Comfort International

Comfort International provides support for genocide survivors, refugees, ex-child soldiers, rape survivors, street children and other vulnerable groups through care and relief projects, sponsorship, community development, income generation and education support.

In 1999 the charity was set up to support the recovery of Rwandan survivors from the 1994 genocide by working with indigenous Rwandan organisations. Subsequently this broadened to include work with street kids rescue and healing and reconciliation groups. In 2008 the charity began working in the area of North Kivu around Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in 2018 it began work in Burundi and became Comfort International. In DRC it partners with a sister organisation Comfort Congo to run CRC's projects in DRC, to support rape-survivors and refugees (technically Internally Displaced People (IDPs). We have recently begun street kids rescue work in Burundi and South Sudan and mission work in Sierra Leone.