Congo and Africa

Website:  PBS: AFRICA - Africa for Kids http://pbskids.org/africa/index.html (from PBS)

Options include seeing photo albums of four schools in different countries in Africa (Congo is not included), learning about a thumb piano, making a mask, and reading a Swahili folk tale.

Website:  Kids' Africa http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm (also from PBS)

Offers three options: a treasure hunt, an offline project to make a toy ant character, and an offline project to create paper stamped with traditional symbols in a simulation of Adinkra cloth (the patterned cloth made in Ghana).

This site is related to the PBS site Wonders of the African World (http://www.pbs.org/wonders/), a series created by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The main site offers information and photos that could be of interest to older children.

Photos:  The Paul Carlson Partnership has posted a number of photos on Flickr. These include pictures of different kinds of school buildings in Congo, forms of transportation, hospitals, clinics, and others. We continue to add more photo sets periodically.