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Jean Tshomba, coordinator of the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s Disaster Management Office in Eastern Congo, turns on the tap of a new rainwater cistern in Kibumba, Congo, as Dr. Damas Lushima (wearing a blue hat), team members and a young girl from the village look on. With funding from UMCOR, 24 rainwater collection tanks were installed to provide vital access to safe drinking water in this remote village, which is devoid of surface water sources and weakened by recent population displacements. Photo by Jolie Shabani, UM News.

Church installs rainwater tanks in isolated Congolese village

More than 600 households now have access to clean water through a project funded by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.

Theology and Education

(From left) Francisco Tivane, the Rev. Filibus Bakari Auta, Ibada Hussaini, Fiston Lutuku Okito and Lebon Okito display their certificates following strategic communications training at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The communicators say they will use their enhanced skills to guide their African communities through the challenges of conflict and epidemics. Photo courtesy of Africa University.

Communicators in Africa serve on front lines of crises

Trained in strategic communications by United Methodist Communications and Africa University, eight communicators share how they plan to use their new skills to serve communities facing conflict, disease and misinformation.

Theology and Education

Graduates of a new strategic communications program hold their certificates following a June 26 graduation ceremony at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The group represented the first of two cohorts of United Methodist communicators trained to strengthen the church’s media network across the continent in the face of crises, epidemics and misinformation. The program is a partnership between Africa University and United Methodist Communications. Photo courtesy of Africa University.

Communications program strengthens storytelling in Africa

United Methodist communicators from all 14 of the church’s African episcopal areas received strategic communications training and certification through a partnership between Africa University and United Methodist Communications.

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