(EVAPEV) Protection and multidimensional care of street-connected and vulnerable children
Kinshasa, Congo-Kinshasa
5 years
2022
To significantly and sustainably improve the resilience, protection and multidimensional care of street-connected and vulnerable children, and to promote their social and family reintegration.
The support also aims to help them return to school, integrate socially and professionally and, ultimately, become independent.
Objectives
EVAPEV supports children and young people at different stages of their journey, from the moment they arrive through to reintegration with their families or progress towards independence.
The centre provides reception, accommodation and support, as well as psychosocial follow-up. Education and training also play an important role: children can be enrolled or re-enrolled in school and young people can access vocational training. In particular, EVAPEV offers training in ceramics, which also makes it possible to include young people with disabilities in a learning pathway.
Family reintegration is another important part of the project, through family tracing, mediation, reunification and follow-up once children have returned home. EVAPEV also carries out awareness-raising activities within communities on children’s rights, violence against children and accusations of witchcraft.
Activities
In 2025, 73 children were housed and supported by EVAPEV, including 40 girls and 33 boys.
Of these, 39 children were enrolled or re-enrolled in school, with a reported pass rate of 98%. 15 young residents took part in vocational training, 13 of them in ceramics at the centre and 2 in childcare outside the centre.
During the year, 27 children were reintegrated into their family or a foster family and 3 young people were supported towards independent living.
Beyond the children in residential care, 122 children and young people were enrolled in school or trained in 2025: 69 were enrolled in school and 53 benefited from internal or external training. This figure includes the children housed and reintegrated as well as the young people supported within the community.
Finally, 3 young people found employment or developed their own business, and 646 people were reached through awareness-raising on issues including child protection, children’s rights and gender-based violence.