Dr Luc Mulimbalimba- Masururu (known as Dr Luc) is Medical Director of Mission in Health Care and Development (MHCD) (www.mhcdafrica.org), which aims to provide health care and poverty reduction services to the most vulnerable, including Congo’s Pygmies.MHCD has multiple projects, ranging from an epilepsy centre, schools, a training centre for traditional midwives, birthing kit distribution, an orphanage, and a radio station that mobilizes the community on primary health care, peace and reconciliation.
He is currently in Australia attempting to establish relationships with aid organisations.
Dr Luc will talk to Rotary Clubs in Wagga Wagga (see schedule below) about the Rotary Global Grant recently approved to provide pig raising and fish farming to help sustain the villages in Bakavu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He recently survived an assassination attempt. “Beginning a movement in The Democratic Republic of Congo is dangerous”, he said. He said Village chiefs, who are threatened by change and the thought of losing power, were involved in his attempted assassination”.
He decided to devote himself to the people of Uvira district and especially Luvungi township.
Soon after it was decided a hospital was needed, with Dr Luc financing the project, which was completed in 2010. He has also built four radio stations so members of the community could learn about health and education.
Alongside that work, Dr Luc has built orphanages, schools, bridges and micro hydro electric plant to supply ongoing power to the hospital. (Based on, and added to, information forwarded to the Club.)
