Protection of Children, young girls, and women working in mining

About this project

This project aims to contribute to the protection of women, girls, children from abuse, Child labour in mining areas and help them to re-integrate into normal and/or recuperation schooling system while strengthening the livelihood means around their family livelihood systems. It is a 10-month project. The project will seek to significantly reduce child labour in mining areas by providing sustainable alternative livelihood opportunities to parents. The project will be undertaken in Mwenga territory in South Kivu Province, DRC. The project will seek to reach a total of 200 direct participants and 2500 indirect participants. This will include entrepreneurship training on small start-up businesses of their choice and the provision of start-up funds which will develop to establishing links with other local existing credit access firms intended to the parents for sustainability purpose. Increase access to and support for primary education, particularly in mining communities. In order to maximize the impact of this activity, the activity will be done through the parent (preferably mothers) of the child who will benefit from the income generating activity in order to be able to pay the school fees of the child in the local school. In the same line, it will also strengthen the family livelihood means helping the child to have food in order to divert the attention of the parent to send them to work in the mining. This support will be extended to children especially girls who are unabl…

Published by

CAFOD · International NGO

Countries

Congo - Kinshasa

Sectors

Vocational trainingPromotion of mental health and well-beingCivilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolutionEmployment creationFood crop production

Focus

Environment · Main focus

Funded by

Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD)

Implemented by

Centre Olame

Published by CAFOD to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Jun 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-CHC-285776-DRC815.

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