WElcome to MY CHILD & ME INC.
Helping Abandoned Mothers
with Children
Together We Can Change Lives
Who We Are
We help mothers help themselves and their children. My Child & Me, Inc. is a non-profit organization committed to stabilizing families by elevating the quality of life of the abandoned mothers with children living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My Child & Me recognizes the devastation of war and sexual violence against women in the Congo and specifically its impact on mothers with children. My Child & Me’s mission is to provide these abandoned mothers with education, life skills training, and tools to enable them to provide for their families and become contributing members of their society.
OUR IMPACT
These are our impact figures over the years.
FACTS
WOMEN IN CONGO
Violence against women and girls in the Congo are "deep-seated cultural norms"
Congo was called the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman.
48 women are raped in the Congo every hour.
CHILDREN IN CONGO
Parents pay for their children to attend elementary and high schools.
The costs for education are almost as high as the per capita income.
Only 50% of children age 6 - 11 attend primary school.
Cities in the Congo may host as many as 20,000 street children.
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40% of women and girls have been raped in the Congo. These women are often shunned and abandoned after sexual assaults. The stigma of rape compels hundreds of thousands of men in eastern Congo to shun their wives and abandon them. As such, many mothers in the Congo are raising families alone.
These abandoned mothers with children are among the most vulnerable in the society. They live in abject poverty while having to provide for a family, shouldering the burden of shame, physical and psychological trauma, unwanted pregnancies alone.
These mothers are ill-equipped to raise their children in a healthy environment. As such, sex crimes and child labor have increased among “street children”. The impact of abandonment on these families is a general denigration and deterioration of the family unit as a whole.
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PO Box 673,
Ashburn – VA
+1 773-431-1269
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