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We have been operating in DRC, since 1977, which has allowed us to gain an in-depth understanding of the country and the capacity to respond effectively to the needs of the population. We carry out prevention, care and nutritional support activities for thousands of malnourished children and mothers; we also provide training activities on good hygiene practices, besides restoring wells and latrines. Additionally, we provide food and seeds and train farmers in techniques of product cultivation and marketing to enable populations to cope with food crises.
We pay particular attention to women and children by providing them psycho-social support and free health care. We manage prevention and protection projects against the recruitment of children in armed forces and groups; we support survivors of gender-based violence and other human rights violations, integrating the assistance for school and professional rehabilitation.
Projects
Source: COOPI Annual report 2022
Beneficiaries
Source: COOPI Annual report 2022
International staff
Source: COOPI Annual report 2022
Local staff
Source: COOPI Annual report 2022
08-04-2024
In Central Kasai Province, thanks to financial support from the World Bank, COOPI-Cooperazione Internazionale is implementing services aimed at strengthening...
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09-02-2024
For more than two decades, the Ituri district in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the scene of continuous armed conflict between different armed...
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06-02-2024
Kalima (fictitious name) is a 24 months old and a survivor. Thanks to the second phase of the project "Multisectoral integrated emergency assistance...
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19-12-2023
A mass in memory of our founder, Father Vincenzo Barbieri, was held on Saturday, December 16 at 11 a.m. at COOPI headquarters library. Members of our...
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24-11-2023
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 2 out of 5 children live in conditions of acute malnutrition. Daouda Mboji, the nutrition...
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24-11-2023
In Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, the population has been experiencing rampant violence since the outbreak of inter-ethnic conflict in 1999. Daouda...
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31-10-2023
Through the ECHO project "Multisectoral Integrated Emergency Assistance in Health, Nutrition, Protection, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene", which will...
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03-10-2023
The increasing numbers of crises between 2022 and 2023, due to the effects of climate change, natural hazards and wars, have thrown into disarray dozens of...
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13-09-2023
My name is Eric, I am 13 years old and I have been fighting with the CODECO militia for three years. I joined this group to fight alongside my community and...
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30-06-2023
Annuarité was not yet of age when she lost both her parents a few years ago. Left alone, she then finds herself carrying the child of a person she did...
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23-06-2023
On May 30, 2023, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, arrived in Bunia, in the province of Ituri, in the northeast of the...
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14-04-2023
Has just ended in Fataki-Djugu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the renovation of the Apemi office. Apemi (Association for the Promotion of Maternal and Infant...
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14-11-2022
In early November 2022 the city of Bunia, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, hosted an important visit by the resident ambassadors of the...
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10-11-2022
Marie (fictitious name), originally from Rethy, was 13 years old when she was abducted and forcibly conscripted into the conflict between the Patriotic Force...
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02-09-2022
Starting in October 2020, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the "Project to combat food and...
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29-08-2022
As of July 2020, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is active in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the "Project to combat food and nutritional...
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24-08-2022
From July 2020, COOPI - International Cooperation is operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the "Project to combat food and nutritional...
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04-08-2022
As of July 2020, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is implementing the EU-funded "Project to combat food and nutrition insecurity among the populations...
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25-07-2022
In N'drélé, in the province of Ituri in Democratic Republic of Congo, Daniel (fictional name) is a horticulturalist. After a difficult period...
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10-05-2021
On 30th March 2021, EU Ambassador for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Jean-Marc Châtaigner, together with his Delegation, went to the Bili-Mbomu...
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23-04-2021
An open letter to States and their Leaders from the civil society organisations working with and for the 270 million people facing hunger, starvation or famine...
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26-03-2021
More than 10 years after his death, Father Barbieri's work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly in Walangu, continues to set an example...
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22-02-2021
COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale expresses its deep condolences for the death of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca...
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15-01-2021
As of 1 January 2021, a new partnership contract between the European Union's Department for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and...
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15-10-2020
On Friday 9 October, the World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to...
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27-07-2020
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale launched an assessment to understand the effects of COVID-19 on food security in the communities where it...
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22-07-2020
Thanks to the RDC Humanitarian Fund funded project “Multisectoral humanitarian response to the most vulnerable populations of displaced, returnee and...
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22-06-2020
RCD – The pandemic emergency implied some changes in the realization of the project “Multisectoral health, nutrition and protection response for...
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28-05-2020
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, long years of conflicts threatened not only the community’s survival, but also altered the natural ecosystems of...
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11-05-2020
Covid-19 does not stop our humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Janvier Nigar, COOPI project manager of the Common Humanitarian...
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08-04-2020
Since 2019, COOPI reunited 62 children (29 males and 33 females) to their families of origin in the Djugu and Faradje areas in the Democratic Republic of the...
