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Food, education, and humanitarian aid for the DRC

AILE Foundation exists to close the gap between a child's potential and their access to food, school, and safety. Every gift funds three connected areas of work: daily nutrition so a child can concentrate in class, school fees and scholarships so a child can stay enrolled, and humanitarian aid so a family can meet urgent needs during displacement, disease outbreaks, and conflict.

Hunger is what takes a child out of class first

In many homes the family eats once, late in the day. Children leave for school on an empty stomach, or they do not leave at all, because the walk is long and there is nothing to walk on. Teachers see the same thing every term: children sitting in the room, present but too tired to follow the lesson.

Hunger also decides what a family gives up. When the money runs out, the school fee is the first thing to go, and the child who stops eating well is usually the child who stops learning.

A child who eats on school days stays in the room. A child who stays in the room finishes the year.

22%

of the population faces acute food insecurity

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When a school closes, a child's whole day empties out

Across the east, classrooms have been shut or turned into shelters for displaced families. The children who used to sit in them are now at home, in a market, or on the road with their parents. Every month out of school makes coming back harder, because the class has moved on and the fee has not gone away.

Girls carry the heavier end of this. When school stops, they are the ones sent to fetch water, to sell, and to look after younger children, and they are the ones most at risk of being married off early.

School is the one place where a child's future is still open. Keeping a seat costs far less than getting one back.

49%

of the children shut out of school are girls

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Displacement means starting again with nothing

Families leave in the middle of the night with what they can carry. What comes next is a shared room or a shelter, water that is not safe to drink, and no soap, no mattress, no schoolbooks. Cholera and measles move fast through places like this, and children are the first to fall sick.

Most of the people who need help this year are children. They are living through a crisis they did not cause and cannot understand, and the basics are what stand between a hard year and a lost one.

Clean water, a dignity kit, and a safe place to sleep are not the end of the story. They are what makes the rest of the story possible.

54%

of the people who need aid are children

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Sources: UNICEF DRC Humanitarian Action for Children 2026 and the IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Analysis, July 2025 to June 2026.

Your gift in real life

What your giving actually pays for

AILE works through partner schools, orphanages, and community centers, with a team on the ground in Lubumbashi. Here is what a gift turns into.

An AILE team member handing a hot meal to a child in the DRC

A meal at school

Food bought from local farmers and markets, cooked and served where children already are, so that coming to school also means eating that day.

A school fee, paid on time

Fees, uniforms, and books paid directly to the school, so a child is not sent home in the middle of a term and a parent is not choosing between rent and a classroom.

Families receiving supplies at an AILE distribution in the DRC

Basics for a family starting over

Dignity kits and humanitarian aid for families who have been displaced: soap, hygiene items, clothing, and the everyday things that are the first to disappear.

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