Peace Without Boundaries, China Goes to Congo (DRC) Peacekeeping Forces and African Children Welcome International African Children

On June 15, in Bukavu, the eastern city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, China went to work with members of the peacekeeping engineering unit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for lion dance performances for local children to celebrate the African Children's Day. In 1991, UNICEF announced that June 16 will be "International Day of African Children." Xinhua News Agency reporter comfortable photo

Xinhuanet Bukavu, Congo (DRC), June 15 (Reporter Comfort) China went to KPC on the 15th to keep activities for children in Bukavu and celebrate the upcoming International Day of African Children.

The members of the China Peacekeeping Medical Unit came to the SOS Children's Village in Bukavu and sent children books, exercise books and table tennis tables made by football players, basketball players and other hand-made players, as well as a medical center for children's villages. Urgently needed drugs, the total value of more than 7000 US dollars.

Sheikh Hassan, the village head of the children's village, is pleased to say that the supplies sent by the Chinese peacekeepers have solved many of the difficulties that children's villages face and are thankful to the Chinese peacekeepers for their work in children's villages. Children will always remember the love of Chinese soldiers.

China's peacekeeping engineering corps invited some primary and secondary school students in Bukavu City to come to the camp area to perform various programs such as martial arts, queues, dragon dance and lion dance, and won the applause and applause from the children. After the show, the team members also taught children Chinese martial arts and dragon and lion dance movements.

On June 13, 1991, UNICEF announced that June 16th of each year will be set as the International Day for Children of Africa to make people aware of the suffering such as hunger, war, poverty and disease suffered by African children.