About us

The Good Samaritan is a non-profit organization founded with the goal; help and support for homeless children in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The children, sometimes very young, are usually referred to as 'street children'.

Providing safety and help to improve the lives of these children, return to school and facilitate promising reintegration into society are main goals of our organization.
In the midst of despair, abandonment, and neglect, we help the street child from a Christian perspective to realize and understand that there is hope and not all is lost.

In Kinshasa, capital of the DRC, children have to deal with various situations, such as poverty, unemployment, sudden loss of parents due to divorce or death.
Especially worrisome are unscrupulous influential people from churches abusing, falsely accusing that the children are children of witches and wizards. Unfortunately, these consequences of superstition and suspicions are often at the root of the children being abandoned and rejected by their families or guardians.
The only alternative the children have left is the street...
In all cases, the street offers little or no security except that the children are exposed to all kinds of crime, exploitation and prostitution.

By taking these children off the streets, they stop being victims of corrupt government officials, greedy pimps and oversexed soldiers who take advantage of their hopeless situations of vulnerability to abuse them, make them believe that their lives are worth nothing, that they have no place or meaning in society, etc.

The Good Samaritan wants to offer help, initiates projects, including learning to read and write, teaching them a trade, wants to monitor the children and promotes their social reintegration. Even though the children are neglected or feral, they are all born with talents that deserve to be guided and developed. The Good Samaritan Foundation, in collaboration with local organizations, wants to invest in this, in giving meaning to the lives of children.