Our Programs

Since 2018, FADPE asbl. has been implementing various programs to achieve our mission. These are our current focus areas:

Students and volunteers serving food at a school lunch event, with watermelons and other dishes on a table, and a large banner in the background promoting a vegan school lunch campaign.

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  • We work in schools and villages around Virunga National Park, including Goma City, Nyiragongo, and Masisi territories. Our activities include:

    • Teaching plant-based nutrition and coordinating vegan school lunch campaigns

    • Promoting plant-based products by establishing school and community vegetable gardens

    • Mobilizing communities to defend animal rights

    • Fighting climate change through reforestation initiatives

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  • Our orphanage (New Life Community Center/Caring for All Beings), inaugurated in March 2024, currently cares for 39 children, with 15 residing full-time. Our program includes:

    • Daily plant-based meals including porridge, beans, potatoes, rice, vegetables, and fruit

    • Education on plant-based living and its benefits

    • Language lessons and vocational training for community integration

    • Psychological and social support

    • Construction of dormitories and health center facilities

    • Training center for literacy, sewing, arts, and other trades

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  • We multiply and distribute seeds while training beneficiaries in agricultural techniques that don't exploit animals.

    The vegetable and food crop seed multiplication and distribution program helps us to sustain vegan practices by helping those who embrace a plant-based lifestyle easily find plant-based products in their vegetable gardens on their respective plots.

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  • We raise awareness about gender-based violence, promote positive masculinity, and facilitate community dialogue to prevent conflicts.

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  • This program educates the community to combat climate change by reducing or ceasing human activities and also to encourage greater involvement in reforestation.

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A group of five young boys gardening in a small outdoor yard with soil and young plants, bordered by stone and brick walls.
A man in a white shirt and jeans crouches in a garden planting young green seedlings against a stone wall.
A garden with green leafy plants growing in soil, enclosed by stone and brick walls, with a small informational sign among the plants.
A young person in a blue shirt harvesting a cabbage in a garden surrounded by other leafy greens and a stone wall.
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Children and adults gathered outside the New Life Community Center, holding slices of watermelon and surrounded by watermelons, carrots, and other vegetables, during a communal meal or event.
Group of children sitting and standing outside a wooden building, eating watermelon and food, with an adult woman in the background holding a plate of watermelon and a person inside the building looking out at them.
A group of children and adults gather around a food stand outdoors, with two trays of pineapple slices and people selecting fruit, in front of a building with blue windows and a sign reading 'Life Outreach Center'.
Children sitting on wooden benches having a meal, with plates of food and slices of watermelon, under a makeshift shelter outside a community center.
Children sitting outdoors on wooden benches eating watermelon, with plates of rice and vegetables, at a community center in a rural area, featuring a sign for New Life Community Center in the background.
Group of people harvesting potatoes in a farm with cleared, furrowed soil and lush green trees in the background.
People planting and tending to a vegetable garden in a rural outdoor setting with trees and greenery in the background.
A hillside with young plants growing in rows and a person observing the plants on the left side of the image.
A man in a purple jacket holding a bowl of freshly dug potatoes in a farm field with rows of green plants.
People working in a farm planting eggs into cultivated soil in a rural setting with trees and houses in the background.
A man standing in a lush green field of crops with trees in the background.
Four people in a field harvesting and bagging potatoes with green plants and trees in the background.
Two men working in a small garden, planting or tending to young plants. One man is holding a plastic bag, and the other is using a hoe. There are banana trees, a stone wall, and some houses in the background.
A young girl digging in dark, rocky soil with a small farm tool, surrounded by green plants.
Man planting a young tree in a garden with corn plants in the background, and a handwritten sign that says 'Planting Women 2021'.
Three women and one man planting young trees in a lush green outdoor setting with banana trees in the background.