Loukoua Congolese Children's Project

Loukoua Congolese Children's Project

Performance + Teaching Center Supporting Orphans in the Congo

  • Community for children
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Music & Dance
  • Mbongi-Learning circle
  • Traditional instrument making
  • Preserving cultures

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What is Loukoua?

  • A village in the Congo
  • The spring-source of the river Loukoua
  • An Mbongi Project to support orphaned children through a sustainable teaching and performance center.
 Titos Sompa Drumming
Learning Dance

What Will Loukoua Project Do?

  • Provide a holistic academic education
  • Provide skillful training in the cultural arts.
  • Reestablish family life under the tutelage of village elders.
  • Introduce the paradigm mbongi.
  • Together create an elegant, sustainable experience of community.
  • House and feed children in need.
Titos Sompa

What is Mbongi?

A Congolese word meaning “learning place.” It refers to the circle of learning in the African village where people gather to learn how to be contributing members of the community.

Mbongi is also the name of the organization formed in 1988 by Titos Sompa to provide artistic and educational programs throughout the US and abroad. The vision of Mbongi is to create “villages” within communities so that people can come together and celebrate their gifts,experience the joy of being connected to body, spirit and each other. Loukoua Congolese Children’s Project is Mbongi’s newest endeavor to extend this vision directly to the needs of the children and community in the Congo.

Dancing

Want to get involved?

Here’s how to become a part of this innovative community:

  • Give a one time gift
  • Become a monthly contributor
  • Journey to the Congo – service work experience with the music and dance camp.
  • Sign up for e-mail updates
  • Have a fundraising event

What's next for the Loukoua Congolese Children's Project?

Phase I — Infrastructure

  • Build a Bridge
  • Pipe water to the property
  • Build a gathering space (Mbongi)

Phase II

Dancers
  • Build accommodations for resident children and guests
  • Educational Program
  • Implement sustainable gardens

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