Congo Revival

Mission Initiatives

The Mission

To build a sustainable University Complex containing a modern international university (with branches in the Province of North Katanga) including housing for students, faculty and staff; high schools; hospitals (combining African herbal and traditional healing methods and modern techniques); playgrounds and sustainable agricultural land; road network and a healthy drinking water system. The university will be involved with various projects to fight poverty, ignorance, violence and diseases.

 

OBJECTIVES

The Congo Revival is an ambitious yet pragmatic assessment strategy that will study, evaluate and offer options to sustainably enhance the physical urban infrastructure of planned locations and human infrastructure by revitalizing townships and the local economy to create a center for international peace; develop the plans and build the University Complex. It will fully support the initiatives of the Bumuntu Peace Institute (BPI) established in 2010 with the support Dialogue Institute, a 501(c) (3) organization, the Enlightened World Foundation and the Halloran Philanthropies to promote the ideals of peace, education, dialogue and sustainable development in Central Africa, by dealing with the root- causes of conflicts and poverty in Africa. As part of the BPI initiatives, Professor Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Co-Founder and President of the BPI, has collaborated with Mr. Spiros Lazaris PE, an independent Global Infrastructure Consultant from the United States of America, and a Board Member of the Bumuntu Peace Institute to develop assessment strategies through Public-Private-Partnerships in the various cities in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Imminent sustainable solutions are required and warranted to prevent local infrastructure disasters with detrimental effects to local communities and livelihoods. New sustainable solutions are needed to provide the basic quality of life and to restore the physical and human infrastructure needed to make life livable and free of diseases due to unsanitary conditions, lack of waste removal, and lack of clean water in general. The goal of assessment strategies is to foster significant improvement in the performance and resiliency of the local physical infrastructure across the full spectrum of sustainability and provide the necessary tools and resources for human infrastructure to gain confidence and be productive in the community. The assessments will assess whether existing and future infrastructure projects are in line with the community goals and will benefit the community long term. Community involvement will be a requisite as community members should be considered important stakeholders in the decision-making process.

Phase I - COMPREHENSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT

TASK A - PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

  1. Assess the existing conditions of local streets, public roads, water supply, sewage collection and disposal including all other related civil infrastructure in various townships within the built environment of the Katanga province of the DRC and the scope of the BPI mission.
  2. Provide sustainable urban development solutions within the parameters of BPI.

TASK B - HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE

  1. Investigate the condition of the existing educational facilities in Kamina as well as primary schools, high schools, local universities and all nearby existing buildings and areas of need.
  2. Assess the viability of a new university and all related facilities; promote quality education; intercultural and interreligious dialogue; inter-ethnic dialogue; tools for conflict prevention and resolution; and promotion of business ethics.
  3. Study the viability of creating a center of education and resources for international peace by promoting democracy and human rights; providing sustainable development and introducing sustainable fiscal management via microloans.
  4. Extend similar analyses for future studies to other locations within the Province of Katanga by using this feasibility model.

PHASE II - CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY COMPLEX

  1. Continuance of comprehensive infrastructure assessment.
  2. Start construction of playgrounds.
  3. Finalize Grant funds secured for construction.
  4. Approve all engineering construction documents.
  5. Start construction of the university.
  6. Start construction of high schools and educational centers.
  7. Start construction of roadway network around university center.
  8. Start preparing agricultural farming within university campus.

INITIATIVES

DEVELOP:

An assessment strategy to build a non-profit university with a hospital surrounded with agricultural land connected through an improved local road network. An assessment of the existing conditions of the physical infrastructure such as roads, water supply, waste disposal, parks and existing educational facilities in the province of Katanga and other locations as needed within the DR Congo will be conducted to provide sustainable physical and human infrastructure solutions.

REASONS:

  • Imminent solutions are required and warranted to prevent local infrastructure calamities due to lack of maintenance or existence that will have a detrimental effect to the communities and livelihoods within the near future.
  • Restore the physical infrastructure and human confidence needed to make life livable and free of diseases due to unsanitary conditions, lack of waste removal, and lack of water in general.
  • New sustainable solutions are needed to provide at least the basic quality of life.

GOALS:

  • Foster a significant improvement in the performance and resiliency of the local physical infrastructure across the full spectrum of sustainability.
  • Foster a significant improvement in the quality of life in human infrastructure.

ASSESSMENT:

Assess the community's existing infrastructure and connect with all proposed future projects with community goals to benefit the community long term. Community involvement will be a requisite as community members should be considered important stakeholders in the decision-making process. The assessment strategy consists of two phases.