BUTEMBO, , Sept 16 — S ince Ebola killed her parents in 2019, Congolese teenager Patience has done various jobs to provide for her three younger siblings, from warehouse work to washing clothes for neighbours.
“We try to eat only at night,” said Patience, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. She earns about 30,000 Congolese francs a month, which allows her to buy cassava flour to make the one meal the four siblings share each day. “Funds have been limited... without responding to the real needs of children who are suffering a lot,” she said, adding that free education and counseling should be provided to all Ebola orphans, and training to teenagers to help them find work.
And as in many nations globally, the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled a rise in child labour and hindered efforts to identify and help the most vulnerable children in Congo. “These children here are forgotten and abandoned by the government and charities,” she added, saying that officials had not visited the orphanage to enquire about the Ebola orphans.
Limited funding for local charities and a lack of government oversight had hindered sustained monitoring and care, he added. Masika said she used to make some of the children help her do farming work in the conflict-hit Ituri province until attackers invaded the fields in 2020 and killed her neighbours.
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