Bukavu is a city of around 1 million people in the East of the DR Congo. It is a centre around which there is a great deal of rebel activity. Many women are left as widows and they struggle to make ends meet and care for their children. ACLUP seeks to identify the poorest Christian women and assist them to establish and operate small businesses so they can become financially independent.

There are many communities near to Bukavu that are in desperate need of safe water. In 2021 BHW partnered with ACLUP to successfully provide water for the Chikera community (DRC08a) and after seeing the dramatic impact this had on that community, they are now keen to continue doing water projects in many more villages.

The Orphan's Place of Peace was established in July 2018 when Rev Israel Ngirababo decided to start taking care of children who had been orphaned when their parents lost their lives during different rebellion wars that happened, and continue happening, in the eastern part of the DR Congo.

Two decades of violence in the DRC has left behind millions of deaths, widows, orphans and elderly living alone, and general vulnerability among communities. There are overwhelming numbers of survivors of sexual based violence within communities and church congregations. Recently, the Evangelical Alliance of Congo has identified 90 victims of sexual violence who are living in particularly terrible conditions.

After living in Burundi for a number of years, in 2015 Paulin Bashombana returned to his hometown of Bukavu, DR Congo, and very quickly realised that there was a big problem in eastern DRC, and something needed to be done. There were large numbers of orphans in the community, living on the streets, so Paulin brought them together, found ways for them to be able to study and has placed some of them in the homes of Christians from their different churches.

Paulin is a man with a vision. He wants to fight against poverty in his community and see his community escape the vicious cycle of poverty they are in.

The Rehema Ministry seeks to select needy orphans and vulnerable children within the church setting in the town of Bunia and to provide them with education assistance.

LASI was established in 1991 when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was in full cry. Pastor Bingi was just a young man and in his ministry met many people experiencing such trauma because of their circumstances that they were in no position to hear the good news he preached to them. He therefore determined that he had to become more closely involved with people to be able to deliver the words of life so he established LASI to advocate for people and help them.

Sowers International has been operating in Lubumbashi for a number of years, struggling along with little support or growth. Since 2007 it has been reactivated and is now developing. For the work to grow it requires someone to lead and champion it, Emmanuel Kakudji is that man and this partnership provides financial support for the work including support for him and his wife.

Bunia Central Prison has approximately 1,200 people incarcerated, with men, women and children all in the same prison. Some of the children were born in prison. Jacqueline Atido and her team go into the prison every Saturday and conduct a Bible study as well as providing Christian counseling to any who need particular help and prayer.

There are many vulnerable children in the Katanga Province of the DRC, in particular in Likasi, a mining city of about half a million people. A group of Christians have decided to care for as many of these abandoned children as they can with their own resources. Currently there are about 50 children being assisted.

There are many issues in Beni and Bunia, primarily because it is a volatile area with many stake-holders. There is little hope that the major conflicts will end in the near future but even if they do, there are many traumatized people with little chance of resuming life without some form of assistance to do so.

Rehema Ministry currently focuses its ministry to equip vulnerable children with basic education at primary school level. While the present support programme is extremely valuable to the parents/caregivers and children, offering a secondary school chance for these vulnerable children would be an incredible help as it will lead them to a vocation that will sustain them in life and keep them away from the danger of going onto the street where their future may be completely ruined.

The dream is that Centre Amani ("Peace Centre") will be a safe space, where children and young people in Bweremana, Democratic Republic of Congo, have the opportunity to consider and begin to fulfil their potential.

SPCM operates as an umbrella organisation for Sowers International in the DRC and for ACIS, a Christian ministry to deaf people. This project will provide employment and an income for people from both organisations who will work in it.

The Cula river remains the only water system close to the population of Chikera town. During the rainy season the river overflows, sweeping away everything in its path, and presents a high risk of drowning for adults and children who go there to fetch water.