Fund practical, high-impact projects
Help Durable Solutions Congo fund practical, high-impact projects that strengthen church-run health facilities and communities across the Democratic Republic of Congo. Your gift can provide solar power, clean water, medical equipment, infrastructure repairs, technical assistance, clean cookstoves, or agroforestry support.
Every project listed below has a donation code. Please choose the fund you would like to donate to during check out and the code will be attached to your donation.
Community Solutions for Health, Home, and Environment
Durable Solutions Congo supports practical community-based projects that improve daily life while strengthening long-term resilience. Clean water systems expand access to safe water around health centers, clean cookstoves reduce smoke exposure and household fuel costs, and agroforestry woodlots help restore tree cover, provide sustainable cooking fuel, and improve food security. Together, these projects create healthier families, stronger communities, and more sustainable local systems.
Clean Cookstoves for Healthier Homes
Help families access clean cookstoves that reduce smoke exposure, protect forests, lower cooking costs, and support healthier homes and stronger communities through a practical, scalable solution now.
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Bring Clean Water to Kambote Health Center
Help fund a solar-powered water system at Kambote Health Center, bringing reliable clean water through four distribution stations for patients, staff, and nearby families who depend on the center now.
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Planting Woodlots in Kongo Central
Help plant community woodlots in 10 Kongo Central villages with fast-growing trees that restore land, provide renewable cooking fuel, improve soil health, and strengthen long-term food security.
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Plant Woodlots in Kasai
Help Durable Solutions Congo establish community woodlots in 10 villages in Kasai Province, where deforestation has made cooking fuel harder and more expensive for families. Using fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing trees, these woodlots will support clean cookstove communities, restore local tree cover, improve soil health, and help make daily cooking more sustainable. This $20,000 campaign will provide a practical, long-term solution that strengthens families, protects the environment, and supports greater food security in Kasai.
Sponsor This ProjectEquip Health Facilities with the Tools to Save Lives
Medical equipment, computers, reliable internet, and transportation can transform what health facilities are able to do for their communities. As technology becomes more affordable, hospitals, clinics, labs, and schools in Congo have new opportunities to improve diagnostics, protect blood supplies, strengthen surgical care, computerize records, and expand access to training.
DSC helps raise funds for appropriate equipment and organizes the training needed to ensure each tool is used well. Your gift can help provide essentials such as blood bank refrigerators, anesthesia machines, solar lab refrigeration, computers, Starlink internet, four-wheel-drive vehicles for medical teams, and other practical equipment that helps local partners serve more people with better care.
Solar blood bank refrigerator
Help IMCK safely store donated blood with a reliable blood bank refrigerator, keeping lifesaving blood ready for emergencies, surgeries, maternity care, and patients who need urgent care.
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Solar refrigerator
Help the PAX lab install a solar refrigerator to safely store temperature-sensitive supplies and samples, strengthening reliable lab services even when electricity is unstable for patients and staff.
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Power Seven Health Facilities in Kinshasa
Help bring reliable solar power to seven Presbyterian Church of Kinshasa health facilities, where electricity is inconsistent or unavailable, strengthening safer care and daily operations.
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Energy-Efficient LED Lighting for IMCK
Help replace old fluorescent lights at IMCK with efficient LED tube lights, improving visibility, lowering energy use, reducing maintenance, and creating safer, brighter spaces for patients.
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Starlink with Solar Energy for IMCK Admin
Help fund a $20,000 solar system for IMCK administration and Starlink, providing reliable power for communication, internet access, records, and daily operations.
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Power CPC Girls’ School with Solar Energy
Help fund a $2,000 solar system for CPC Girls’ School, providing reliable electricity for classrooms, lighting, administration, and a safer learning environment for students and teachers.
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Anesthesia equipment
Help provide new anesthesia machines for IMCK and PAX to strengthen safer surgery, emergency operations, and maternal health care for patients and families who depend on reliable care in Congo today.
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Computers for medical training
Help provide computers for ISTM and UPRECO, expanding access to digital learning, research, recordkeeping, and training resources for future health workers in Congo.
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4x4 Drive Vehicles for Medical Outreach
Help provide four-wheel drive vehicles for the CPK medical department and CPC, improving, emergency response, supply delivery, and access to remote health facilities in Congo.
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Starlink Internet for Medical Training
Provide Starlink internet for ISTM and ITM, expanding reliable connectivity for digital learning, administration, and training for future health workers and faculty in Congo.
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Desks for CPK Medical Schools
Help provide desks for CPK schools, giving medical students sturdy places to learn, write, study, and grow in classrooms that better support education in Congo.
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Palm Oil Press for Rev. Jacky
Help IMCK Chaplain Rev. Jacky purchase a palm oil press to expand soap production, generate benevolence funds, and support patients and students who need financial help.
Sponsor This ProjectStrengthen Health Care Through Technical Assistance
Help Durable Solutions Congo provide hands-on technical assistance to church-run health facilities like IMCK. Through regular support trips, teams of doctors, computer specialists, and technicians help improve computerized accounting, leadership, quality of care, project evaluation, medical services, and urgent facility needs.
Quarterly trips to IMCK cost about $5,000 each, with funds covering travel, essential equipment, labor, and immediate problem-solving. This campaign also supports specialist doctors serving at IMCK, including short-term medical placements that strengthen care for patients and build local capacity.
Support a Quarterly Trip to IMCK
Quarterly technical assistance trips to IMCK cost about $5,000 each, helping cover travel, essential equipment, local labor, urgent repairs, and hands-on support to solve immediate problems and strengthen care systems for patients daily.
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Support a Specialist Doctor at IMCK
Help bring a specialist doctor to IMCK for $2,000 per month, strengthening patient care, supporting local medical teams, expanding access to needed expertise, and helping families receive higher quality care close to home in Congo today.
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Continue Support for the Sthreshleys
For churches and individuals who have long supported the Sthreshleys, giving through Durable Solutions Congo offers an efficient way to continue that partnership and sustain their work with IMCK and church-run health ministries in Congo.
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Bring Dr. Boyd to IMCK
Support Dr. Boyd’s placement at IMCK for three to six months, helping provide specialized medical care, strengthen local teams, expand hands-on training, and support patients who need expert care in Congo. Funding need: $9,000 to $15,000.
Sponsor This ProjectBuild Essential Health and Training Infrastructure
Support critical infrastructure projects that help church-run health and training institutions serve safely and effectively. Durable Solutions Congo verifies needs, obtains multiple quotes, and confirms completed work so every project is practical, accountable, and built to last.
Current priorities include replacing the leaking roof at Mayamba Health Center, constructing a female student dorm for ISTM, and supporting a practical training building for future health workers.
Replace the Roof at Mayamba Health Center
Help replace Mayamba Health Center’s leaking roof so patients and staff can receive care safely, even when it rains. This $7,000 project will restore a usable space for services.
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Build a Female Student Dorm at ISTM
Help build a female student dorm at ISTM, giving future health workers a safer place to live while they study, train, and prepare to serve patients and communities across Congo.
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Build a Practical Training Center at ISTM
Help build ISTM’s practical training building, giving future health workers hands-on space to learn clinical skills, strengthen training, and prepare to serve patients across Congo.
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Our Partners
Our work is made possible through strong local and regional partnerships. We collaborate with organizations, community leaders, technical experts, and funders who share our commitment to practical, long-term solutions for water, sanitation, and community health. Together, we combine local knowledge, hands-on implementation, and sustainable design to create systems that communities can maintain and build upon.
