Work and 3rd world

We would like to draw your attention to the homepage of “Friends of Afrika”, who support a special project in Kairo. It is a rehousing-project which aims at improving the living, housing and working situation of Kairo´scavengers, the Zabbalin group. Please find further information on this homepage: www.afrikafreundeskreis.de

Caritas organisation of the diocese Hildesheim and LABORA gGMBH both support the AGAPE Center in Dar Es Salaam, Tansania. At the beginning of 2008 Mr. Robert Miti and Ms Stella Miti have been qualified working in both Youth Centers Peine and Hildesheim of the LABORA gGmbh. With the help of numerous donations and the contributions of the Youth Centers Peine and Hildesheim, LABORA could send two containers with relief items to Tansania. They were gladly accepted in Tansania after several days afloat. Sewing and cycling workshops can now be arranged. Work and Third World helped to reprocess, pack and load. The pictures show the packed donations, how we loaded the containers as well as Robert and Stella Miti unloading the containers in Tansania.

On Monday 1 December 2008, the journey began. After we had collected and packed donations together with the regional section of the Workers Welfare Association in Hildesheim, as well as the Volkssolidarität Potsdam and the Public Social Aid Eritrea, the first lorry with a 40´container arrived on our courtyard in Stadtfeld shortly after 10 pm. The donations packed in boxes had already been arranged in beforehand planned order, so that Mr. Hertsch from Hildesheim customs and Mr. Schmidt from GTZ could start checking them. Friedhelm Hallmann, managing director of the regional Workers Welfare Association, arrived with Helmut Werner and Otto Drewes - they were cordially welcomed by our chairman Fred Schulz.Mr. Burghard from the Hildesheimer general newspaper gathered information and took some photos. At 12 o´clock, the lorry had left our courtyard to Hamburg-Waltershof, the second one had been loaded already after 55 min. and drove off at 13 o´clock. Both containers were sealed by customs with a high security label and a customs seal.