Peace Corps Friends of DR Congo

Jim Herne has kindly collected and shared a trove of DRC/ Zaire YouTube videos that may be of interest to this group.  They are sorted...

Born a Sin in Africa: Belgium’s Lost Children. Beth Duff-Brown, a member of our board who served in Kamponde, Kasai Occidental, from...

My Path to the Peace Corps By Jim Herne RPCV Zaire, 1971-73 In the fall of 1968, I was a senior in college and like many of my classmates...

Every year we raise funds so that we can continue to provide meaningful support to NGOs who are doing good work in DRC. In the past, we...

Dear former Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire/Congo. One of our Board members is retiring and we would like to replace her position with two...

One of our board members, Beth Duff-Brown, has returned to her Peace Corps post in Kasai Occidental three times since serving from...

This article is written by Peace Corps Friends of DR Board member Beth Duff-Brown, a veteran journalist and communications manager for...

By Jim Herne, April 2020 As someone who has spent a career in international development, and who has worked for two Farmer-To-Farmer...

By Jim Herne, January 2020 Between 1985 and 1990 I lived in Kigali, Rwanda, while I was managing the USAID funded Rwanda Private...

By Jim Herne Since retiring in late 2016 I have been contacting various organizations that implement “Farmer-to-Farmer” programs...

A return to Kinshasa – after more than 45 years… Jim Herne – PCV Congo/Zaïre ’71-‘73 Photo slide show of Jim's visit In July of 2017 I...