All Target SARL team visited this Friday 9^th of September, 2016, Mazzarello house, which is an orphanage managed by SALESIENNE sisters of Don Bosco in Sanga Mamba neighborhood, a western suburb of Kinshasa. This was an opportunity for Target to bring some goods in kind to daughters under care of sisters and also to encourage nuns that are taking care of them.

Mazzarello house is going through serious difficulties. Since some years, it is hardly receiving donations. Most of International NGOs that used to help this orphanage redirected their action towards the Eastern part of DR Congo. Now this organization is operating only thanks to willing people such as Target that visited this orphanage by using the Agency 5 year’s birthday as an opportunity to demonstrate love.

Besides, Mazzarello house as well as Sanga Mamba neighborhood where it is located is under a landslide threat. Distribution of electricity is rare in addition to drinking water shortage.

“Here, when there is electricity in the night, we are boiling water to drink and we keep it. We also wisely use this time to boil beans. And we also have a small garden planted and well – arranged by kids. Presently, we have got thirty four kids”, Explains Sister Marie Carmel, the Orphanage Officer.

After creating this orphanage in 1988, sisters realized the importance of sending daughters to school. And this was how Don Bosco School started, it is a school organized as nursery school, primary and secondary schools currently having 800 pupils.

“I was here since I was 10 years old. I completed my primary and secondary school here. Then, I took a bakery – pastry training. I spent 22 years of my life at Mazzarello house. This house provided me with everything, joy, family... And today I got married and I am building my own family. That is why I encourage daughters to keep on hoping. One day life shall be brighter, everything will be fine”, Mathilde LUZOLO LWA NZAMBI testimony.

She maintained a good relationship with Mazzarello house and sometimes, daughters still living with sisters are spending a holyday at her home.

Serge Mumbu, Target General Manager explains why his company needed to make this donation: 

“A company should not only seek its own profit, it has also to work for improvement of environment and life conditions of people through special donations to needy. It is what we call ‘a company social responsibility’. Since its creation, Target always dedicated a portion of its income to assist needy people and we wanted for this 5 year’s anniversary, to visit this Sanga Mamba orphanage after meeting Mrs. Mathilde LUZOLO LWA NZAMBI that told us her story and shared with us current difficulties this orphanage is going through.”

The remaining of these pictures to be seen on Facebook.