Founded in 1998, Espoir et Vie (engl. "Hope and Life") is a not-for-profit association created by a group of French residents of Congolese and non-Congolese origin. The association  builds on the help of French and international sympathisers willing to contribute at their best to a novel approach to support the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular, by engaging in a range of socio-cultural projects and efforts.

Espoir et Vie is a non-governmental organisation that engages in a large and variable scope of actions in the best interest of the Congolese population.

1. Promoting the Congolese youth by a adapted and sustained education by the establishment of libraries, health centres, etc.

2. Providing medical equipment, medicines, school books and other materials within the framework of educational and biological institutes.

3. Enabling exchanges between Congolese academic youths and their European counterparts.

4. Establishmen of required means in Congolese towns to enable an effective electrification of the town centres.

5. Establishment and sustainment of enhanced centres for the purposes of education and professional orientation for the unemployed youths, in order to significantly reduce vagrancy, which is often the cause of the exodus of talent.