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08-04-2020
The Democratic Republic of the Congo – 15 kilometres road to access to the Upemba National Park, 9 veterinary pharmacies and 3 retail spaces are the...
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19-03-2020
From May to the 31st of October 2019, 4,058 children improved their education and protection thanks to the project “Multi-sector humanitarian response to...
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20-02-2020
Since 2016, the region of Kasai, in the central area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing a severe humanitarian crisis due to a violent conflict:...
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20-02-2020
Cattle traction and lakes’ management for local fish farming are two success pilot activities implemented by COOPI in the context of the European Union...
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29-01-2020
Since 2016 the province of Central Kasai, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is living a severe humanitarian crisis. The 2016 violent conflict, which has...
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21-01-2020
3,200 children in the territory of Djugu, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will benefit from the United Nations Common...
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02-01-2020
Since July 2018, repeated clashes between local communities and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Djugu territory, have resulted...
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06-12-2019
20 savings and credit groups (Association Villegeiose d'épargne et de crédit, AVEC), set up by COOPI with the support of the European Union,...
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02-12-2019
For 57,000 school-age children repatriated from Angola going back to normality is not easy – returning to school is difficult, not knowing French and...
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02-12-2019
On Thursday November 28th and on Monday December 2nd 2019, COOPI staff met the Consul General of Italy, Alfredo Russo, the Honorary Consul, Walter Noka and the...
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28-11-2019
In the province of Kwango, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, COOPI has established a systematic network of referrals that allowed to take care of...
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05-11-2019
In September 2019, 2,766 children from the Twa and Bantu groups in the Pweto territory, Upper Katanga province, participated in a school reintegration...
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05-11-2019
In September 2019, the number of reported cases of gender based violence and human rights violations increased by 63%. A major awareness-raising campaign...
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04-11-2019
Jean* suffers from severe acute malnutrition and has been admitted to the Stabilisation Centers (SC) in the territory of Luiza, where he has been hospitalized...
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31-10-2019
In September 2019, 4,150 health screening were carried out in community health centres in the territory of Kasai Central in the Democratic Republic of the...
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08-10-2019
In the territory of Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, COOPI is providing quality education to about 3,000 children returned from Angola, with a...
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16-09-2019
In March 2019, 260,000 cases of malnourished children were recorded in the provinces of Kasai, Kwilu and Kwango in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between...
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02-09-2019
In mid-July, a trade fair took place in Kamiji and Nyoka, Democratic Republic of Congo, where 789 families exchanged "vouchers" for food items....
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06-08-2019
Severe acute malnutrition rate has exceeded the emergency threshold by 14% in the territories near the Upemba National Park. To strengthen food security of...
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02-08-2019
The Upemba National Park in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been designated a UNESCO Biodiversity Reserve. Despite its rich...
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25-07-2019
The peaceful resolution of conflicts has never been tackled in schools in Upper Katanga where, since 2013, there have been clashes between the pygmy Twa and...
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03-07-2019
The province of Central Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recently become one of the most vulnerable areas when it comes to food security and...
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01-07-2019
Since 2016, the Kasai region and the territory of Kamiji, in the province of Lomami, has been the scene of violent clashes between the Armed Forces of the...
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04-06-2019
Last month, we organised a football tournament between the students of the Umuja and Fataki institutes took place in Fataki, in the northeast part of the...
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24-04-2019
Since 2016, the conflict between the pygmy Twa and the Bantu population caused the displacement of about 90% of the population of Pweto, in the province...
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16-04-2019
Poor hygiene, inadequate food practices and limited access to care are among the main causes of child malnutrition in the Ituri province, in the north-east of...
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16-04-2019
My name is Thérac-Ngadjanzale and I am Congolese. I am 59 years old, I am married and I have 6 children. Nzana is my youngest daughter and at the age...
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27-03-2019
Hostilities between the Lendu and Hema ethnic groups in the Ituri region, north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, resumed at the end of 2017, thus...
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06-03-2019
2,500 children aged between 0 and 5 have now been healed in the North Kivu and Central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where acute...
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25-02-2019
Last February 18th, Father Vincenzo Barbieri was remembered as a man who highly contributed to the well-being of the community of Walungu (Democratic Republic...
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14-11-2018
Fimi* is an 11-year-old girl with a difficult past. She has long been the victim of domestic violence by a family member in the village of Kapumbu Ntambwe,...
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15-03-2018
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, and particularly in the North Kivu Province, COOPI is carrying out a project financed by AICS (the Italian Agency for...
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11-07-2017
The green hills and moist land of Masisi, in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are the result of its grey sky. It is cold...
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28-06-2017
From war to hunger is a short step, if there is any. The conflicts that have been striking the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo since...
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31-03-2017
With a project funded by European Commission (ECHO) Humanitarian Aid, between April 2016 and March 2017 COOPI provided free health care to about 200,000 people...
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