If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
IfakarAid gives financial support to the St. Laurent orphanage in Ifakara, Tanzania.
IfakarAid is a charitable non-profit organization with the sole objective of financial support of the St. Laurent orphanage located in the city of Ifakara in Tanzania.
- 2015the first visit to the St. Laurent orphanage
- 50friends and members, and we hope to grow
- 1goal: children’s smiles
Welcome to IfakarAid!
In the summer of 2015, during the Tropical and Travel Medicine seminar, of the postgraduate study program International Medicine – Health Crisis Management of the Medical School of Athens University, there was a visit at the St. Laurent orphanage.
The visit at the orphanage lasted a few hours, but it was enough to show the hard “face” of such an institution. The Heads of the orphanage struggle daily to ensure the inalienable rights of the children. They are struggling to provide food, shelter, water, education and health. They struggle for the right to a safe and happy childhood.
The personal commitment so that such an important trip and a strong aquaintance with the children of the orphanage does not consist only of stories and photos, created the IfakarAid association with a bank account of its own.
So far IfakarAid has 50 friends – members and hopes to grow with the sole objective of ensuring children smiles.
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.”
This African proverb includes the importance of the companionship of others in our lives.
When we are not alone but with friends, everything can be done more easily. Even pain, when shared, becomes milder.
Let’s all try TOGETHER, inalienable rights must not be hard to obtain.
Thank you
Yours sincerely
Stergiou Eleni
