What does a bridge help you do?
Sell goods at the market
Go to school
Carry water
Transport solar equipment
Get to the hospital
Export coffee
Repairing A Bridge Impacts Everyone
People in DR Congo know that investing in repairing bridges and roads can make a significant economic impact for their communities, as well as provide access to schools, hospitals, and water sources.
When bridges are in poor condition, they threaten physical safety and economic security. Accidents cause the loss of thousands of dollars worth of goods, and even loss of life. Farmers can’t get their goods to market, walking over a log bridge to a hospital or clinic is dangerous, carrying food, water, and heavy materials is risky, and children can’t easily get to school.
Through our partners, many bridges have been repaired in the area. But there are many more problematic and dangerous bridges that desperately need replacing or repairing.
In the Bogose Nubea region, we plan to complete the causeway and six bridges in 2020, and the final larger bridge over the main river channel in 2021.
In order to accomplish these goals, we must raise $33,000 each year for the next three years.
We believe we can do this with your help!
Explore the bridge projects in Congo.
Stories
March 25, 2021
Congolese engineers and many workers continue to construct a 9-bridge complex between Bogose Nubea and Karawa. During construction people are crossing on temporary footbridges which [...]
March 24, 2020
Bogose Nubea is a remote village of about 6,000 people and has a series of 12 log bridges and a half-kilometer causeway crossing the Nguya River and wetlands. Over half of the population use these log bridges as their connection to the west where the primary market, Bogose Nubea Hospital, schools, and churches are located.
June 8, 2018
Hope is alive in Congo! Take it from Mr. Kotake, an enterprising man who has built a private, water-driven mill on the route between Karawa [...]
March 1, 2018
by Pete Ekstrand, ECC Missionary in DR Congo November 18, 2017, DR Congo What a celebration the CEUM, community, and government had earlier this [...]
April 20, 2016
An Economic Development Update James Fischer, Director of Economic Development, recently returned from a three week trip to Congo. While there, he was able to [...]
June 8, 2015
What would happen if you couldn’t get to your hospital, work, or grocery store? If a vital road in your town was unusable because a […]