ASG Assists Families in the Masina Community

L'Observateur, DR Congo, April 7, 2003

(Translated from French)

To help communities in its service areas to break the cycle of poverty and to live healthy lives, the African Salvation Group Corp (ASG)’s DR Congo Director, Mr. Pablo Katako, has distributed emergency food under the organization’s Nutrition and Food Security project.

In fact, this initiative targeted ten impoverished families led by widows. Each of the families received a 50 kilos sack of cassava mills (basic food in Congo), five bottles of palm oil, and five kilos of popular fish (mpiodi). The mission of ASG is to promote health education, risk reduction, prevention and stigma; especially the improvement of skill-building effort to contain the spread of HIV and related diseases. And it also offers opportunities to improve educational levels, gain job-related skills, and build personal and community capacity.

In September 2003, under its effort to support education the organization distributed school supplies to 1056 students of the primary school EP Bambous in Masina,
Kinshasa/DR Congo Moreover, fulfilling on its purpose ASG distributed 2000Kg of food during 2003, recalled Mr John Nteta, the organization’s administrative coordinator.

The African Salvation Group Corp. (ASG) is a Bronx-based 501(c)(3) Health and Human Service nonprofit organization. ASG's purpose is to promote health education, risk reduction, prevention and stigma; and offer opportunities to improve educational levels, gain job-related skills, and build personal and community capacity.

Founded in 2002 by Felly Katalay, the African Salvation Group has transformed itself into an implementing and service organization. ASG provides direct services to the communities in need and support to local human service groups. We also provide expertise, knowledge and skills from field experience to support other organizations, often as part of a scale-up strategy.