| Sector | Social, healthcare |
|---|---|
| Location | Kinshasa |
| Amount | 24.000 € |
| Start date | March 2022 |
| End date | December 2022 |
| Sponsors | Rotary International, Rotary Roma nord-est, Medivac srl |
| Project status | Closed |
The project is part of the Program of the Sant’Agostino College of Kinshasa, active since 2017.
The objective of the project is to create a cleaning cooperative to provide jobs to parents of poor families and avoid child exploitation.
The project is part of the program of the Sant’Agostino College of Kinshasa, active since 2017 with its programs to combat child labor.
After the first years of the project, with some difficulties, we managed to involve several women whose children can go to school today.
The aim of our project is creating a cleaning cooperative in order to be present on the market with a structured and well-organized group. The cooperative will be hosted in a room of the school to be adapted and each member will be offered a training course, uniform and material to use. Furthermore, the cooperative’s operators will be trained and equipped to also deal with the sanitization of environments to ensure compliance with government indications to combat Covid-19.
The cooperative, in addition to anti-Covid 19 sanitisation, will also equip itself for other types of intervention, especially external, aimed at combating other much more serious pathologies such as measles, ebola, malaria or cholera, which every year claim thousands of victims in Congo.
Since 2023, the benefit company Medivac srl has donated a machine to the cooperative to produce sodium hypochlorite-based disinfectant. Thanks to the NaCLO equipment, up to 30 liters of disinfectant per day can be produced simply and almost free of charge. Sodium hypochlorite, once diluted, can be used to disinfect an operating room or fruit for eating. The young entrepreneurs also organized themselves to sell the product to other structures, increasing their income and spreading the importance of hygiene.
