Kinshasa September 2023

In September we traveled to Kinshasa with a group of Dutch people from the Congolese Diaspora to meet with Congolese from Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. We went through a joint connecting program with them and had discussions with the embassy, ​​a large company in Kinshasa and the Chamber of Commerce of Congo.

Wamiliki's first trip to Africa: Kinshasa
Encounters on equality and decolonisation Revaluing personal responsibility through sharing of values.

Day 1, INRB
The day was spent establishing and restoring fraternal and warm connections, free from all comparisons and jealousies.
The old-fashioned way and through honest and encouraged dialogue. The only superiority we recognize is presence compared to absence!
We aligned and were ready to share our values. Without judgement.


Our program is based on the objectives of the Wamiliki Foundation, which “promote the stimulation of personal responsibility in the service of the relationship with the other, the neighbor; in this case the relationship between Africans and Europeans.”

For three days, young people, often entrepreneurs, from different parts of Congo (Lubumbashi and Kinshasa) and the children of the Congolese diaspora in the Netherlands came together. They have come to know and appreciate each other to hopefully forge lasting and effective relationships because they are equal.
The Wamiliki Foundation (heirs and/or owners) sincerely hopes that a small spark of hope will be planted in the hearts and minds of these young people, so that they take their fate into their own hands and perhaps above all, regain their destiny. We firmly believe that this is the key to the rise of Africa and Europe: let the Africans take their own destiny into their own hands. Wamiliki!
“We all have something to offer!”, is the message that Wamiliki brings!

Day 2, INRB
This new day was dedicated to sharing values.
Everyone has something to offer. Only you have to know what and realize it before you present it to others. So what do we have to offer? What do we need in order to realize what we have to offer? How do we do this without becoming dependent and thus losing our most precious thing, our pride?

Day 3 and end of the activities
This time the embassy of the Netherlands in Congo was our host.
With the modesty of honest men and women who count Africa and Congo, overflowing with pride to always be able to offer something, assured that the ancestors carry and support us, we entered into discussions with a representative of Europe to lay the foundation stone for the decolonization of our relations between Africa and Europe.


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