Author: Justin Burdon

  • Orphans project update

    Orphans project update

    The orphans project has received a significant donation from a funding organisation. This adds to your donations to the project and together they will allow us to provide food, schooling and clothing for our orphans during 2026. This is great news. The orphans project has a huge benefit to the individuals we can support. It…

  • Pray for peace in the DRC

    Pray for peace in the DRC

    We join today with many people around the world to thank God for a truce in Gaza and a possibility of peace in that ravaged place. However peace remains a distant prospect in eastern DRC. There has been a recent increase in violence in the region served by CME. Villages and churches have been attacked.…

  • Dennis does it again!

    Dennis does it again!

    Dennis Tailor has completed another huge personal challenge by cycling 2400 miles from London to Barcelona and back in July. He aims to raise £10,000 for the work CME does to support orphans, and also for RETT (UK). We are very grateful for all the funds that Dennis has raised and thankful that he arrived…

  • Dennis the amazing fundraiser

    Dennis the amazing fundraiser

    Dennis Tailor is at it again. Having completed several challenges to raise funds for Friends of CME he is now embarking on his latest and possibly greatest adventure. He is cycling 2400 miles in June from London to Barcelona and back. That is a lot of miles and possibly some sore legs. Please go over…

  • Support for orphans and their families – Spring 2025

    Support for orphans and their families – Spring 2025

    Thanks to your ongoing generosity Friends of CME has been able to continue supporting orphans at school and university in Eastern DRC. This is despite the high level of ongoing conflict in the region that causes so much instability and disruption to people’s lives. CME staff and their contacts run the programme and are responsible…

  • DRC Unrest

    DRC Unrest

    In 2025 Eastern DRC is experiencing a significant increase in warfare, resulting in deaths, displacement and disruption of lives across the Goma and Bukavo areas. The causes of the unrest are multiple and complex. CME works in areas affected by the violence. We are asking for people to pray for CME. Please pray for safety…