Chris Pycroft
Head of Office, DFID DRC
I'm the Head of Office for the Department for International Development (DFID) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I have been based in the capital city, Kinshasa, for just over a year. This is a challenging and exciting job as we think through how to support poverty reduction in this huge and complex country.
From one extreme to another in Kinshasa
Posted 26 March 2013
A guest blog by Susanna Moorehead, DFID West and Southern Africa Director, about her recent visit to a center for girls living in the street in Kinshasa. During my recent visit to DRC, I witnessed life in the huge, vibrant but troubled capital city, Kinshasa. In the tree-lined streets of Gombe, the diplomatic quarter on the banks of the Congo River, [...]
