Child Action is a Non-Government Organization founded in 2006 by Isaiah Njimbu after graduation from Africa University with a sociology degree, when he returned home to Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Isaiah was supported by Oak Ridge UMC with a full scholarship to Africa University for two years.

Child Action has been sanctioned by the Southern Katanga Province United Methodist Bishop. Isaiah is currently in the process of submitting an application to UM GBGM, New York City, for financial support for this mission in nearby Kasungami, DRC where approximately 20,000 people reside. The original purpose of this organization was to provide primary and secondary education for children whose parents died from HIV/AIDS, who reside in Kasungami and attend Nazareth United Methodist Church.

The Child Action program has grown from providing education and clothing for the orphaned children of Kasungami to providing wells for drinking water, medical services such as visiting nurses and doctors, facility for expectant mothers, a facility to care for the sick, vaccines and the development of a subsistence farming program so the residents can raise nutritional food for their own consumption and sell it to earn an income.

Watch our video about 'Shoes and Socks' from April 8th.

Watch our video about 'Child Action Shoes' from October 13, 2019.

Ministry coordinators are Ed and Bev Wentz.

You can follow the highlights from the Child Action Initiative blog.

Child Action Initiative Blog

• HALLELUJAH!PRAISE GOD! CHILD ACTION INITIATIVE CELEBRATED ITS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2006 BY (ISAIAH) ESAIE NJIMBU CHOT!

  March 21, 2017 | 10:03 am

  Part 2 of 2Since the founding of Child Action Initiative (CAI) June, 2006, Isaiah has gone above and beyond the original goal of educating children to meeting the basic needs of the residents of Kasungami, DRC.  Their daily living conditions were deplorable no education programs or facilities for the many children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and civil war; contaminated drinking water, lack of adequate nourishing food due to primitive farming methods; malaria and typhoid fever and Nazareth Methodist Church (NUMC), headquarters for CAI, pillaged and plundered by civil war.During our visit in June, 2008, it was obvious additional, more[…]

• HALLELUJAH! PRAISE GOD! CHILD ACTION INITIATIVE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2006 BY (ISAIAH) ESAIE NJIMBU CHOT!

  January 30, 2017 | 19:34 pm

  Part 1 of 2 The following are highlights of significant projects undertaken over the past 10 year to educate orphans and assist a humble Nazareth United Methodist Church recover from civil war in Kasungami, located in the southeastern tip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa.Dedication of Child Action Initiative (CAI) founder, (Isaiah) Esaie Njimbu Chot, with his wife Yvette; generous financial support from Oak Ridge United Methodist Church (ORUMC) and church members; United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR); financial support from individual donors,  support from David Heiser, a licensed environmental engineer and member of Fuquay-Varina UMC and  Max and Shirley[…]

• CHILD ACTION INITIATIVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY

  June 27, 2016 | 07:31 am

  CHILD ACTION INITIATIVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY  June 26, 2016This is the 10th Anniversary of Child Action Initiative founded by Isaiah Njimbu Chot in 2006 after his return to Kasungami, DRC from Africa University, Old Mutare, Zimbabwe, where he graduated with a degree in Sociology.  CAI's mission was/is to educate HIV/AIDs orphans and improve their quality of life.  Nazareth United Methodist Church (NUMC), Kasungami, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the headquarters of CAI.The first year of inception CAI was able to provide schooling for 22 children, the second year 50 students and the third year and[…]