SPECIAL FILM PROJECT
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We are looking for organizations to sponsor some of the TunaHAKI orphans on a Cultural Exchange Trip to the United States to study with professional acrobats and gymnasts. Hollywood filmmaker Mason Bendewald has already committed to shoot a documentary about the children and follow them over on what will surely be a remarkable journey.
These children are so eager to learn, so hungry for knowledge – any chance to study with professional acrobats will exceed their wildest dreams. It will show them that there is a future in acrobatics if they continue to work hard. Additionally, this trip would have long-lasting effects in the local community. The ultimate goal of the Centre is to become self-sustaining. If the children get the opportunity to fly to America, word would spread like wildfire through the community. The children would receive national publicity in Tanzania, which means more people would want them to perform at local functions, which means more income for the Centre. Word would also spread to other street children. They will hear about the street kids who worked hard and got to take an airplane to another country, and they too would want to work hard. It would undoubtedly lead to the rescue of more homeless children from the streets.
The TunaHAKI kids are also eager to meet other children, especially disadvantaged ones like themselves, and this trip would include a cultural exchange with underprivileged children in the U.S. It would also be the centerpiece of a major fundraising and publicity push in North America.
We are currently raising money to cover airfare for the children.
If you are an individual or corporate sponsor who would like to help
make this dream come true, click here to Donate Now.
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"The children at TunaHAKI are amazing. When you hear their stories, and the
traumas they have been through, it is difficult to believe that they are the
same smiling, beautiful and friendly children before you. I know this is due
to the work David does with them. Kids that grow up on the streets have very
low self esteem and learn not to trust anyone, and yet these kids, through
their acrobatic routines, are forced not only to trust one another, but to
work together as a team and a family. And at the end of it all, they have
something to be proud of. It’s beautiful and it works."
Zoe Marinkovich
Assistant Director, TunaHAKI Foundation
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