Gabkul Foundation

Gabkul Foundation is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) Non-Profit Organization with locations in the United States and El
Congo, Bongolo. Our only objective is to help people with special needs in El Congo.

We are able to develop our projects with the financial assistance coming from good-hearted people
and companies interested in giving to the needy or simply looking for a tax deduction.

Gabkul Foundation needs financial and material aid from all sources to be able to extend its operations. We want to conduct research and identify those children in need for medication, education, Christianity, fight against hunger, basic skills and other. The money actually generated is not enough to keep up with the demands of the population. Therefore, any assistance provided will be greatly appreciated. We want to fight against hunger and raise awareness for the environment in order to create good health habits. The money actually generated is not enough to keep up with the demands for medications and medical supplies. Any type of help is well received, from sponsorship for children, school fees, uniforms, books, even a small amount of money for food!

After the war, the Cities were swamped with handicapped as well as amputated children, victims of mines and other types of weapons. Over million children need as much help as they can get.

We need wheelchairs, orthopedic equipment & other.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country affected by extreme poverty and where the economy
and social structures have collapsed. The quality of life includes hunger and poor or malnutrition causing various illnesses and physical malformations. The statistics shows it as an extremely population, from which at least 50% does not have access to potable water, 60% does not have access to health care and 40% is analphabet. As a result, over 30,000 children die every month from easily preventable and treatable diseases such as diarrhea, malaria; measles, infections disease and malnutrition.

Since 1998, GABKUL FOUNDATION has used every minimal resource available to provide following assistance programs:

We Locally make orthopedic equipment such as: shoes, artificial hands and legs for handicapped and physically challenged; provide wheelchairs, orthopedic braces, walkers and lift
Promoting and protecting the interests of deaf and hearing impaired.
Providing medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to orphans, abandoned children and less fortunate people.
Repairing and providing equipment to hospitals, schools, churches, etc.
Providing school equipment (including literatures and computers).
Provide each health center with essential drugs, equipment and medical supplies, clinical and management training and support.
Identify most vulnerable persons (widows, orphans, and elderly, handicapped) and provide free
health care. Provide medical supplies and training to improve reproductive health services at the health center level. Improve vaccination coverage for pregnant women and children under five.

We provide also assistance to hungry children whose parents are disabled. We can make a difference but we need your help for the life of physically challenged.

Our Mission is to enable, educate and improve the quality of life for people with physical challenged victimizes by the civil war, primary children and street children not disabled but whose parents are disabled caused by the civil war. All children are equal.

Our goal is to make the regular environments of our communities more special for everyone, especially for persons with disabilities and vulnerable groups.

Our scope: Education, general health care, poverty, assistance to vulnerable population.

Statistics done by the foundation result that most of the street children, abandoned, but not amputated come from family where one or both parents have lost legs, arms or double amputations due to war, mines or other accidents. This is why the foundation as extended the activities from amputated children to abandoned children as result of amputated parents. Once the parents get back on their feet, most of the children return home.

An amputee is a person who does not have both arms and legs, or complete hands or feet. Some amputees are born without these limbs, while others have had them removed through war, landmines, accident or disease. Amputees may use prosthetic limbs for function, mobility, orthotics appliances, and cosmetic purposes. They may use mobility aids such as canes, crutches or wheelchairs. Theses prosthetics and orthotics can be providing by an orthotist and prosthetist
An orthotist is a healthcare professional who makes and fits braces and splints (orthoses) for patients who need added support for body parts that have been weakened by injury, disease, or disorders of the nerves, muscles, or bones.
A prosthetist is a healthcare professional that makes and fits artificial limbs (prostheses) for patients with disabilities. This includes artificial legs and arms for patients who have had amputations due to conditions such as cancer, diabetes, or injury.

With the appropriate education and training, a person can work as both an orthotist and a prosthetist (Ortho-Prosthetist). We are doing our job with an or-pro Gabriel Kulemfuka.

Orthotists create and fit patients with splints and braces to support weakened body parts and help correct physical defects such as disabilities from a stroke, polio or a spinal cord injury. Prosthetists build customized artificial limbs (legs, arms, hands, etc.) for people who have lost or are missing these body parts.

The concept of disability and the way they cope with it depends on the culture and the region. However, it is mainly considered as negative.

All disable people are said to be damned, victims of bad luck: they are therefore refused by their families and community. In particular, disable women and children: the former, simply because they are women and disabled, are often victims of sexual abuses. The latter, because they are often considered useless, have no education and their families refuse them.

In Africa, the disable are mainly excluded, victims of social and economical discrimination. They are not given the right to education and job. Disability is therefore cause of poverty. African disabled people are among the poorest in the world and most of time illiterate too.

It is stated that 50% of disability forms the world people suffer from can be forseen and are directly connected to poverty. African disabilities surely depend on: malnutrition, infections and diseases, work accidents, lack of hygiene and landmine cause by the civil war.