Evariste Mfaume

Evariste Mfaume (born 1972 or 1973) is a Congolese human rights activist and humanitarian.

He founded Solidarité des Volontaires pour l’Humanité (English: Solidarity of Volunteers for Humanity) in 2003, and won the Africa regional Nansen Refugee Award in 2019.

[1] He has advocated to the Congolese government to allocate unused parcels of land to returning refugees, specifically the South Kivu villages of Baraka, Fizi, Sebele and Mboko.

[1][2] Mfaume founded Solidarité des Volontaires pour l’Humanité (English: Solidarity of Volunteers for Humanity) organisation in 2003.

[3][4] Mfaume lives in the South Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has been displaced by conflict several times.