Congo Quarter is one of the seven areas that constitutes the town hall of Ruashi, situated in the north zone of Lubumbashi. According to official data collected during the last census of 2001, the area has a total population of 34.000 inhabitants.

The zone is inhabited by rather poor persons who had to abandon the richer quarters of the city. They are pensionates, widows and other low income groups.

Because of the low income, all the activities carried out in the area, from agriculture to small commerce to the handicraft, are extremely poor and aim to guarantee the survival. Agriculture is practiced to the periphery of the area and the products are sold in the Zambia market and in other small markets of quarter. Some peasants prefer to go further away and to sell their products in more distant markets.

As for small commerce, it is carried out in the market of the quarter or small kiosks scattered around in the area.

As for education, there are quite few small schools with low reliability, and most of the parents prefers to send their children to school dowtown or to SNCC private school even if their distant more than 3 km from the area.

The situation of the water is rather worrisome altough the existance of a connection with the Regideso net.

Hospitals, in the tight sense of the term, do not exist in the area. Therefore, in order to be assisted it is necessary to cover 3 km that separate the area from the center of Ruashi or 5 km that separate it from the center of Lubumbashi. For this reason, the population often makes use, in order to cure itself, of small medical centers of the quarter or to the traditional medicine.

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