This Giving Tuesday, help families in DR Congo build a stronger future.

What's Happening in the DR Congo?

Years of conflict and displacement have disrupted livelihoods and made it increasingly difficult for families across the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet their basic needs. According to the World Food Programme, 26.5 million people, nearly one in four Congolese, are facing acute food insecurity, while millions have been displaced from their homes. The crisis is especially severe in eastern DR Congo, where violence continues to affect families’ ability to farm, earn an income, access markets, and build a secure future.

“The DRC continues to face one of the world’s largest and most severe hunger crises.”
– World Food Programme, 2026

How is Tearfund Responding?

The challenges families face in DR Congo cannot be solved by short-term assistance alone.

Through our partnership with CBCA, local churches are helping communities move from dependence toward greater confidence, collaboration, and resilience.

Together, communities are:

developing climate-smart agriculture and kitchen gardens

forming savings groups

starting small businesses and income-generating activities

strengthening local skills and livelihoods

identifying local resources they can use to solve community challenges

bringing women, youth, displaced families, and people with disabilities into community decision-making

The goal is not simply to meet a need today. It is to help communities build the relationships, knowledge, resources, and confidence they need to shape their own future.

Meet our Local Partner

Tearfund Canada partners with the Baptist Community in Central Africa (CBCA), a network of local churches deeply rooted in communities across North Kivu.

Because these churches are already part of the communities they serve, they understand the challenges families face and can walk alongside them for the long term. Through Church and Community Transformation, pastors, church leaders, and local facilitators help people come together, identify the resources and skills already around them, and take practical steps toward a stronger future.

Today, this work is taking place across five CBCA church districts in Beni and Lubero territories.

What Your Giving Tuesday Gift Makes Possible

When you give this Giving Tuesday, you are not stepping in to solve a community’s problems for them. You are coming alongside local churches and families who are already working toward change.

Your gift helps equip churches and community leaders to bring people together, identify local opportunities, strengthen livelihoods, grow savings, develop sustainable agriculture, and take action using the resources available to them.

You provide the opportunity. Local communities lead the change.

GIVE TODAY FOR LASTING CHANGE

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Call us (toll-free) at 1-800-567-8190.

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WHY DONORS TRUST TEARFUND

Transparent & Accountable

Tearfund Canada is a Top 100 charity (Charity Intelligence) and a certified member of the Canadian Centre for Christian Charities, subscribing to its Seal of Financial Accountability.

Government Matched Giving

Through our membership with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, many of our programs are matched by the Canadian government—multiplying the impact of your donation.