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Helping rural populations through Priority Actions for Relief and Development
Like so many private voluntary organizations (PVOs) that have been formed during the last 30 years, the story of the creation of Christian Relief and Development, Inc. is the story of motivated development agents (health professionals, teachers, and economists) who joined hands for the creation of the CRDI that is currently supporting relief and development activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The purpose of this initiative is to work with local indigenous communities to address their priority needs for relief and development. Those needs include addressing priority health issues and problems, water and sanitation, food security/agriculture, and micro-enterprise development that can contribute to improved living conditions in rural and farming communities of the DRCongo initially, and in other central African countries in the near future.These initial efforts of April 2003 have reinforced the board members belief that CRDI is indeed a valuable asset to initiate development activities in central Africa starting with the DRCongo.
With the experience of the founding members of the organization, CRDI is emerging as a solid organization with reputation for quality in the development of health development activities that will make a difference in the lives of impoverished rural communities in the DRCongo and the neighboring countries. The CRDI challenges are to build on the enthusiasm and the availability of the board members to serve as volunteers and consultants for the establishment of community-based curative and preventive services with the required level of finance that can strengthen the CRDI headquarters office in the U.S., and the field office in the DRCongo.
Christian Relief and Development, Inc. (CRDI) has specific and reasonable goals and objectives for the development of rural communities in central Africa and we need everyone’s involvement and support so that we can realize our dreams of improved health status and well-being of the population in the future.
