Report: How Gifts In Kind (GIK) Improved The Well-being Of Children And Vulnerable Communities In DR Congo in 2023-2024

In FY23-24, World Vision DRC made significant progress in improving the well-being of children and vulnerable communities through the effective integration of Gift-in-Kind (GIK) resources in various sectors. The organization has distributed essential items, and some items are still being distributed in certain sites, such as RUTFs, new clothes, long-sleeved shirts for women; long-sleeved dress shirts for men, size S-M; baby blankets; coated fabrics or plastic blankets in rolls; bicycles or bicycles, as well as the installation of solar panels, and it should be noted that 3-wheeled hand-cranked transporters for the disabled have already been distributed to beneficiaries. These contributions have improved access to basic health services in remote areas, strengthened the capacity of the health system and enabled the health structures supported by World Vision to take on malnourished children who were previously dying of malnutrition. Protecting children and their parents.

“Our office still needs support in GIK because the needs are enormous in this very particular context, in all areas of intervention including Health, Wash, Livelihoods, Education and Protection, in order to effectively achieve the objectives for the well-being of children. Once again, on behalf of the Congolese people, I sincerely thank you for your valuable contribution,, Said Aline Napon, World Vision DRC National Director