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Sunday, 20 May 2012
 
 
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We are convinced: Education is the only effective weapon against poverty.

With our projects we would like to support the people of Zanzibar through...

  • the fulfillment of basic needs
  • the construction of a primary and professional school
  • improving social and economic structures
  • incentives to independent thinking and acting 

to enable them to receive an education, which should later lead them to financial independence. We provide self for self-help; however, the inhabitants of Zanzibar also need your support in order to combat poverty.
 


 

Why did we start our projects there?

 
This is Zanzibar from our point of view:
An exotic tropical island surrounded by beaches of white sand and a turquoise-blue sea...


This is Zanzibar from the point of view of many of its inhabitants...

We decided to start these projects because in Zanzibar…

  • there is a shortage of clean drinking water and electricity and illnesses such as malaria, cholera and typhoid are widespread.
  • due to the lack of medicine and hygiene, child mortality rates are very high.
  • the life expectancy is 45 years on average.
  • 80 % of local inhabitants live on less than one US Dollar per day.
  • unemployment rates are extremely high, because locals generally don’t speak English as fluently as mainland Tanzanians and lose many job opportunities to the latter.
  • kindergardens and preschools are practically non-existent.

 

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