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Congo Restoration Site Visit 2023

Join us in Africa this summer to visit Congo Restoration

We are leading our first ever trip to Eastern Congo this July! I’ve traveled three times to Bukavu, DRC, and now feel ready and excited to bring some of you with me. Below are the tentative details. But first, I want to share the why.

I was talking to a friend from work — an adventurous and frequent traveler — about this trip as I thought she might want to join us. She asked for a few details then ever-so-politely asked this: “So why would I want to go?” It was an excellent question (thank you Katy). Then another friend posted this below on Facebook (thank you Angela).

The why might be different for different people, but this is the core of it:

The women of the Congo Restoration Sewing School will change you.

The girls of the Congo Restoration Girls School of Compassion will change you.

Playing frisbee or serving beans to our orphans and watching them play and eat so joyously will change you. The same for the local children you will walk down the road with, the drivers you will spend time with on the worst roads in the world, the national park rangers and the gorillas you will spend hours with hiking through the rainforest.

Being with Congo Restoration Founder Gorethy Nabushosi in her home country is a glimpse into a world most of us do not have access to. It is logistically impossible to see DRC without an invitation. It is emotionally impossible not to fall in love with DRC when that invitation comes from Gorethy.

Travel Details

We will fly from DFW (or wherever you’re leaving from) to Kigali, Rwanda. We’ll spend one night in Rwanda on the way there. Flights have been hovering around $1600 for a while now. I have flown for as little as $1100 but am not seeing those deals right now. I’d budget for $1600 and be pleased if we find it cheaper.

  • Sunday, June 25 or Monday June 26 (depends on flights): Depart US for Kigali, Rwanda
  • Monday June 26 or Tuesday June 27 (depends on flights): Arrive in Kigali, spend night.
  • Wednesday, June 28: Early 40-minute flight to the border of Congo to meet our friends at Congo Restoration! That day, we will go to the fabric market to pick out something for our sewing school students to sew for us.
  • Thursday, June 29: Head to the village of Mudaka to meet the almost graduates of the Congo Restoration Sewing School and the girls at the primary school.
  • Friday, June 30: Back to Mudaka to prepare for tomorrow’s graduation ceremony.
  • Saturday, July 1: Sewing School graduation day in Mudaka!!
  • Sunday, July 2: Church and TBD
  • Monday, July 3: Gorilla hike!
  • Tuesday, July 4: Day in Bukavu: Tour of tea plantation? Visit American while he’s making furniture for new 6th-grade classroom?
  • Wednesday, July 5: Back to Mudaka to spend day with girls at primary school and pick up items made for us by our sewing school, then goodbye dinner with our friends in Congo.
  • Thursday, July 6: Leave Congo for Rwanda, spend day (three hours at Genocide Memorial) before late evening flight home.
  • Friday, July 7: Arrive in Dallas same day about 7 pm.
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