This project was born from an idea when we started to travel around Africa visiting countries like Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Kenya. It was in Kenya when we realized that in addition to be a beautiful country, the children, the young people and the women were living in a very situations of real needs making great efforts to survive. FRIENDS FOR AFRICA took conscience about it, specially in Kenya
where in áreas like Turkana, the children stopped the car asking for water to drink. The women had to walk kilometers to find and carry water walking under the strong sun. In Turkana nowadays people has found water for all Kenya population but the infrastructures to provide all the population of water will take long time then, we are talking about a very big country. But there are other areas like Ngong, where projects like Mama Tunza Children's Home are surviving thanks to the people like us that work there. The main problems in Kenia are the water, the food, the sanity and the education. The conscience of the family is very poor. People have children that after are abandonated by their mothers while the fathers have run out from home. Thanks to people like Mama Tunza, these children have a roof and some food and water. There are other regions in Kenya like Kisumu or the coast where the drugs are a big problem in young people. In Kisumu, the most of the children and young people snif glue. In the coast, the biggest problem is the he**ine and the prostitution. These both things are linked. We have to say that, there is a part of unresponsable tourism that travel to the coast to look for s*x, with a young boy or with a young girl. At change, they buy luxury things to them. The people of the coast lives in an unreal life then, when is low season for tourism, they have not any kind of work to do. They are in the habit to live the moment without expectatives of future. Is then in low season when the most of the people fall in the he**in to run out of the real life. To arrive to all these problems needs economical resources and people involucrated with these causes. People able to helping with their work. FRIENDS FOR AFRICA took off with this project to develop an activity doing Expeditions and Safaris to all these areas, focussing our way or traveling to people professional in any science area or art and also, people concienciated, students whose want to develop a tesis in University or College or anybody who want to write about paleontology, archeology, natural sciences, medicine or people who want to make a photo or video documentary and, also anyone who want to live a great adventure and experience learning something new from the others. Our purpose is to promove the responsable tourism and to help the different communities. Because this, we give incomings to the different villages, tribes or communities throughout our Expeditions and Safaris, accommodating our groups in addition in Campsites, in remote villages of the different tribes to share the daily life with them naturally, as they are. FRIENDS FOR AFRICA, pay a rate for setting tents in a tribe village and buy the diner to them for the group, for instance; buying a goat to the tribe. They sacrifice the goat and prepare it for diner. In a fisherman's communities, FRIENDS FOR AFRICA pay a rate to the native fisherman to fish and to prepare the lunch or the diner and to set our tents in the place they live. This is one of the ways. The other way to help is destinating a part of the incomings which come from the expeditions and safaris to the projects for development, to build infrastructures or to pay the school and university fees of the children and young. Nowadays, we are destinating part of our incomings in Mama Tunza Children's Home in Ngong (Nairobi), where we have built a farm of chickens for children's diet and to make a market, to get them earn and to be owners of their own benefits, all of this, training them how to invest the money to make it increase and to continue investing in their needs and spenses, to grow up every time more. You can get more information in our website: www.friendsforafrica.com that is in the net but under construction although almost finishing it. Our website has a menu called: The soul of FRIENDS FOR AFRICA, where we explain which is our purpose doing the Expeditions and Safaris. Moreover, we have create this page in Facebook only to publish all the work that we have done and all what we are doing, thanks to people like all of you. FRIENDS FOR AFRICA, welcomes you to this site and thanks all of you, your interest and your companion, hopping to make bigger our team with all of you.
