INSTITUT MEDICAL CHRETIEN DU KASAI !1 OFINSTITUT MEDICAL!5 CHRETIEN DU KASAI B.P. 205 KANANGA B.P. 205 KANANGA INSTITUT MEDICAL CHRETIENREPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU DUKASAI CONGO REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO Christian Medical Institute Hôpitalof – theEcole d’infirmiers Kasai – Ecole de laborantins - Serving – Service de santé communautairein Central - Service d’ophtalmologie Congo Service dentaire – Centre d’études et de recyclage Hôpital – Ecole d’infirmiers – Ecole de laborantins – Service de santé communautaire - Service d’ophtalmologie E-mail : [email protected] Service dentaire – Centre d’études et de recyclage B. P. 205 Kananga, Republic Democratic du Congo ; Email: [email protected] E-mail : [email protected] 2. Find a way to channel a greater percentage of donations back into that unpopular category 2. Find a way to channel a greater percentage of donations back into that unpopular category of “undesignated” gifts so that we can have the flexibility to apply them where A Periodic Newsletter operational needs are Issuethe most desperate. No. 41 But ifJanuary you cannot (and - thatMarch is understandable, 2017 of “undesignated” gifts so that we can have the flexibility to apply them whereA considering all the news stories one sees about mismanaged funds), then consider operational needs are the most desperate. But if you cannot (and that is understandable, designating gifts carefully to those things that are at the core of IMCK’s operational considering all the news stories one sees about mismanaged funds), then consider The current conflict in the Kasai has needs.I askedFor example the new: Specify IMCK money Administrator, for medicines and Kastin medical Katawa, supplies; Specifyto describe money designating gifts carefully to those things that are at the core of IMCK’s operational added new suffering and danger. for indigentthe conflict care (that in way the we Kasai can apply and it toto allrecount of the cost how aspects this of is their affecting health care); needs. For example: Specify money for medicines and medical supplies; Specify money Information for this newsletter comes SpecifyIMCK. money He for respondedfuel and mainte thisnance, month etc. The with list thiscould organized go on far longer response. than is for indigent care (that way we can apply it to all of the cost aspects of their health care); from those living in Congo, from IMCKpractical in this overview letter, but if you are willing to be engaged, we will have more dialogueThe on warsthese sorts in ofKasai ideas in andthe coming their weeks impact and months. on Specify money for fuel and maintenance, etc. The list could go on far longer than is partners, and from international news practical in this overview letter, but if you are willing to be engaged, we will have more sources. The Kamuina Nsapu 3. Help theus get operation the word out. of Nothing IMCK: lightens In Julythe burden 2015, more a than many helping hands. dialogue on these sorts of ideas in the coming weeks and months. insurgency arose in the Kasai, but hasThe Congodispute Mission erupted Network over is an excellent land between forum, but wetwo need your help in expanding spread to other regions. By January the listvillages of contacts in to two include different new churches, government congregations and grant-making foundations 3. Help us get the word out. Nothing lightens the burden more than many helping hands. that might become friends of IMCK. Spread the word that we are doing good things…but 2017, 216,000 people had been that wesectors need help…we in the cannot Kamuandu do it alone! Sector and in The Congo Mission Network is an excellent forum, but we need your help in expanding displaced and more than 400 killed, according to the list of contacts to include new churches, congregations and grant-making foundations the Dibatayi Sector of Dibaya. Many were humanitarian sources. http://allafrica.com/stories/ Together, we can make HIS work an even greater positive witness to the Congolese people. We that might become friends of IMCK. Spread the word that we are doing good things…but look forward woundedto a continued, and renewed, others long died.and positive The relationship! wounded that we need help…we cannot do it alone! 201703220739.html were brought by the government to the Kastin Katawa In the Kananga/Tshikaji area, where IMCK has two IMCK Good Shepherd Hospital, but campuses, people are living amidst conflicts between Sincerely, Together, we can make HIS work an even greater positive witness to the Congolese people. We those bills were not paid. Many people hid in the forest look forward to a continued, renewed, long and positive relationship! undisciplined militia and undisciplined government military. The Management of IMCK Mass graves have been discovered in nearby areas. UN during this conflict. After three months, the government deputies and notables negotiated a peace. investigators have been killed. At military road barriers, Sincerely, citizens experience unpredictable harassment. Schools have A year later in August, 2016, another dispute