Community Training Center

Minembwe Community Training Center

• In the mountains of the Haut Plateau of Eastern DR Congo, the center offers adult vocational skills training and acts as a seed bed for the introduction of agricultural and power supply improvements. Though on the equator, the high altitude cool weather combined with plenty of rain, sun and continental-divide wind, makes for a perfect environment for a wide variety of initiatives:
• Adult Vocational Skills Training—mechanics, carpentry, tailoring, computers, English
• Agricultural development—successful introduction, testing and research of commercial scale blueberries, kiwi, cranberries, orange fleshed sweet potatoes (Vit. A) as well as a wide variety of vegetables—kale, asparagus, beets, broccoli, carrots, butternut squash, kohlrabi, red sweet peppers, etc..
• Renewable energy and power supply demonstration—solar power and wind turbines.

FLASH: MCC closes training and hosts more than 140 refugees following attacks on local villages.