Paul Carlson Partnership

The Paul Carlson Partnership (called the "PCP" for short) is a not-for-profit organization that works to help people in very poor places to make better lives for their families. Right now we are working in the northwest area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Africa. We help with three kinds of needs:

Health -- We help 4 hospitals and 93 clinics in northwest Congo, providing money for medicines and for other expenses.

Education -- We help a system of 423 elementary and secondary schools by providing money for books, benches, and other things they need, including metal roofs for some of the schools.

Work -- We help people begin small businesses that will give them some income, so they can take care of their families' needs. This is called "microenterprise." We work especially with farmers. We help them to grow enough to sell (in addition to feeding their families), and we help other people to buy the farmers' produce and take it all the way to the capital city of Kinshasa to sell it a good prices.

The Paul Carlson Partnership is named for Dr. Paul Carlson, who was a missionary doctor in Congo and was killed there in the civil war in 1964. Our work depends on gifts of money from people, churches, and other organizations across North America. The PCP is related to the Evangelical Covenant Church.