The branch of our foundation in Tansania develops way better than we dared to hope in the beginning.

The coordinator of the branch, Alphonce Leonard, has summarized the activities and achievements during the first half of 2022 in a letter to us. See it for yourself:

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In July 2021, Fr. Martin sent a letter to the committee and the protégés from the newly founded branch of the foundation.

Dear children, dear young people and families!
Dear committee of our foundation "Promoting Youth - Crossing Boundaries"!
Dear guests!

Praise be to God who created us all! Praise be to God who divided us into so many different languages, cultures, religions, countries, and continents. This is how we help each other! This is how we are curious about each other. This is how we can discover something new every day. Because we are so different, we can tell each other a lot about what brings us joy and about what worries us.

I greet you from far away Europe and wish you much joy in learning and discovering your talents!

Alphonce Leonard, a scholarship holder of our foundation "Promoting Youth – Crossing Boundaries" has founded a branch of the foundation in his home city Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Many young people in Tanzania want to become engineers, teachers, doctors or nurses to develop the country and help the people. In most cases, these motivated children and young people cannot realise these goals because they lack the necessary money for further education after secondary school. Both government and private scholarship programmes are not enough to give the many young people a chance at education.

In 2014, Father Martin Rupprecht and Alphonce Leonard's paths crossed for the first time. At that time, Fr. Martin was in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, and was a guest in the parish of Manzese. The parish is located in the poorest part of the city of six million inhabitants.

Anyone who has ever been to Dar es Salaam knows that it is easy to lose track of the city in this metropolis. That's why the priest of the Manzese parish had assigned his head altar boy, Alphonce, to help Fr. Martin. A young dedicated man full of potential.

The annual report for 2022 is ready and we have good news! We were able to provide almost 60,000 euros for the new branch in Tanzania. A big thank you to everyone who supports the foundation! We can now help 560 children.

You can downlowad the whole annual report here.