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Your actions today can create lasting change
Donate NowIrene's path out of lifelong poverty
Irene’s childhood was marked by hardships – her father was killed in conflict when she was a child. With very little support, Irene's family lived a difficult life. Every morning, her mum would go to the fields to grow yams. Sometimes that’s all they ate.
“We survived thanks to my mother’s sacrifices,” Irene explained.
Irene’s mother often went without the basics to send Irene to school when she was young. But it was at school that Irene was sexually assaulted by a classmate and became pregnant while she was still a child herself.
Irene harvests in her field Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Arlette Bashizi/Caritas Australia
$100
can help a community member in the Democratic Republic of the Congo set up a small grocery kiosk, generating household income by selling essentials like bananas.
Irene poses for a portrait at her home in Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Arlette Bashizi/Caritas Australia
$200
can give a young person access to life-changing counselling and care for 6 months to work through the trauma they have endured.
Irene sews clothes with a group of women she mentors as part of the Caritas-supported youth empowerment program in Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Arlette Bashizi/Caritas
$500
can give the gift of vocational training, offering somebody in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the skills they need to succeed in their chosen field.
