Congolese Humanitarian Crisis Logistical Nightmare

I understand people feel like they are well-intended when fighting for housing for the 7 million displaced people in the Congo; however, the people collecting donations for this humanitarian crisis are financially and morally robbing donors...

Nobody has a practical plan to build houses in the middle of the continent of Africa for 7 million people within a reasonable timeframe to solve the Humanitarian Crisis; not even for the lack of trying.

As a Class A Commercial Driver, I know from professional experience: it can be tough transporting supplies 2,000+ miles across secured asphalt-paved highways and interstates of the United States with brand new 18-wheelers...

The Democratic Republic Of Congo does not have the infrastructure the United States of America has.

We are talking thousands of miles of travel for 80,000+lbs 18-wheelers on non-secured dirt roads to get supplies from the nearest coastal port into the Democratic Republic Of Congo (while keeping the cargo secure as well); if we can even get the supplies shipped to a nearby coastal port. Not to mention travel being halted anytime it rains on a dirt road... the 80,000+lb 18-wheelers would get stuck in the mud... Even if weather conditions were perfect, it would take weeks to drive across thousands of miles of dirt roads in 80,000+lbs 18 wheelers, considering the speeds wouldn't be able to safely exceed 30-35 miles per hour. If not impossible, it's damn near impossible, but let's move onto the supplies needed.

7 Million People

7 People to 1 house

1 million homes

If it only took 100 pieces of lumber to build a home, then we would need 100,000,000 pieces of lumber to complete the work...

It would take deforestation of an entire country to acquire the lumber needed, which just causes a whole new environmental problem, but I digress.

*The above numbers and sentiment are cartoonishly modest*

If we were able to put 1,000 pieces of lumber on 1 18-wheeler and make the multiple thousands of miles journey over dirt roads, then it would take 100,000 trips or 100,000 18-wheelers to do so. Mix and match those figures however you see fit to try to balance the work needed. It would still be impossible to complete in an even remotely reasonable timeframe to solve the humanitarian crisis.

The problem is not rich people not donating enough money to solve the problem.

The problem is overpopulation in a remote area that can't sustain the population....

Money is not magic.

It takes infrastructure to transport supplies.

It takes an immense amount of labor to build a house.

... much less in the middle of the jungles of Central Africa...

The main reason they do not have the homes is because they do not have the infrastructure to transport the supplies necessary for the construction.

Nobody is going to deforest a whole country to solve an urgent humanitarian crisis that would take over 100 years to complete anyway. Unfortunately, by the time we complete the project, the people would have been dead and gone before Year 10.

The solution to the problem in the Congo can only come from the people of the Congo making the labor sacrifice of banding together to build homes with the resources around them for their future generations. That's the only way this can work logistically... and that is if the Congolese government isn't corrupt... and that is of they are willing to destroy their own environment with deforestation...

Aside: We haven't even gone into any geopolitical issues the solution to this humanitarian crisis would cause...