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Tanzania, Dodoma
Partner organization: CV-Afrika-Hilfe e.V., Don Bosco
skate-aid support since 2009
The Skatepark in Tanzania is finished
The new skating facility in Dodoma has been opened. Click on the pictures for the gallery from Dodoma.
The Situation
It is important that young people in Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania, can escape after school from their grey lives and violence and can organise their leisure time sensibly and creatively in an active community - a situation which is normal for some but, if anything, does not correspond to reality for young people in Dodoma.
skate-aid campaigner Lydia Léhan-Fisk
Therefore the joint venture between Don Bosco, CV Afrika Hilfe and skate-aid has created a concrete skating facility for the area. The driving force and project manager on the German side is our highly experienced and extremely committed skate-aid campaigner Lydia Léhan-Fisk.
In addition to financial resources, Don Bosco is providing a suitable site in the grounds of the Don Bosco vocational training centre; CV Afrika Hilfe is providing both financial and organisation support for the project.
skate-aid accomplishes
Fundraising: Donations in kind
As to not weaken the local textile industry, no t-shirts will be sent to Africa - but rather skateboards, pads, helmets and accessories, that the kids will be able to borrow on the spot.
Know-how-Transfer: Organisation
It's extremely important that, with a project such as the construction of a skatepark, one has a reliable organisation on the spot - such as the CV-Afrika-Hilfe. Thus, Skate-Aid is optimally lined up directly in Africa. By the way: Lydia Léhan-Fisk is already talking to the Don-Bosco-Foundation, which wants to get finacially involved with the skatepark in the city of Dodoma.
Public Relations
Via the TITUS channels and contacts, the subject matter "CV-Afrika-Hilfe" was widely publicised and an enormous media interest, especially in Germany, could be generated.
