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This short video gives an impression on life at Sabu and Franz Lackners projects  which are supported by all friends of surFAIR. Mitch and Bibi filmed it during their stay at Sabu, it was edited by  Martin ‘McFly ‘.

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Klaus Baumgartner passed with the boat Sama-Sama by Sabu to bring Franz Lackner a pneumatic drill for building new wells. The machine was financed by Bali Surfcamp, the Rotary Club and surFAIR. The rest of the money from the last surFAIR fleamarket was handed over to Franz Lackner to support the students of Sabu.

Thanx to Mario Entero for the nice pics!

Thanks to our very sucessfull Prorider flea market in December, the surFAIR platform finally was able to split the proceeds to support a very interesting second project.

FONELISCO (the Foundation of New Life for Street Children and Orphans) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation striving to help the street children and orphans of Mwanza, Tanzania. FONELISCO is not affiliated with any religious or political movement and works to help children regardless of their belief or social background.

 

Everyone who watched Hubert Sauper’s several awards winning shocking documentary “Darwins Nightmare” knows about the situation in Mwanza City on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria and has seen few of the former street kids who are living now in the FONELISCO childrens home. The initiators of surFAIR got to know about this organisation through Hubert Saupers’ friends and family who are all supporting FONELISCO as good as they can. 

Joseph Mabinga Elias, a social worker from Tanzania who established FONELISCO in 1997, dropped us the the following lines:

„First of all I want to thank you very much for your generous support and big heart. We have 61 children at our childrens home. Both orphans and homeless children. Their ages range between 3 to 16 years. As we are not an income generating organisation yet we do always depend on donations and gifts. We need to buy food to the orphanage and pay school fees for the children to go to secondary school. Right now we have 15 children who have been sent back from school because we have not yet paid their school fees. And we don’t have the money for all of them. Your donation of Euro 2000 will bring a great impact to the lives of the children.“

Check out the FONELISCO homepage (www.webhome.demon.nl/fonelisco/) to get to know more about it and watch the documertary „Darwins nightmare“ to get a feeling for the children’s situation in Mwanza and to see how urgently the money is needed!

Thanks to all surFAIR supporters!

 

 

The 2.200 Euros which were raised at the last surFAIR Party in June reached its destination. Our friend Klaus Baumgartner, skipper of the “Sama Sama” passed by the little island of Sabu to meet up with Franz Lackner and his happy pupils to hand over the money.

Photos by Alex Papis.

   A letter from Franz Lackner finally reached its destination after a month of travelling. Thanking everybody supporting the surFAIR project, he explained how the  money is used for the people in Sabu. Due to the extraordinary heavy rainfalls this season a lot of people are  suffering from malaria at the  moment. 10 out of the 45  girls from his residential school  are infected, some even  with two different strains. In addition, money is always tight for the tuition fees for the students in Kupang. These are just a few examples…for those who understand german can read his whole letter to find out more…. Read more

After a successful surfair charity party, we (Bibi and Mitch) went off to east indonesia at the end of july to hand over 2500€ for the projects of Franz Lackner , and additionally 20 donated scythes of the company „Zwei Rinder Sensen“ for the local farmers, to the island Savu.

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