For over eight decades the ECC has worked to address the critical challenges arising from colonization, military insurgency, civil war and cross-border invasions, and more recently to support post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.  ECC programs strengthen and enhance the capacity of local people to rebuild their country and their economy.  The ECC runs and operates hospitals, clinics, schools, universities, domestic science training centres for women, feeding programs in urban areas, theological education centres, agricultural projects and cares for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. 

The United Church of Canada has partnered with ECC since the early 1970s, providing funds to support the work of the ECC’s Department of Women and Family (DFF).  The DFF provides leadership and essential services to women and children in communities and offers hope to these most vulnerable of the Congolese people as they emerge from conflict and grapple with the challenges wrought by years of poverty and oppression.