01.11.2011: Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Oswaldo Cruz is located in the north of Rio de Janeiro and is a lower class residential area surrounded by favelas (slums) with a meagre supply of jobs. Training centres are almost non-existent which makes it more difficult for adolescents and school graduates to receive appropriate professional or vocational training [...]
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04.07.2011: Mumbai – India In 2003, Lufthansa employee Rita Römert-Steinau, founded the Bochum association, “Chance of Life” to change the living conditions of socially disadvantaged girls and women in India due to lack of education. Improved education and training opportunities help to secure jobs and reduce migration to the slums of Mumbai. The projects the association undertakes [...]
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09.06.2011: Johannesburg – South Africa Since 2002, Rays of Hope e.V., founded predominantly by cabin attendants from Frankfurt, has been committed to primarily assisting children from the Diepsloot Township, northwest of Johannesburg. Here, the people live in dilapidated corrugated iron shacks without access to running water or electricity. For the children growing up here the daily [...]
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18.03.2011: Help for Haiti has not fallen into oblivion. With the acquisition of school materials HelpAlliance has taken an immediate measure after the earthquake in order to restore some normality for the traumatized children. Thanks to the overwhelming donations of the Lufthansa Group and its employees, HelpAlliance is able to provide sustainable support. As a [...]
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04.08.2007: Pattaya – Thailand Each year, the Southeast coast of Thailand, with its booming tourism industry and thereby increasing prosperity, attracts millions of migrant workers from the extremely poor Northern regions of the country to the larger cities such as Pattaya. Due to these massive societal changes, it is often children who are left behind homeless [...]
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02.06.2007: Accra – Ghana Akwaaba – welcome to Kinder Paradise Ghana. “To learn for a better life“ is the main issue of this institution which has set itself the target to relieve the distress of street children and orphans in Accra. Kinder Paradise is a non-profit association and cares for a total of 128 children and teenagers [...]
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24.05.2007: Bangalore – India Around 60 000 street children live in Bangalore, and this number rises daily. The employees of five centers try to give a future to these children, as well as child workers of the nearby silk factories. Since 2001 HelpAlliance has been financing various programs for the affected children. To achieve this, HelpAlliance [...]
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19.05.2007: Pondicherry – India For years a Lufthansa employee has been taking care of orphans in the vicinity of Chennai. Some of these children just could not be looked after by their families and without a save place to stay they would never have had the chance to get a good school education. The Prana Project [...]
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17.05.2007: Djougou – Benin Better educational opportunities for children and young people are the aim of the HelpAlliance initiative in Djougou in northern Benin. Children are looked after at the existing day centre, and the infrastructure is being further improved. Since 1999 the Abéni project in Djougou has been supporting children and young people aged between 12 [...]
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12.05.2007: Delhi – India Mr and Mrs Arora – a New Delhi dressmakers couple – actively support children from the slums of the Indian megacity of New Delhi since 2002 What once started with the support of a little girl begging at the roadside evolved into an association registered in India which is now taking care [...]
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