ABOUT THE PROJECT:

Kikesa is a project that started last year. This year we continue building on the realisations of last year but especially on the new objectives that are set. So the first objective of the project is ensuring the maintenance of what the students did last year by checking if everything is still working and, if everything works well, looking for ways to improve the structure. Part of the project is located in some sort of crevasse (a deep open crack). People who live there have created canals to evacuate the water because there is a high risk of flooding when it rains but these canals could benefit from improvement. Kikesa would like the students to find a way to improve the existing canal to help people living in the crevasse. Another goal is to explore the possibilities for plantation to stabilize the soil in the crevasse. Because of erosion, it is moving and plants could help to reduce (or even stop) the movements. These plantations should be usable for the local community to sell (or transform to sell later) and get economic empowerment from it. Finally, the last dimension of the project would be sensibilization.  We are going to try and inform the people in the neighborhood on what the AFD project aims to do and how this could benefit them. 

The Centre Pour Handicapés Kikesa is a school which was founded in 1968 in a district of Kinshasa by three young Congolese who had recently returned from their studies in Belgium.  They want to support the integration of people with disabilities in the Congolese society by providing them vocational training. The three main goals of VZW Kikesa are therefore: 

-Physical rehabilitation

-Education and vocational training 

-Socio-professional reintegration