On October 29, 2020, Ute-Henriette Ohoven, UNESCO Special Envoy and Founder of the YOU Foundation, travelled along with her daughter Claudia Jerger, Vice President of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, to Senegal to accompany the residents as they moved into the new apartments. 60% of the units are complete.
Mithilfe der Weihnachtsspenden des vergangenen Jahrs konnte schon für viele Frauen ein selbstbestimmtes Leben ermöglicht werden. Dank dieser Unterstützung führen einige von ihnen bereits ihre eigene Aktivität.
The n-TV news channel recorded a segment on our project in Baraka. It shows the unimaginably difficult circumstances in which the people of Baraka live in and how the YOU Foundation will help them: http://www.n-tv.de/19857699
The people in Baraka will remember this day for the rest of their lives: The President of Senegal, Mr. Machy Sall, visited them in their slum in Dakar and expressed his joy about the improvements about to begin. 2000 inhabitants enthusiastically celebrated the President addressing them in their mother tongue Wolof. They know that substantial […]
The final phase in Dakar has begun: Soon, excavators and construction materials will occupy the dusty clearing that until now has been used as a soccer field by children. “Since more than 20 years, I know this slum and its refugees. It was high time to put an end to their poverty and to provide […]
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