Where Resilience Meets Action
At Nguvu ya Uvira, every program begins with listening. Our six core initiatives have been shaped by meeting the stated needs of the beneficiaries .These programs are not imported solutions. They are local answers, led by Congolese people with the knowledge, trust, and vision to rebuild from within.
Fighting Severe Malnutrition
Kwashiorkor, a severe malnutrition disease characterised by protein deficiency, is rife in Uvira. While there are organisations that distribute food aid, it often doesn't reach the intended beneficiaries, as it is diverted, stolen, or sold. So we do things differently.
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Our Combat Contre le Kwashiorkor program feeds malnourished children on-site, multiple times a week, under the care of medical staff. For less than $40, a child’s life is not only saved , it is transformed.
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Since 2019, over 410 children have been brought from the brink of death to full health. Parents are educated, treatments are given, and the cycle is broken; not with handouts, but with hope and accountability.
Uvira Basketball Tournament
In a region where youth grow up surrounded by armed groups, mistrust, and daily hardship, the Uvira Basketball Tournament offers something different: connection, discipline, and hope. It brings together players from diverse ethnic groups, orphanages, and vulnerable communities to compete and grow.
Launched in 2018, the tournament has become a fixture in Uvira where the sport is used to replace fear with trust, and despair with purpose.
Women's Microcredit
In a country where banks require what most women don’t have, documents, collateral, or credit, we step in where they don't.
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Nguvu ya Uvira provides small, interest-free loans to women to start or grow their businesses. Soap-makers, vegetable sellers, tailors, we help women who were once excluded now feed their families, pay school fees, and run their own stalls.
Our Impact in Numbers
Peacebuilding
In Minembwe, a region scarred by ethnic conflict, we brought together 14 women from different backgrounds , not for dialogue, but for business.
Through joint ventures using shared equipment and start-up capital, we built trust through shared livelihoods.
When war returned in 2025, the programme was suspended, and we await resumption when the situation calms.
Sponsor a Village
Across Uvira’s rural hills and villages, people live with extraordinary resilience, but live day-to-day. Schools without supplies. Clinics without medicine. Fields without capital.
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Too often, international aid arrives with top-down priorities, short-term thinking, or one-size-fits-all solutions. Nguvu ya Uvira believes there’s a better way, one that starts not with donors, but with the villagers themselves.
Ad Hoc Humanitarian Support and Assistance
Floods. Conflict. Disease outbreaks. Displacement. Sexual violence.
In these moments, large-scale aid efforts are often too slow, too distant, or too generic. Bureaucracy takes time. But lives can’t wait.
That’s where Nguvu ya Uvira steps in: quickly, flexibly, and in direct consultation with those affected.
Whether it’s a mother displaced by war, a child cut off from school, or a survivor in need of emergency care, we act based on the stated nees of those in need.