CIPIVIE USA - COVID-19 RESPONSE

Roch BORGIA - Vice-President International

We are caring for Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa families and communities, stepping up as a force for good!

Some 40 percent of Congolese ( DRC and Rep. of Congo ) live in water stressed environments in which obtaining access to clean water - let alone soap - is an insurmoutable daily hurdle, and for those populations, even simple measures to prevent the spread of the virus, such as frequent handwashing, will pose an existential threat. Sheltering in place for long periods of time - weeks or more - will simply not be possible.

Remote rural villages are likely to be hit especially hard by COVID-19. Medical services, electricity, potable water sources and internet connectivity are mostly lacking. They have already other killers: Mulnutrition and violence.

The extent of suffering may never be fully known. Lack of domestic capability to manufacture:

• Respirators
• Medicines
• Medical supplies starved of the basic resources they need to track and treat disease.

As a matter of urgency CIPIVIE is looking for donors for resources to install Handwashing stations and to resolve a critical shortage of Hospital beds, Respirators and Medicines in Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

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