AIDA Cruise & Assistance is dedicated to bettering academic alternatives on the earth’s poorest areas. Their first faculty, funded completely by donations, opened in Cebu Metropolis, Philippines, 5 years in the past. Since then, AIDA has helped set up quite a few colleges in twelve nations. One such faculty is the Okanguati Main College in Namibia, which opened in Might 2020 and accommodates 160 youngsters. The varsity’s significance to the area people was highlighted throughout a go to by AIDA President Felix Eichhorn and FLY & HELP founder Reiner Meutsch.
“The curiosity and cheerfulness of the youngsters from the Kaokoveld in Okanguati is exactly why AIDA Cruise & Assistance is gathering donations and constructing colleges. We’re more than happy that our initiative has already supplied numerous youngsters in deprived areas of the world with a everlasting place at school. On this method, we’re offering youngsters and future generations with entry to an training and thus with an actual likelihood for a greater future. The spectacular dedication of our crew and our friends exhibits that we will obtain nice issues collectively,” says Felix Eichhorn.
With the funding of the sixtieth faculty, the AIDA Cruise & Assist initiative celebrates one other essential success. All 60 tasks, with a complete capability of round 7,000 sustainable faculty locations, are within the implementation section, with 40 colleges having already commenced lessons.
The main target is on the nations of origin of the crew and the areas commonly visited by the eleven AIDA ships. As a part of AIDA Cruise & Assist, the cruise firm launched a undertaking final 12 months through which every AIDA ship is assigned a college undertaking that’s financed by means of raffles and auctions. Consequently, each AIDA ship was capable of finance a minimum of one faculty final 12 months. For instance, AIDAsol raised cash for a three-classroom faculty in Ambodiriana, Madagascar, and AIDAdiva funded a particular faculty in Kodigipalli, India. AIDA works carefully with the Reiner Meutsch Basis FLY & HELP to gather donations for the development of colleges in a particular area.
In 2024, AIDA will proceed to lift cash for varsity tasks all over the world. The primary fundraising campaigns are already underway. This 12 months, the crews on board have as soon as once more the purpose of funding their very own faculty and bringing smiles to youngsters’s faces.
Extra details about AIDA Cruise & Assist’s dedication and particulars on tips on how to donate may be discovered on-line at www.aida.de/cruiseandhelp.