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Our Programs.

Inkingi Club

“Strong Youth. Strong communities.”
Inkingi Club (meaning “pillar” in the local language) is a holistic youth movement launched in 2024 in Minembwe, Eastern DRC. In a region scarred by displacement, trauma, and the breakdown of education systems, Inkingi Club offers a structured path for healing and growth through running, faith- based learning, life skills, and community action.
The program is grounded in a 25-lesson curriculum that integrates:
Every session combines experiential learning, physical activity, and real- life application, encouraging youth to share what they learn at home and lead change in their communities. Inkingi is not just a program but rather a pathway to healing and leadership in a place where leadership is desperately needed.

Biblical identity and purpose

Created in God’s image

Life skills

goal setting, conflict resolution, communication, study habits, sports

Health education

nutrition, hygiene, puberty, HIV/AIDS, trauma healing

Physical fitness

weekly running and strength-based training

Leadership development

youth-led roles, team captains, peer facilitation

Prison Ministry

“We can plant seeds of hope, even in the most arid soil.”

The Prison Ministry is a holistic initiative that seeks to restore dignity, education, healing, and faith among incarcerated populations in the Great Lakes Region (DRC and Burundi). Rooted in the lived experience of its founder, who spent 15 months in prison, including 11 in Makala Central Prison, work is not theoretical. It is born of suffering, transformed into action.

In prisons where overcrowding, injustice, and neglect are rampant, this ministry offers a new vision: one where inmates are treated as human beings, not statistics — and where their time behind bars becomes a season of growth, not despair.
Program Objectives
  • Provide education and spiritual formation through literacy, vocational training, and theology of work.
  • Deliver psychosocial and faith-based support to inmates and their families.
  • Train prison staff in rights-based and restorative approaches to prisoner care.
  • Advocate for access to justice, including legal assistance for detainees without resources.
  • Prepare communities for the reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals
Tree planting in prison
Paint making in prison

House of Tamar

From silence to strength — this is the House of Tamar.

House of Tamar is a sanctuary of restoration, dignity, and strength for widows, orphaned children, and women-led households who have been abandoned, silenced, or forgotten. Inspired by the story of Tamar in Genesis 38, this program walks with women who have faced loss, injustice, or rejection, offering healing, economic support, and sisterhood.

As Tamar courageously resisted injustice and reclaimed her place in her lineage, House of Tamar equips women who have been silenced by war, abandonment, and systemic exclusion to rise, speak, build, and lead.

Just as Tamar’s courage carried forward the lineage of redemption, we believe these women are not victims of their story, they are mothers of legacy.

Objectives of the House of Tamar Program
  • Provide trauma-informed healing spaces where widows and orphans can process grief, reestablish their identity, and reclaim their voice.
  • Establish widow-owned TamarBanks (micro-VSLAs) linked to COOPEMI for savings, credit access, and small business development.
  • Engage civil society, traditional leaders and government in awareness and training to shift norms from exclusion to protection and justice.
  • Provide scholarships, mentorship, and safe learning environments for orphans and other vulnerable children.
  • Build a scalable, community-led model of post-conflict opportunities Document, evaluate, and replicate the House of Tamar approach across other communities affected by war and systemic exclusion through storytelling and writing the history not as a bitter memory but as a conquered battle.

Theology of work

Minembwe has experienced decades of violent conflict, ethnic division, displacement, and economic marginalization. The scars of war run deep in land ownership, community trust, and personal dignity. In such a context, “work” is more than just survival, it is a spiritual, political, and cultural battleground.

This program aims to offer a theology of work that is contextual, practical, and transformative. Building on biblical foundations, the African concept of Ubuntu, this initiative reclaims work as a sacred act of healing, peacebuilding, and resistance against injustice.

Goal

To heal and transform Minembwe through a contextual theology of work that restores human dignity, rebuilds peace, reconciles communities, and cares for God’s creation.
Objectives
Theological Formation
Equip local leaders and communities with a theology rooted in Scripture, local identity, peace, and development.
Peacebuilding Through Work
Promote reconciliation and inter-ethnic healing through cooperative labor, dialogue, and shared economic projects.
Environmental Stewardship
Encourage creation care as a form of worship and peacebuilding through community-led environmental restoration.
Economic Empowerment
Support justice-rooted enterprises that affirm dignity and reduce dependency, and promote shared benefit.