Congo
In a recent letter to a local church Pastor Ise-Somo from the DR Congo — a large country, where many live in isolated jungle areas, revealed some of the costs for children to attend school in the Congo.
These included parents of primary schoolers paying $6 each for 3 months - a total of $18 a year for one child, and for secondary school students parents are paying $9 every 3 months – a total of $27 for one child in a year.
In spite of these relatively modest costs, many families really struggle to pay for school fees, medicine or clothes, so that education is often considered far too costly. But to us here in Australia, this is less than we might spend in a week on lunches!! Education is a right for every child and assists in so many ways to relieve the poverty cycle- it should be available to all.
In what ways can we provide Christian support to families of the Congo to ease their daily burdens? Will access to education relieve some poverty issues?
