Hi, my name is Mimi Kashira Haws, I live in Kingston, Ontario, and I am originally from DR Congo. I am the founder of Pastor Kashira Foundation for Widows and Orphans, a humanitarian charity based in Goma since 2004.

Hundreds of war-displaced are suffering just outside Goma right now with no help. Abandoned and forgotten by the world, with no social services to intervene, women give birth without anything to cover their newborn babies. People are hungry, vomiting, and diarrhea is getting out of control. Medical care is becoming another big emergency concern. People sleep on bare volcanic floors inside their mediocre tents; it is cold and rainy.

Let’s not be silent nor close our eyes to the suffering of many women and children who have been caught in the crossfire for years, the forgotten victims of the Congo’s ongoing and unending wars.

Please help the Kashira Foundation to get medical supplies, bread, blankets and tents to the many needy in the camp.

1. USD 15 is the cost of a blanket that can save a life from cold

2. USD 10 is the cost of a straightforward tent that can shelter a family.

We are also supporting retired, elderly, abandoned pastors.

Although retirement by itself can be a challenge for everybody in the world, it has been a painful

life’s experiences for many of the identified retired, elderly pastors in Goma and all around the DRC where poverty is already the way of life to start with. Most of these ministers learned to live with an allowance of $50 monthly during their times as church leaders and soon as they retired, the income is suspended. Not knowing what else to do, most of the time weakened by health issues, these pastorshave been left in sickness and in pain with no care. In DRC there is no social services, no foodbank, no salvation army to help the hungry, no shelters to help the destitute, no government to provide social assistance, no access to free medical care either. Many lives end in excruciating physical pain, no palliative care either.

We are identifying the most vulnerable of the elderly, retired pastors in Goma and are providing them with a monthly $50 allowance to cover the cost of living.

On behalf of the Pasteur Kashira Foundation for widows and orphans

Mimi Kashira Haws