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!

 

 

This entry was posted on Freitag, Januar 23rd, 2009 at 23:51 and is filed under on location, surFAIR.