The Nzo a Nkisi ya Ngudi a Nkama is a living house and a mutual-aid confraternity — the cofradía our people kept for four hundred years: pooling the small offerings of its members to teach them, to raise them, and to carry one another through sickness, want, and the grave. Under one Source, Nzambi a Mpungu.
Begin at the threshold for the price of a meal. Stand as a full member of the house when you are ready.
For four centuries the Kongo cofradía pooled the small offerings of its members into a common chest — the caja — to bury its dead with honour, nurse its sick, relieve its poor, and buy the freedom of those still held. The House restores that engine. This is not charity you receive; it is a house you build, and that builds you.
Sickness, burial, and welfare benefits for members and their dependants — the historic burial-society function, restored.
The Sunday teaching, the school, bursaries and instruction for members, their children, and the youth of the community.
Mutual-credit, savings circles, and the nsinsani — a people provisioning its own needs, beholden to no one.
"They pooled the small offerings of their members into a common chest — to bury their dead with honour, and to purchase the freedom of those still held."