surFAIR

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!

 

 

Water will find its way everywhere. It may take some time, but in the end it will pass, break through and spread. The guys from Cleanoceanproject invented a great initiative we would like to introduce you.

The people behind the Cleanoceanproject believe that everything needs its time to grow, be it a child, a plant or an idea. To watch this growth is such an satisfying experience.

The Cleanoceanproject based on Fuerteventura, started in 2000. With their positive approach they try something different, to respect nature and have a good time in the process. The goal is to protect the oceans, waves and beaches. And the Philosophy is that everybody is part of the soluton. To make it short: Do your bit. Be part of it.

Everything started with Beach Cleans on the Northshore. They invited friends to meet up and collect all sorts of litter. They handed out t-shirts and film boxes which they got from local photo shops, to put cigarette butts in.

Than they asked the local government on Fuerteventura for support, for gloves and bags. The government picked up the litter which had been collected. Since than, little by little their attitude towards nature is changing and now they keep an eye on beaches by sending out staff.

Since then many Beach Cleans have followed. Word of mouth spread, the little thought has grown slowly first among friends then it swept over to Lanzarote, the Cape Verde Islands, Maroc and even across the Atlantic to Brazil.

The result of the engagement is highly visible. The beaches are cleaner, especially on Fuerteventura. To see this is a great reward and gives hope and strength to keep on going. Thanks to all of you for your support.

For more infomation check out cleanoceanproject.blogspot.com