erupted in the closed for fear of conflict. Some IMCK staff have left the The Management of IMCK same Dibaya territory in the Nsapu village. This started area. Regional famine and insecurity are insidious amidst conflict and government deterioration. Unless political issues when the government disputed with Chief Kamuine Nsapu of the DRC improve soon, people of Kasai are entering even of Bajile Kasanga, coming to arrest him. He was not there more difficult times for fundamental common good. and apparently they harassed or molested family Thomas Aquinas posits that there are three irreducible members, escalating local response to conflict. This natural communities or societies: the family, the political conflict has spread to the following provinces: Central common good, and the Church. When one does badly the Kasai, Tshikapa, Kamonia, Kasai Oriental, Limami, others tend to try to absorb the responsibility of that Wikong, and Sankuru. particular society. Considering that ancient premise today In Congo, where the state is failing, the Church (witness the In the context of this conflict, I address the impact of these Association Sans But Lucratif – Ord.-N° 70-319 du 30-11-1970 Catholic Bishops) is trying to act in surrogate as a moral two wars on IMCK, one of the major medical institutions of M. KABIBU BIMVULU, Administrateur voice and functional society. In the US, where families are M. NTUMBA TSHITENGE,central Représentant Congo. Légal Most of IMCK’s revenue is from payments Organismes religieux et communautaires participants à cette œuvre missionnaire : failing, the state is trying to create safety nets to be the COMMUNAUTEby PRESBYTERIENNE patients AU CONGO,receiving COMMUNAUTE medical MENNONITE AU careCONGO and from tuition paid by EGLISE DU CHRIST AU CONGO, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA, MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION functional "family" for those without normal families. In the AFRICA INTER-theMENNONITE students MISSION, CHRISTOFFEL in the BLINDENMISSION, medical EZE programs. (EGLISE PROTESTANTE Expenses D’ALLEMAGNE) include atheistic world, esp. communist countries like China, where costs of caring for the sick and the payment of 150 wage there is no real Church presence, the state magnifies itself to workers, [many of whom teach in the medical programs.] be a kind of Church giving meaning to everything. Congo Association Sans But Lucratif – Ord.-N° 70-319 du 30-11-1970 During this time, IMCK has served 1,304 patients, needs our prayers and aid. But the people of the Congo also M. KABIBU BIMVULU, Administrateur regardless of whether they could pay and including M. NTUMBA TSHITENGE, Représentant Légal look to those communities, state, Church and family, to help Organismes religieux et communautaires participants à cette œuvre missionnaire : families of retired workers. We operate with the following COMMUNAUTE PRESBYTERIENNE AU CONGO, COMMUNAUTE MENNONITE AU CONGO restore a good life with hope & joy. Submitted by Charlotte White EGLISE DU CHRIST AU CONGO, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA, MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION To help IMCK, contact Admin. Kastin Katawa at partners: Congo Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian AFRICA INTER-MENNONITE MISSION, CHRISTOFFEL BLINDENMISSION, EZE (EGLISE PROTESTANTE D’ALLEMAGNE) Church USA, Medical Benevolence Foundation, SANRU* [email protected] and cc Bill Rule at [email protected]. Donate directly this way: and Friends of IMCK. CPC TMB Bank Funds Transfer Information Located 14 KM outside Kananga, IMCK receives patients BANK NAME - TRUST MECHANT BANK Bank address 7Boulevard Lumumba, ,Commune de from Kananga, surrounding villages and neighboring Kananga,, Kananga, DR CONGO provinces. Since conflicts started in 2015, attendance of Account Name ECC 31ème CPC patients to the hospital has diminished due to the clashes Acct number 1290-3208693-00-09/USD between the government and the militia. All roads leading Bank email - [email protected] Bank website www trust merchant bank.com to Tshikaji are militarized, with barriers on many roads. The SWIFT - TRMSCD3L military make people pay in some way to pass the barriers. Corresponding Bank - Citibank Passengers wearing red are arrested, since that is the Currency - Account is in US Dollars color of Kamuine Nsapu. (Cont pg. 5 - Impact of War) IMCK Board needs to meet in May: The IMCK Board, which2 meets twice a year, is composed of members of the Congo Presbyterian Church, The Congo Mennonite Church, The Presbyterian Church USA, and IMCK administrative members. The last Board meeting was held in Nov. 2016; attendees are listed on the last page. The newly elected Board Chairmans is Rev. Jean Tshidinda Mamba. Considering the conflict in the area and the fact that IMCK is serving so many people caught in this conflict, Administrator Kastin Katawa recently sent an email addressing the need for the next IMCK Board meeting to be in a secure place. Administrator Kastin Katawa preposed that, due to the conflict in the area and the urgent matters of IMCK, the Board meet in May in Kinshasa .