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Fight against hunger and poverty.

Hunger and misery.


Fundraiser of Ferdinandus Order 1561 (Source: Simone Mayer)
USPA NEWS - On the occasion of this year's Christmas celebration hosted the Ferdinandus Orden in his club-local, 1120 Vienna, Ruckergasse 52, Monsignor Dr. Laurent Lupenzu-Ndombi and was released for development "fight against hunger and poverty in the DRC" to pass a major donation.
The project was launched by Archbishop Dr. Laurent-Lupenzu Ndombi to life.
Over the years, many fans have been obtained, which together contributed to improving the living conditions of the population Kinkole's.
Drinking water, food, building and training were here as representative, especially a lot of joy, people in Kinkole to part.
The Congolese people risk everything - the last of the family money, their freedom, many years behind bars, and even life itself - to achieve the goal of her longing: Europe. There, they believe, rule wealth, there lay a paradise on earth.
However, was very different from the life of the Congolese priest Laurent Lupenzu-Ndombi Mwabilayi: No desperate escape, but an imposed his bishop of study led him to Austria. In Vienna he has - according to studies in the Congo, where 50 percent of the population is Catholic - earned the Ph.D. degree in theology. And in Vienna he has decided in the nineties to raise on his property near the Congolese capital Kinshasa, a development project.
"In 2000 I went to seven years for the first time come back to the Congo.
I mean, now I'll go back, "says Pastor Laurent," but in the meantime, the Cardinal needed a pastor in Vienna Gablitz. And they chose me. "
His home diocese in Congo's Mbuji Mayi in the central Congo, the diamond capital of about one million inhabitants. At the source of incredible wealth, there are also incredible poverty. Between the parastatal mining company MIBA and the thousands of mostly illegal Diamantenschürfern who have no other options exist, there is an ongoing guerrilla war, murder, corruption, prostitution, violence. Most victims are between twelve and fifteen years old.
The Ferdinandus Orden 1561, with many points of contact in Austria and abroad, since its founding association law tried the poorest of the poor little to shed light on her often dark existence.

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Account number: 4161-0803.89
Bank Code: 15025
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