Congo Crisis - Tumblr Posts
Please take the time to read and share this🙏
Together we will make a difference
For every ‘Free Congo’ item purchased, we donate directly to a globalgiving.org project dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating these children, offering them a path towards a brighter, hope-filled future.
A child is not a toy, a weapon, a tool, or clay that you can mold into whatever you want. A child is a child. A person. And deserves respect and does not deserve to be forced to die from grueling labor that adults don't want to die from. Free Congo. End child slavery.
Please take the time to read and share this🙏
Together we will make a difference
For every ‘Free Congo’ item purchased, we donate directly to a globalgiving.org project dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating these children, offering them a path towards a brighter, hope-filled future.
CONGO GFM LIST
(DISCLAIMER:i cannot find any traditional vet posts for these, but they are all from here and here. Both of these sources are shared around a lot and seem very legitimate to me personally, but fyi I do not vet fundraisers. Many of these are by prominent organizations though, so please please donate if you can.)
CHF15 out of CHF2,000 source (Supporting Malaika!)
€11,917 out of €50,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€55,305 out of €75,000 source (Organized by Goma Actif!)
$14,650 USD out of $20,000 source (Took refuge in the United States around a year ago. Still need financial support; extremely large family)
€118 out of €5,000 source (GFM description is in French)
$13,696 USD out of $86,000 source
€403 out of €1,500 source (GFM description is in French)
$15,922 CAD out of $50,000 source (Organized by Goma Upendo!)
£3,900 out of £10,000 source (Organized by Focus Congo!)
$9,873 USD out of $20,000 source
$5,010 out of $45,000 source (Supporting Peace African Hope!)
€1,792 out of €2,500 source (GFM description is in French and Dutch) (Supporting Mamma Jeanne's Ophanage! x x)
$34,377 CAD out of $40,000 source
$1,917 USD out of $2,500 source
€2,050 out of €2,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€34,891 out of €30,000 source
$24,106 CAD out of $20,000 source (Supporting Focus Congo!)
$2,936 USD raised of $2,000 source (Organized by The Jaliyaa Project!)
(Please note that, although I did link organizations that I could find further information and verification on, this doesn't mean you shouldn't at least look at the other fundraisers here.
Everyone deserves your concideration.)
Reminder by the way! One of the best ways you can help the Congo even if you can't donate is boycotting!
Only buy secondhand electronics! Do not support any of the companies contributing to the horrible cobalt mining practicing in DR Congo! More information here!
CONGO GFM LIST
(DISCLAIMER:i cannot find any traditional vet posts for these, but they are all from here and here. Both of these sources are shared around a lot and seem very legitimate to me personally, but fyi I do not vet fundraisers. Many of these are by prominent organizations though, so please please donate if you can.)
CHF15 out of CHF2,000 source (Supporting Malaika!)
€11,917 out of €50,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€55,305 out of €75,000 source (Organized by Goma Actif!)
$14,650 USD out of $20,000 source (Took refuge in the United States around a year ago. Still need financial support; extremely large family)
€118 out of €5,000 source (GFM description is in French)
$13,696 USD out of $86,000 source
€403 out of €1,500 source (GFM description is in French)
$15,922 CAD out of $50,000 source (Organized by Goma Upendo!)
£3,900 out of £10,000 source (Organized by Focus Congo!)
$9,873 USD out of $20,000 source
$5,010 out of $45,000 source (Supporting Peace African Hope!)
€1,792 out of €2,500 source (GFM description is in French and Dutch) (Supporting Mamma Jeanne's Ophanage! x x)
$34,377 CAD out of $40,000 source
$1,917 USD out of $2,500 source
€2,050 out of €2,000 source (GFM description is in French)
€34,891 out of €30,000 source
$24,106 CAD out of $20,000 source (Supporting Focus Congo!)
$2,936 USD raised of $2,000 source (Organized by The Jaliyaa Project!)
(Please note that, although I did link organizations that I could find further information and verification on, this doesn't mean you shouldn't at least look at the other fundraisers here.
Everyone deserves your concideration.)
Reminder by the way! One of the best ways you can help the Congo even if you can't donate is boycotting!
Only buy secondhand electronics! Do not support any of the companies contributing to the horrible cobalt mining practicing in DR Congo! More information here!
About 48% of the world's cobalt reserves are in Congo, but 70% of the world's mined cobalt comes from there.
Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe - and there are hundreds of thousands of poor Congolese people touching and breathing it day in and day out.
The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We can’t ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. It’s a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.