The homes of many poverty-stricken families are at risk as numerous huge gallies are eating their way up the hillside. Special Self-Help funds purchased grass, bamboo, sacks of sand, shovels, and machetes to help the men fight the erosion. (Photos taken in March 2003 by Embassy Kinshasa Self-Help Coordinator Rebecca Ward)
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(above photo) One of the endangered houses in Sangamamba, Kinshasa that may be affected by erosion. |
![Men of the Democratic Republic of the Congo attempt to slow down the erosion of the land](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081012030157im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/droc_sangamamba_erosion_300.jpg)
(above photo) Courageous men try to slow down the erosion.
![Children of the community face a dark future if erosion is not controlled](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081012030157im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/droc_sangamamba_kids_300.jpg)
(above photo) These children of the community face a dark future if more drastic measures are not taken to control the erosion of the land. |