Who we are
How it all began
We met as colleagues in ´Haus Ruhrgarten´ , a retirement home. There we developped the desire to help together. Our club chairman Kofi Akoto was the first to bring us into contact with the topic poverty in Africa. He himself originates from the region Kumasi in Ghana. Since 2014, he has committed himself to bring material and food donations to the region Kumasi, but it was just not enough.
As a result, we teamed up as colleagues and thought about how we could help more effectively. The charity "Ein Lächeln für Ghana e.V." was founded in June 2015 by Eva Lendzion, Kofi Akoto, Heidi Krist, Mila Diener, Klaus Golombeck, Veronika Gumprecht and Carmen Janicke.
Our first commitment was taking over a sponsorship for ´the peace and love international school´. Hence, we wanted to support single mothers in this region in particular. We all work on a honorarly basis and every donation is directly transferred to Kumasi by Kofi Akoto. There it is deployed where it is most urgently needed.
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