Honoring Impact and Leadership
Awards and Recognitions
Our work has been recognized across Africa for its bold vision and real-world impact. These awards reflect our founder’s dedication and the collective effort behind Focus Congo’s mission.
Run, My Son!
Biography
As a child, our founder Pappy Orion was forced to flee his country to escape the brutal recruitment of child soldiers. His harrowing journey on foot to South Africa, surviving as a street kid, became the foundation for a life devoted to restoring peace and bringing healing to his beloved people and homeland, the Congo.
What People Say About Us
Testimonials
This book describes a story of God’s preservation, faith and true determination. Pappy went a very long way for two years to avoid becoming a child soldier. May it bess you as you read it.
Loren Cunningham
Founder of Youth With A Mission
As a journalist, I covered the war. Pappy lived it. He certainly bears the scars of that experience, but also an inner strength that was born of it. You hear that strength in his voice, see it in his eyes and in his beaming smiles. God lives in Pappy. His story is a miracle.
Byron Pitts
ABC News Correspondent
