Rebuilding Destroyed Health Centers

Empowering compassionate faith-based Congolese

Compassion Congo exists as one effective measure to impact suffering of the oppressed, the victimized, the mutilated of body, mind and spirit, those who have no hope and have no voice, the destroyed families, the widows, the orphans, left behind by the 3.9 million already dead because of a war supposedly over several years ago—yet 45,000 continue to die each month.

Our mission is to restore hope by partnering with the local healthcare and medical community in eastern Congo to provide charitable surgical care and education.

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Dirksen article published in SSVMS journal

The Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society (www.ssvms.org) has just published my article, Where Do You Begin? Thirty Years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)…with photos, in their current edition (Jan/Feb 2011) of Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine.

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Light at Rwanguba Hospital

Light comes to Rwanguba Hospital & Maternity:  Recipient of Soroptimist of Greater Sacramento Grant  Soroptomist International of Greater Sacramento has just provided a grant for necessary funds to install solar florescent lighting at  Rwanguba Hospital and maternity.  This 100-bed hospital just across the border from Uganda and 60 miles north of Goma, DR Congo, has [...]

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  • ...a daily miracle, a healthy newborn.
  • ...a small gift and a world of gratitude.
  • demolition site awaiting new women's/children pavillion
  • The building collection of Rwanguba Hospital
  • Rwanguba nurse-practitioner students...all 88 of them.
  • Refugee camp on the edge of Goma
  • Dr. Phil training Congolese surgeons
  • ...steam coming out from under the front seat...stopped dead in our tracks!!

About CompassionCongo

Compassion Congo is a medical mercy mission providing charity surgical care, sanctuary and rehabilitation for rape victims, and medical training in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.