https://www.congoriverjourney.org/make-a-donation daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/171ecb0f-a8f8-4b2b-bdab-b34eb063fdd0/NSHG5070.JPG Make a Donation - Sr Yasmine caring for a patient https://www.congoriverjourney.org/our-mission daily 0.75 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1571765659352-6FGCI542VTC2QT1C3A9B/Congo+Lukelela+Map.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1571767043014-HJIZ0LMDDTFJO6ARNN1M/IMG_0572.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1574603888161-XFEWCW2TC0DUL9WOX3TW/IMG_1674.JPG Our Mission A typical house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1575391958236-CVGZOGS2AM0GBBK1W2BP/IMG_E0755.JPG Our Mission It is a big improvement from this, our previous building which lacked sufficient space and during the peak malaria seasons would have 2-3 children per bed and others on the floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/41f0da2f-5ce1-40e1-884d-a9f0386f66ec/IMG_4510.jpg Our Mission We recently finished our isolation building which will help us to be better prepared for any type of epidemic. Before it was finished, we used it for a cholera epidemic. (In the past 10 years we have had epidemics of cholera, mpox, measles and polio.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1592721169587-I564BRFF3J26HZGZLDWT/IMG_E2991.JPG Our Mission We inaugurated our new Stabilization and Intensive Care building on June 12th, 2020, which is used to stabilize patients such as those who come in coma or severe anemia from malaria, etc before transferring them to the medical/surgical services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1575387394392-DL8MRDQES0YOBSITMMYK/IMG_1073.JPG Our Mission A new patient arriving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/55059f60-e9d9-4803-ab61-38b4b946ddf9/IMG_E2780.JPG Our Mission In September 2024 we completed the construction of a new Internal Medicine building with the help of the Italian Bishops Conference and your donations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/72f6c6de-b261-4c76-8e7e-00bd3cca7117/IMG_8043.JPG Our Mission On December 23rd 2022 we inaugurated our new Emergency Room and Administrative Office building, built totally with your donations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/4f2a9a40-5ab4-4d55-bacf-91db9db59615/IMG_2427.JPG Our Mission Pediatrics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/e2c84920-a671-457c-ae51-82f99b199185/IMG_E3051.JPG Our Mission Our OB/GYN building is the next building we hope to replace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1622627204781-E954LGMZNUR4ZVO8B7UF/PXQY7641.JPEG Our Mission This building was constructed in 2020 with your donations. It provides rooms for our psychiatric patients and 4 isolation rooms for certain infectious diseases (tb, measles, monkeypox, polio, tetanus, etc). The building was completed 12/2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/965bd864-b542-4540-bd21-e894abb84ac5/IMG_E3813.JPG Our Mission The operating room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1b5c9d50-219e-46ea-a1a1-e94eab972aae/IMG_1882.JPG Our Mission Patient families sleeping outdooors https://www.congoriverjourney.org/home daily 1.0 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/0739a80d-098f-4e0f-93c3-f4c922a6664f/2B13269D-946E-4F31-9D9C-A4B27E65A0B5.JPEG Home - The Daughters of Charity are making a difference in the healthcare of thousands of people... St Vincent the Servant General Reference Hospital, Lukolela, Democratic Republic of the Congo. There are 9 Daughters of Charity who serve in Lukolela to staff the hospital, school and social services. Sister Mary Felice, Medical Director, a missionary from the US since 19 yrs, and native Congolese Sisters, Sr Yvette, Director of the Pharmacy, Sr Yasmine, nurse, Sr Christine, Director of Social Services. The Daughters of Charity first came to Lukolela since 1933, and started a health center, but because of the lack of hospitals in the area it grew to be a General Reference Hospital, with 130 beds. (The photo to the left is from our new Emergency Room built in 2022 with donations.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/04778c77-2131-4bb3-83df-020d6fdfc99a/IMG_E1906.JPG Home The hospital serves a health district which spans an area of 8700 miles squared, with a population of 204,165, but it is the only hospital for a much larger region. The hospital is located 118 miles from the nearest city. One must travel by boat because the roads are in very bad shape or nonexistent. Patients often come from far. It is normal in rural African hospitals that patient’s families do the cooking, laundry and help the patients with their hygiene. It is required that a member of the family be present with each patient at all times. Our hospital has made much progress with your donations. We recently finished the construction of a new isolation building, which was used for a cholera epidemic before it was finished and we hope to one day rebuild our OB/GYN department. https://www.congoriverjourney.org/get-involved daily 0.75 2025-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/4baa7e6c-1c3b-4bfa-80cf-46c2e6b25d50/IMG_2267.JPG Get Involved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1576308250538-4XM1SG50LPCX1CPJV45H/IMG_E2202.JPG Get Involved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5daf2ac65bac5f5c44e6ad5a/1576308509714-E2FDYOWTIE3Y466EPD2L/IMG_E1841+%281%29.JPG Get Involved Our Social Services Department prepares a meal for the poor each day.