Belgian-Congolese non profit organisation for the reintegration of young people in society.
The history of the Foundation Maisha began in 1995. In the region of the city of Lubumbashi, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the youngsters who had ended their professional training had difficulties to find a decent job. These young people, often children of the street, have to conquer various kinds of problems to return in society and to be self-providing: there is corruption, the labour-contract must be accomplished in an honest way to avoid exploitation, and the global situation of Congolese economy is not dazzling at all... All these difficulties prevent the young persons, even those with a professional certificate, from finding a job easily.
It is for this reason that some nondenominational volunteers, under the supervision of Rev. Father Johan Vanden Bussche, a Belgian Salesian father, organized to help these young persons. The objective of this commitment was that the young persons cannot come back from time to time to beg funds from their teachers (Salesian fathers), but that they become self-providing with assistance of volunteers, with organizational, moral and professional assistance.
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