The bulk of our time in Burkina Faso will be spent at the Association Relais-Jeunes in Bobo-Dioulasso. The Association funds and runs a vocational institution for female children who would otherwise not have access to an education. A French group’s support blog is here. We are excited about this opportunity. All images © Association Relais [...]
The What Took You So Long team will couple with Hoops 4 Hope in South Africa. This organization, active in South Africa, the United States and Zimbabwe, teaches life skills through basketball. More than 10 000 young people in South Africa and Zimbabwe have attended H4H’s workshops and several stay to build courts, recreation centres [...]
The TOV HIV/AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children Organization is a truly remarkable organization that has achieved great things on a tight budget. Focussed almost entirely on HIV/AIDS victims, the group has established a school, a sustainable garden and a thriving volunteer program. Please consider visiting their donations page. Beautiful Kidz is a strongly faith-based organization [...]
La Fondation Moktar Ould Daddah The foundation is a social service organization which promotes the memory and continuation of the social work of Mauritania’s first President, Moktar Ould Daddah. http://www.fmod-rim.org/fondation.html
We have a full list of NGO sponsors and beneficiaries throughout our African journey but have especially finalized our stopovers in Ghana. One of us, Sebastian, has extensive experience with a prominent NGO in Kumasi and that NGO has become a springboard for action throughout the small West African country. It is uplifting to know [...]
We are glad that we found the first and very fundamental sponsor for our project: Zimtkorn AG of Zurich, Switzerland. The young and driven internet solutions company sponsors our webhosting package and supports us with advice as well as manpower for the creation, customization and maintenance of our website. Their experience is particularly relevant to [...]
We are proud to cooperate with the African Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the oldest University in the Special Administrative Region. The programme will work closely with the What Took You So Long (WTYSL) movement to connect with NGOs, officials, media and sponsors in and outside of Africa. In the summer [...]