The Health and Development fund supports a number of projects.
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Kanzombi Clinic |
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 The Kanzombi clinic located in an interior town called Kikwit (pop:
>500,000), has been one of the major health centers in the city for
15 years but has not been able to achieve a hospital level of care due
to lack of resources. Some examples include lack of operating
instruments and electricity for the operating room, mattresses for the
beds and diagnostic equipment for the nurses and doctors.
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BTEDE |
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 BTEDE is a local initiative providing expertise and resources for the
over 30 associations in its membership. Each association has projects
which they manage, mainly agricultural, though some are commercial
(soap making, juice production). BTEDE offers expertise and counseling
in the form of
site visitations, seminars and a small resource
center. BTEDE also distributes resistant manioc cuttings and palm
seedlings and helps initiate vegetable gardens.
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Libota Clinic |
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 Libota is a small clinic officially sanctioned by the government to
provide healthcare for a community of about 9000 in the city of
Kinshasa. Recently, through funding from donors through MBMSI, donated
equipment and financing from the Belgium and Canadian Embassies, an
expansion project has been started and almost completed including a
maternity, x-ray room and pharmacy.
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Bon Berger |
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 The Bon Berger clinic is a small but very significant upstart by 2
young medical graduates in a very poor Kinshasa neighborhood. Since
its conception as a 1 room clinic in 2003, it has grown in popularity
being the only clinic with doctors in a neighborhood of about 150,000.
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Tovidi |
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 Centre de Santé Tovidi, was started about
10 years ago as an initiative of the Delvo MB church in Kinshasa (pop.
6-8M), DRC. The centre is located about 2 km from the church on the
main highway in the neighbourhood of Delvo. Like most other Kinshasa
communities, the neighbourhood suffers from substandard sanitation,
open sewers and lack of drinking water resulting in poor health,
malnutrition and reduced life span.
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Community health clinics adequately supplied with medicine and medical
supply are necessary to promote preventative health and offer quality
curative health care. We would like to assure for each of the 30
clinics in our target area, basic diagnostic and laboratory equipment,
minor procedure instruments, usable beds and an acceptable building. 
Kajiji Hospital is the chief reference hospital for a health zone of
180,000 people located in southern DRC. It was built in the ‘50’s by
missionaries and was handed over to local administration in the ‘80’s.
However, with the transition of ownership went also the resources such
as supplemental budgets for medical supply and medicine. In addition,
the Kajiji hospital has become the central office for the health zone
which consists of 18 struggling clinics. 
Tembo Hospital is really a clinic forced to be a hospital in an
isolated area with a rapidly growing and poor population. Their needs
include a building, operating instruments, solar electricity,
mattresses for the beds and diagnostic equipment for the nurses and
doctors. 
Educating competent nurses is one of the important elements of
delivering good health care to the population. We have targeted 3 rural
nursing schools: one in Kikwit and the other in Kajiji. 
In 1985 the gross primary school enrolment was 87% as compared to 50%
in 2000 as a result of poverty. The quality of education has suffered
even more due to corruption and lack of materials. We would like to
help support the over 50 schools in our target area by providing
materials, books, teaching aids and a building rehabilitation fund. 
Packing a 40’ container with certain medical supplies is an excellent
way to provide low cost consumables for health clinics in Congo. It
also provides a method of transporting purchased equipment such as
microscopes, surgical instruments, diagnostic equipment and other much
needed items.