Although founded to support development initiatives of local Catholic churches, Fidesco is now also in charge of seven development projects. In most of these projects, our volunteers still play a decisive role. Such is the case in Guinea’s capital Conakry, where Fidesco runs the country’s second largest medical clinic, providing quality healthcare against rates affordable to the poorest. 

Fidesco’s reintegration project for orphans of the Rwandese genocide between Hutu’s and Tutsi’s in 1994, according to UNICEF and the French embassy is the most successful in the country. The center’s staff does not merely educate and raise about 300 orphans per year. They are very successful in retracing the family of many of them and work on reconciliation between Hutu’s and Tutsi’s as well. So far they have reached out to some 15.000 youth. 

We also invite you to read more about our continuous efforts to train technical students in Nigeria and agricultural students in Madagascar and Indonesia. Every year technicians and agronomists are sent to our technical and agricultural schools for this purpose. Fidesco is also responsible for a joined diocesan project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where European and Congolese lawyers fight corruption through education at law faculties and the injustice of spending up to two years in prison without trial by providing free legal assistance to those who cannot afford a bribe.