Textbook Shipment

August 13, 2007

More than 4,000 kilos of recently published medical textbooks are on their way by sea to the Congo port of Matadi. The textbooks were collected by medical students at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The shipping was made possible by CNEC Partners International and Change Freight Forwarding. The textbook collection has been an initiative of the Medical Students’ Aid Program and HandUp Congo $120,000 in scholarships – Students in UPC’s fledgling Medical School will benefit from the donation of $120,000 in scholarships, made possible in October 2007, by CNEC Partners International and the Singapore Foundation.

University of New South Wales student volunteer packing medical textbooks

New Microscopes

ACTIVITIES OF OUR PROFESSORS From the 1st to the 22nd of May, 2007, Prof. Meme Dingadie Monger, Academic Secretary of the School of Theology, traveled to Bukafu where he gave lectures at the African Evangelical University (UEA-Bukvu). During his stay in Bukavu professor Meme held a conference entitled ”The Democratic Republic of Congo, country of paradise or country of bird of paradise? Biblical approach for peace and development.” The 23rd of the same month he went to Goma where he taught at the Free University of the Countries of the Great Lakes (ULPGL) from May 23-30, 2007.