James Kataliko has been supporting our efforts in eastern Congo since we first met James at the Healing Streams seminars in 2006. He was recently asked to disburse some funds as he best saw fit. This resulted in:
- Providing two mattresses, a battery and accessories for the Kalondo Health Clinic
- Paying the hospital bill for a young widow who had just spent three months in the hospital after giving birth. When she was four months pregnant, her husband, a builder, had been captured by MaiMai rebels and burned alive as he was travelling to a remote village to help build a health centre.
- Support for Samiela, the handicapped girl
- Additional funds for the local church which in turn can respond to needs
Asante sana, James!
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May 26, 2019 at 12:23 pm
National Geographic on Ebola | Bens in Congo
[…] James Kataliko assisted the author with translation work for seven days in order to make this article happen. I was pleased to recently supply James with a letter of recommendation for the prestigious French-African Young Leaders award. Good luck, James! […]
September 8, 2019 at 1:32 pm
Fatuma Receives The Help She Needed | Bens in Congo
[…] James Kataliko has proven time and time again that he is an honourable and compassionate man. He has proven it again. He was travelling with others near Lake Kivu, South Kivu when he learned of a local pygmy tribe. He used the terms indigenous and abandoned. As I understand it, these pygmies are essentially controlled by Bantu to work in Bantu fields. I hesitate to use the word enslaved but that sounds about right. While at a Pygmy village, James found Fatuma, a five year old girl who was very anemic due to malaria and malnutrition. She wasn’t expected to live much longer. Her parents had no means to get her medical attention. […]