2-play-on-earth

--- Help for Africa ---

On this page we want to introduce social projects, which we got to know during our travels and find worth supporting.

"FEMINA HIP", health-, HIV-, environmental-issues information project, in Dar Es Salaam, Tansania.

In Dar Es Salaam we stay with our friend Minou. In the past 10 years she developed an impressive project: FEMINA HIP. Informationwork in schools and in the public with magazines, TV-talkshows,... A great project but much too complex to put more details on our site. So just check out the interesting homepage of the project! www.chezasalama.com

    

"Center for Mentally Challenged Children" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In Addis we are staying at the Schmidt Family's place. Christoph Schmidt is working for the "Center for Mentally Challenged Children".

The center was established in 1986 to provide education and vocational assistance to children with special needs.

Since its inception the number of students has grown from 8 to 350. 

The "Early Care Program" offers physio-therapeutic help for 140 children and counselling for parents. Young girls and boys take part in a training to develop their self help abilities and to be less dependent.

This program is the only one of its kind in Addis Ababa and the whole of Ethiopia.

For More info about the center, the work with the children and how you can support the project, please check the page http://www.eecmy-cmcc.net/

  

"Yenege Tesfa", is helping parentless children in Gondar, Ethiopia.

In Gondar, Ethiopia, we learn to know the belgian couple Lea and Kobe. They are also cyclists like us (see bikers we met), but with another target. Their usual plan was to cycle to Central Africa and help there in social projects.

But things turn out a bit different. In Gondar, they get to know the young ethiopian woman Nigisti, who is running a small orphanage. Today the building is nothing more than a small house made of clay and wood with two rooms and an outhouse in front. The children get to eat leftover food from the towns prison...

There is a lack of many things: the building's roof is leaking, the outhouse needs to be rebuilt, there is no running water and no possibility to wash...

Fore more information on the project and how you can support the orphants of Gondar, please check the project's website: www.yenegetesfa.org or get in contact with Lea and Koba personally: fietsenvoorendoorafrika@gmail.com