Meet the face
behind the work

Dr T.L. Mukenge is a professor emeritus at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA, and founded the Africana Studies Program there. Dr Mukenge was born and raised in Luba villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC. In 2009, after many years of absence, Dr Mukenge visited Mpoyi and was struck by the high level of absolute poverty and resulting high numbers of non-schooled and school drop-outs. Coins of Hope was born in 2010 as a collective effort to address Mpoyi’s critical challenges.