Giving Back's Giving Back to Africa, Inc
Giving Back to Africa Inc is raising money for Giving Back to Africa, Inc
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the least developed countries in the world. DRC ranks last in the world in GDP per capita ($400) (CIA 2013). GBA is committed to focusing on DRC's new generation of young people. Without investment in an education that teaches children critical thinking and problem-solving skills, the DRC's children will continue to be open targets for exploitation and abuse rather than citizens and servant-leaders in their communities. The need for this project was determined through listening to the community, conducting research and working with our Congolese colleagues. Through ongoing observation and research with leaders in the Mpasa II community, we discovered that education and leadership development for students can serve as a solution to their problems. GBA develops ongoing programming that links what happens in the classroom to community issues that impact students' everyday lives.
Giving Back to Africa's education program goals are to empower and strengthen the resilience of young students and improve community knowledge and health through training a new generation of leaders who have the ability to think critically and problem-solve as a way to resolve real issues within their communities of Mpasa II and Kinshasa. Program goals include continual improvement of teacher and student peer-to-peer training, and enhancement of student and teacher knowledge about community health issues and how to address these issues, seeking to improve the community nutrition and address issues of malnutrition through the thriving Student Learning Gardens that were implemented in 2017 and continue to be maintained.
Our program goals also include education programs that help to prepare student leaders who have the ambition and will for opportunities to enter local and international collegiate programs, improve the local economic development, have successful careers in agriculture and reduce corruption in Kinshasa.