Tanzania: Airline Says Passengers Donate to Orphanage
allafrica.com/etnSwiss International Airlines passengers have donated Sh208 million for building an orphanage in Dar es Salaam. The money was donated to the SOS Children’s Villages international charity via the airline’s in-flight collection campaign in the course of 2005, said the airline’s statement.
The Dar es Salaam SOS Children’s Village will have 13 houses and other facilities.
When completed it will provide 120 young orphans with a safe and caring environment. Parts these places have been occupied to date. The new Swiss House was officially opened last week at the SOS Children’s Village in Dar es Salaam and will shelter 10 orphans.
The airline has been collecting money on behalf of the SOS Children’s Villages international charity since September 2002.
It does so by distributing envelopes to passengers on its flights and inviting them to use these to donate any spare foreign currency or other change they may have.
It has been supporting the SOS Children’s Villages international charity for disadvantaged children for some time now through its “Your small change can make a big change” campaign to collect loose foreign currency aboard its flights.
November 9, 2007
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