Our organization Goma Community Development Foundation (GOCODEF) is an indigenous Community Based (not for profit) Organization established in May 2016 in Goma City in the catholic Diocese of Goma, North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The major focus of our organization is to empower poor rural youth, HIV/AIDS orphans and young windows and young mothers in the internally Displaced People’s camps (IDP) to break the vicious cycle of poverty through education support, self-help projects such as tomato growing, raising and selling of goats and pigs, vocational skills training and hand craft making thus improving on their welfare and their disadvantaged children.