Growing up in Congo was wonderful. While I was home-schooled I spent mornings doing my schoolwork and then after lunch I went off to meet my buddies to hang out with them until suppertime. My parents never worried about me because they knew that all the Congolese on the station would look out for me. I loved the freedom. We went fishing, canoed along the bank of the river, played soccer and other games, walked to Mbandaka (six miles each way), walked into the jungle…

…when she returned for a brief visit to Bolenge over 30 years after she had had to give up the work she loved, students who heard on the grapevine of her presence walked many miles to greet her and recount how hard she had made them work and how, when the time came for them to take state examinations for employment, they found easy what their fellow candidates struggled with. Nothing they could have said could have pleased her more, for teaching was a much-loved vocation.

He was good-natured, loving, thoughtful, loved a good joke, and took his calling seriously. The Congolese responded very well to his personality. They soon learned that he loved and respected them, and they loved him back. Whenever he went into the backcountry he took his shotgun and filled the stewpots of his meat-starved hosts.

Dr. Robert N'Kwim talking about the abundance of women at UPC and how they are contributing to building a stronger Congo.

I invest in Education Congo to provide scholarships to Congolese university students who d

Grace Banza Ilunga has been a scholarship beneficiary for four years.

Michael lost his father at an early age, but other relatives stepped in to help pay for his education prior to university.

"As soon as I finish medical school, I plan to return to my home in Ituri Province to treat war refugees who can't afford medical care."

To be helped by people I didn't even know taught me a lot of things—and when I can, I too will try to help people like you have.

Every year, more and more women are applying to UPC's computer science school. This year 30% of first-year students enrolled are women.

Imagine having to carry your sick child to the river on a hot humid day in the Congo. …You then embark on a 3+hour journey…

Celeste spent her internship year at the rural hospital in Vanga where she found her calling. Witnessing so many children dying of malaria in Vanga had a tremendous impact on her. Influenced by her professor Dr. Thierry Bobanga, she decided to pursue parasitology to participate actively in the eradication of malaria.

Education Congo scholarship recipient and graduate of Université Protestante au Congo (UPC) is now serving as an MD in the remote, rural village of Moma.

Kasololo M.   Kasololo, age 23 and eldest of five siblings, lives in a municipality about 30 minutes’ walk from the university. He is a...