Only buy secondhand electronics! Do not support any of the companies contributing to the horrible cobalt mining practicing in DR Congo! More information here!
resources for palestine
resources for palestine (2)
operation olive branch, a spreadsheet full of families trying to escape rafah, in case you can donate
twitter thread of fundraisers for palestine
daily click for palestine
info post about sudan
twitter thread about sudan
twitter post for the DRC
friends of the congo, a list of helpful actions you can take for the DRC
post of donation links for the DRC
5 things you need to know about the genocide in the DRC
Free Congo
5 things you need to know about the genocide in the DRC
Free Congo
$3,064/$30,000
This campaign was started by @/atute_insp on tiktok and her team Mutual Aim to collect money for the DRC, Sudan, and Tigray. The donations will be divided between the three causes. If you would like do donate but don't have the funds to donate to multiple campaigns, this is a great way to help both the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray.
it really is mind-boggling to me that the only reason i know about the Congolese and Sudanese genocides is because of the tireless work of grassroots activists and advocates posting on social media. I can honestly say that if I didn't have social media and didn't happen to be following Black authors and activists, I never would have known what was happening in Sudan and Congo because it is simply not being reported in the great majority of mainstream media. We're talking millions upon millions of PEOPLE enduring unimaginable pain and devastation with next to no official reporting. And yes that is in huge part due to the level of violence and displacement occurring that is preventing a lot of news from getting out of these countries, but it's also so blatantly due to anti-Black racism and the perception of African Nations as inherently savage and violent. But genocide is not and never should be normal for anyone anywhere. With that in mind, please keep Congo and Sudan in your thoughts. Check out Focus Congo for resources to help the Congolese people on the ground. Focus Congo's MO is a local organisation whose goal is to rebuild homes, rehabilitate land, and provide medical aid, education, and resources to Congo's most affected people. Also, Check out Keep Eyes On Sudan for how to help out and raise awareness of Sudanese people displaced by civil war. According to Sudanese TikToker bsonblast, donations to local food kitchens in Sudan are desperately needed to fight famine. If anyone has other resources specifically for helping Congo and Sudan, please add them and link them <3
Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 | Sudan 🇸🇩
Links to help and learn more about what’s happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also do NOT say free Congo 🇨🇬 when referring to the issues happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩. They are two different places with different flags. Instead say free DRC.
Focuscongo.com • Friendsofthecongo.org
Don’t replace your electronic devices for newer versions and if you need to, you can buy a refurbished one. As someone who’s had the same refurbished phone for seven years, I promise you it isn’t bad. It works the same. Here’s a list of books you can read to learn more, recommended by Friends of the Congo.
Here’s links so you learn more about what’s happening in Sudan 🇸🇩 Talk about Sudan.
Here’s people and organizations you can donate to:
Help Sudan Tarada Initiative • Help A Family of 11 Leave
Eyes on Sudan • Zubeyda Adam and Family
The image says:
13,000+ people have been killed. 26,000+ people injured. 10M+ displaced, making Sudan the largest displacement crisis globally. 25M+ need humanitarian assistance and support, 14 million are children. 4M women & girls at risk of sexual violence. 1OK+ cholera cases with 275 associated deaths. 3.5M+ children suffer from acute malnutrition.
As someone on twitter called out, since it applies here too. Do not say, free Palestine and then slap on free drc, free Ukraine, free list of other places… if you’re not adding ways to help, or providing information on their situation. It doesn’t help the other places because their tags just get filled with information on the genocide of Palestinians, when it should be sharing all of their problems. Don’t use their tag without talking about their situation as well.
Last thing. Don't let the aesthetic of your blog be the reason you don't speak up about what's happening. You can make a post filled with links and add you’re little banners and whatnot while helping others. And don’t worry about your following count, if they leave then they aren’t worth having around. Also post ways you can help and don’t worry about what you aren’t able to do, negativity does nothing to help. Don’t tell everyone you’re not able to donate, just spread awareness so those who are able can provide.