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Mbandaka is the home of the world's first project of Habitat for Humanity International.
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The town of Mbandaka is a busy port on the banks of the Congo River.
The Pool is the beginning of the navigable part of the Congo River upstream to the cities of Mbandaka, Kisangani and Bangui.
The word " Équateur " is French for the Equator, which lies less than south of the provincial capital of Mbandaka, a city on the Congo River.
The province is divided into the cities of Mbandaka, Gbadolite and Zongo and the districts of Équateur, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi, Mongala and Tshuapa.
Mbandaka, formerly known as Coquilhatville or Coquilhatstad ( named after Camille-Aimé Coquilhat ), is a city on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki Rivers.
Mbandaka is the capital of the Équateur province, and located only a few miles from the equator.
Mbandaka is largely populated by people of the Mongo ethnic group, although people from many different regions live in the city.
In fact the Town Hall is about north of the Geographic Equator Line, and Mbandaka is indeed one of the closest of any substantial city in the world.
A large research center for Central African history, originally set up by Fathers Gustaaf Hulstaert ( 1900 – 1990 ) and Honoré Vinck, is at the Catholic Mission station of Bamanya ( Missionaries of the Sacred Heart ( MSC )), 10 kilometres east of Mbandaka.
Boende is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying on the Tshuapa River, east of Mbandaka.
Bikoro is a market town in Équateur Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying on Lake Tumba, south of Mbandaka.
Mbandaka and project
The housing project Fuller started in Mbandaka in 1973 became the original project of Habitat for Humanity when Fuller founded Habitat upon his return to the United States.
Mbandaka and Habitat
Habitat for Humanity's founder Millard Fuller served as missionary with the Disciples of Christ Church in Mbandaka from 1973-76.
Mbandaka and .
The force was deployed in four sectors at Kananga, Kisangani, Kalemie and Mbandaka.
Guard units protected MONUC installations in Kinshasa, Kananga, Kisangani, Kalemie, Goma and Mbandaka.
Mbandaka lies on the east side of the Congo River below the mouth of the Tshuapa River, a tributary of the Congo.
The main languages spoken in Mbandaka are Lingala, French and Mongo.
Due to its symbolic location close to the equator and the Congo River there were early plans to locate the capital of the Congo Free State in Mbandaka.
During the colonial time in 1938 works started on a bridge over the Congo River connecting Mbandaka with the French Congo.
In 1966 the name was changed once again, this time by the new independent government, to " Mbandaka " to honor a prominent local leader.
Mbandaka features a tropical rainforest climate under Köppen's climate classification.
Born in Mbandaka, Zaire to a Portuguese father and a Congolese mother, Bosingwa moved with his parents at a very young age to Seia, inner Portugal, in the Guarda District.
From 1950 to 1958 Bralima decided to keep on five breweries in DR Congo: Kinshasa, Boma, Bukavu, Kisangani and Mbandaka.
Several hundred individuals were reportedly killed with survivors of the initial attack hunted down and killed in and around Bolenge and the nearby city of Mbandaka.
is and home
`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.
Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.
The infant is discovered by a fisherman who brings him home to rear him.
Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.
And this is my own home ''.
The impression you get from Carl Sandburg's home is one of laughter and happiness ; ;
the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.
In designing his home fallout shelter there is nothing to prevent a man from planning to shelter that home's occupants, `` plus-one '' -- so he will be able to take in a stranger.
Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.
There is no such thing as being diligent about national affairs but indifferent about home needs.
The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.
The problem of efficient production in textiles is complicated by the fact that the industry serves large markets which shift quickly with changes of fashion in apparel or home decoration.
I therefore believe it is realistic to assume a modest drop in the total value of home entertainment electronics to about $1.8 million, slightly below 1960, but above 1959.
It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.
The home listener is overpowered, all right, but the experience is a far from pleasant one.
As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.
No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.
Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.
Home is the place to find the comforts of home.
He is usually conscious of the social pressures at home and outside ; ;
Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.
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