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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Student-Writers-copy-300pxl.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" /><em>Au Sable is pleased to publish the following article written by guest writers to the blog: Adeito Masika Tahirana, Annie Mboligihe, Baraka Kambale Alex, Patrick Masomeko Mikajo, and Nadine Kavira Vitya (see photo on right), students from the &#39;Creation Care and the Common Good&#39; course at&nbsp;Universit&eacute; Chr&eacute;tienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These students have engaged in a service-learning project to share the pressing environmental issues facing the DRC with Christians around the world.&nbsp;</em></p>
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	In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a great number of the population is rural and live depending on forests. People are exploiting trees for selling timber, making charcoal, woods, etc. The exploiting of the forest has negatively impacted the environment in many different ways. These impacts tells us that our environment is not saved.</p>
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	The climate also is no longer the same. In Beni, which is one of three cities of North-Kivu, we have been touched by climate change. People can see nowadays the disruption of seasons. During the last ten years in Beni, people are no longer able to identify exactly in which months we have the dry season or rainy season. It is confused. In former times, from January to March and from August to September was the dry season and people were used to that. But nowadays we see disruption in this. We have rain during this period and sometimes drought appears in other months like in April, May or October. Because of these things, some Congolese have decided to struggle against this global warming. People must be involved, for nowadays in Beni, we are not saved from environmental exploitation.&nbsp;</p>
