Information on the project
Preschool Education Workshop at the Health Centre.
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Organisation:
For its organisation, the CEDERI-Madimba depends on four bodies:
1) the General Assembly; 2) the Board of Directors; 3) the Management Council; 4) the Direction Committee, including Technical Service and Administrative Service.
Framework:
A training workshop organised for peasant leaders in the Emmaüs Centre of Kisantu.
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As its global objective, the CEDERI-Madimba aims at the socio-economical promotion of the rural world. Its four intervention areas are the following:
- training;
- health;
- drinking water supply and sanitation.
- reforestation for fighting global warming
Method and Level of Training:
The CEDERI Madimba wants not only to organise but also to train leaders for self-education. This training is provided through sessions organised at the Headquarters in Madimba. During the year, 2 sessions were given: the 1st gathered 29 attendees over 30 invited, whereas the 2nd gathered the CEDERI management on identifying the needs and setting up a system to improve the capacities of boys and girls through vocational training
Practical training of pupils and final year students:
Each year, the CEDERI takes pupils and final year students for practical training on the ground.
Training of pupils of secondary cycle:
- Medical section: 6 selected 4 registered
- Social, agricultural & other sections 3 selected 7 registered
Training of last-year and university students:
- Rural development & other sections 3 selected 12 registered
Consultation with local authorities
Preventative Medicine:
Prenatal consultations: 460 per year 38 per month
- Localities depending of the CEDERI Health Centre: 45
- Members of the Community Relay: 98
- Traditional deliveries registered: 7
- Drinking water springs built: 3
- Sanitized localities: 28
Preschool consultations: 962 women per year 80 per consultation
Vaccination of children under 5: 1072 vaccinations per year
Curative medicine:
Births: 467 births per year 39 per month
Patients received and cared at the Madimba Health Centre: 4249 per year 354 per month
Patients forwarded to reference hospitals: 36
Laboratory tests: 4249 per year 354 per month
Visits of patients by doctors: 51 visits organised 306 patients visited
To reduce the distance people have to travel—and therefore the expenses—in order to see a doctor, the doctor comes every Thursday to our Health Centre and sees the patients there.
Self-Financing of Project:
We must firstly rely on our own means; overseas support is only for strengthening our intervention capacity.
To our human potential, we can add the Centre's patrimony: pieces of land, buildings, houses and other production equipment. Our strategy is rooted in the fact that rural communities find by themselves active solutions for boosting promotional activities through becoming aware of the problems that exist in their environment.
In its present productivity stage, CEDERI-MARIMBA is self-financing by the following activities:
- agriculture, manioc fields and market gardening, poultry farming;
- reforestation;
- curative medicine: dispensary, maternity ward and pharmacy;
OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE:
Looking at the hunger and misery that are dominating the Madimba country, we are considering answering the real needs felt by the population in order to get closer to it. Therefore, the CEDERI, in consultation with the grassroots, intends to give priority to the following activities: health, training young people, agricultural activities such as duplication and distribution of improved manioc cuttings, improvement of watering places to fight against drinking water linked diseases, reforestation, aviculture and apiculture to reduce the food insecurity that is shaking the Madimba territory’s population.
CONCLUSION:
In every integrated development attempt, the individuals have to be at the core; furthermore, this process can be started within grassroots communities only when there is a motivation and an organisation that aim to promote and encourage the population to support the group's interests.
From the analysis of our concrete work on the ground, there exists today in the CEDERI-Madimba a real will to give structure to the rural world and strengthen the existing structures to reach financial self-sufficiency. Therefore, the said development will have to build itself from small farmer capacities, new relationships and motivations among the supporting bodies and smallholder organisations. The aim is to find out strategic priorities to ensure the strengthening of small farmer structures in relation to the strengthening of the economic capacities of the actors of development. At the level of leading bodies, special emphasis will have to be put on skills in management, negotiation, planning, but also on capacities of analysing the socio-political, economical and cultural context, the understanding of the ideology of the movement, the capacity for redefining the strategies and the behavioural habits in order to better grasp the problems that arise in their life environments.
Contact:
CEDERI-Madimba (Centre de Développement Rural Intégré) Integrated Rural Development Centre
(see CEDERI-Madimba's request for funding here.)
Download CEDERI-Madimba's Activity Report for 2009
Contact person: Ferdinand BISALU MVUAMA
Address:
Camp CEDERI
B.P. 215 INKISI (P.O. Box 215 INKISI)
Madimba Territory
Lower Congo Province
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Phone: +243 (0)99 340 4656
E-mail: cederimadimba@yahoo.fr
Map 3 The Lower-Congo Province
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Map 3.3 The Lukaya District/ Madimba territory
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Map 4 Scope of the health area of the CEDERI-Madimba
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