Your commitment - Uganda 2017
The project work with TOOLS FOR LIFE has given me the opportunity to help others to help themselves and to noticeably improve their quality of life. Thank you for this unforgettable experience!
Mara Weber
Sustainable electricity for a children’s village and school - Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti
Helping to connect–the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation is re-establishing the electricity supply to the children’s village and school complex in Haiti. The solar batteries are defective in the Don-Bosco children’s village with attached school in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, thus the electricity supply is crippled. The photo-voltaic array cannot be operated without the minimum voltage from battery storage being present. The TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation is supporting the procurement of new solar batteries with 10,000 €. A diesel generator is currently supplying only emergency electricity to the children’s village and the school. The project is being carried out by our project partner Don Bosco Mondo e.V. around 150 girls between 6 and 18 years old live in the children’s village. They are orphans or from socially deprived families. About 510 students are educated in the attached school. The school was built in the process of the rebuilding assistance following the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010.
Facts and numbers
95,900
Euro Budget
8
monthThe background to the project
Croix-des-Bouquets is 13 kilometres north-east of the Haitian capital city Port-au-Prince. According to the World Bank Haiti is the poorest country in the northern hemisphere. The country was severely devastated by an earthquake in January 2010. The United Nations assume that 222,000 people lost their lives in the catastrophe and 2.3 million became homeless. Even nine years on, the country has still not recovered from the catastrophe.
| Country | Haiti |
| Human Development Index | 169 |
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Your commitment - Senegal 2012
My TOOLS FOR LIFE staff trip to Senegal in 2012 was a unique experience. And the fact that I was standing on a meadow where today, after only two years, there is a school for several hundred pupils, which the Foundation helped to finance, is almost unbelievable. Great cause and great projects that make a little bit of a difference in the world.
Olaf Schlotmann
Your commitment - Uganda 2015
It is inspiring with how much commitment and passion the foundation devotes to its projects.
Timm Wagenknecht