Kamina Friends Inc. is a Fairport, New York-based not-for-profit, tax-exempt corporation. Kamina Friends is an approved and registered US Private Voluntary Organization with the United States Agency for International Development – appearing in the USAID US PVO Registry. Kamina Friends is also an approved Advance Ministry of the United Methodist Church. Tax-deductible contributions can be made via the United Methodist Advance website. Kamina Friends is Advance # 3020510 with 100% of every donation going to the Kamina Friends project. Donations can also be made directly to the address below.

Contributing donors to-date include:

• Kamina Friends Inc. Board Members and many individual donors.
• Foundations - the Hewlett Packard Company Foundation, the William Blair & Company Charitable Foundation, the Manning & Napier Advisors Inc. Charitable Foundation and the Willmott Foundation.
• The United Methodist Church – Western NY Annual Conference Board of Global Ministries, Western NY Annual Conference Board Church & Society and Fairport United Methodist Church

To support and advance the Kamina project and to work to realize the longer-term vision of broader application in the DRC and Africa, Kamina Friends is building relationships with and working closely with:

• The Kinshasa, DRC Mission Office of USAID.
• The US Embassy in Kinshasa, DRC.
• Global, DRC country-level and local Kamina-based teams of UMCOR (the United Methodist Committee on Relief) and the Trust Merchant Bank in the DRC to facilitate micro-lending which will go hand-in-hand with our efforts to support small business entrepreneurs.