Category: News
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University students
We are delighted to be able to support two new students this year. We are continuing to support Aphia who started her degree in Agribusiness Management. She will be joined by Laurent taking a degree in Information Technology and Georges studying theology.
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Dennis is nearly back in UK
Dennis has completed 2,000 miles out of 2,400 by biking from London to Barcelona and back. He is helping to raise funds for us and it has been gruelling with temperatures even higher in France and Spain than here. Please sponsor him at :https://www.stewardship.org.uk/pages/BarcelonaBackToLondon
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Peace talks advance
Peace talks betwwen DRC and Rwanda and also more recently between DRC and the M23 rebel group appear to have been agreed. We wait to see what impact this will have on the country. News from the CME area is that the situation has been calmer.
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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…
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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…
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M23 impacts CME in Beni
Over the past two months, about 220 miles south of Beni, where CME operates one of its 3 hospitals, the M23, together with as many as 10,000 to 12,000 Rwandan troops, has overrun an area of eastern Congo that is home to more than five million people. In late January, the rebels captured Goma, the…