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Firefighting equipment is brought to Tanzania

Jens Demarczyk

Aid Association "Voice of Kilimanjaro Kids" starts the next auxiliary Tour

Not even a year of new Anspacher Aid Association "Voice of Kilimanjaro Kids" (VoKK) is working on its development projects in Tanzania, has traveled the first chairman Hartmut ring in a prominent accompaniment to East Africa.

Neu-Anspach Mayor Klaus Hoffmann travels with ring and four other members on their next trip to East Africa. Of 24 to 30 November Hoffmann and his daughter Inga fly on the black continent.

"A presentation of the firefighters Dirk Merkel and Jürgen walnut at the beginning of the voluntary fire brigade in Hausen aroused my curiosity. It impressed me very much, as there can be sustained in Tanzania helped by simple means, "said Hoffmann, himself a member of the top New Anspacher VoKK and firefighters, to his travel motives. The trip, for Hoffmann takes a week's vacation, also fits into the end of the year jam-packed schedule of the mayor. "On 1 December budget meeting. The trip to Tanzania I was able to slide in between. Hopefully my skin not the jet lag too much from the pines, "the mayor said with a grin in the packaging of the technical equipment used fire Hausener fire. The comrades to fire chief Merkel give this further donation (helmets, jackets and gloves) on to the firefighters at the foot of Kilimanjaro.

VoKK-ring boss told of the now five projects initiated VoKK in East Africa. It is about tuition sponsorships for orphans now passed fire equipment, support for street children in sport club Kitajosce in Moshi, ensuring the drinking water supply of two primary schools in the city and dental assistance and eye exams for school children. "We're using our contacts in East Africa that, in order to show each club member the true African continent and the sustainability of our projects," he explained. Already 23 members attended ring during his trips to the foot of Kilimanjaro.

Moshi now a meeting between Hoffmann and his Tanzanian counterpart Michael Raphael Japhary is planned in which the donations are to be transferred. "The mayor of a 162,000-inhabitant city in Tanzania has certainly other worries than to meet me. I'm looking forward to the encounter, "predicts Hoffmann.

His travel arrangements for the trip to the African continent has the usual medical preparations: malaria and yellow fever prophylaxis. To the many stories VoKK members in countless conversations. "I'm excited about the real Africa," says Hoffmann. Ring promised his board colleague Walnut Mayor stowing the fire chasm: "You will return with many lasting impressions and grounded."