Cooperation with the Hans-Sachs-Berufskolleg

Posted on 14. July 2017 by deepsky0712

Since 2017, the Hans-Sachs-Berufskolleg (HSBK), Oberhausen has been an important cooperation partner for the ZAC e.V. in the context of the technical planning for the construction and infrastructure of the later children’s village “Angaza Children’s Village in Lutindi / Tanzania.” Headmaster OStD Marc Bücker and ZAC Board of Directors agreed on a sustainable cooperation in 2017. The services of HSBK are carried out pro bono for ZAC e.V..
In July 2017, HSBK’s first working group traveled as part of a project week headed by Dr. Ing. Sascha Geifes (formerly HSBK) to Tanzania, to get an idea of the local conditions and made initial plans.

At the beginning of 2019 Georg F. Terbeck (teacher at HSBK and Dipl. Bau-Ing.) visited the project in replacemet for the former employee Dr. Ing. Geifes with two technician students Lutindi, to the building plot to accurately measure and map. In the ensuing project week of the HSBK, the collected knowledge and a jointly compiled catalog of requirements led to concrete plans for the arrangement of the children’s village and for the on-site explanations, which are to be implemented later in the construction phase.

For the spring of 2020, a new travel delegation of the HSBK to Lutindi is planned to prepare the first construction measures, which should begin in the year with the construction of the first children’s home.

One of several outer views from drafts made by HSBK for a children’s home.

One of several proposed drafts – layout of the children’s home

Layout of the future, two-section assembly hall, designed by engineers of HSBK Oberhausen, finalised in cooperation with our Tanzanian employees on site.

Our Object Godparents

Posted on 20. October 2016 by deepsky0712

Kapellmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, Mönchengladbach, überregional tätige und bekannte Kanzlei für Baurecht, hat die Objektpatenschaft für ein Kinderhaus (das Kapellmann-Haus), Teil der Bauphase I, übernommen.

FIEGE Logistik Stiftung & Co.KG, Greven, foundation of the internationally operating Fiege Group, one of the leading European contract service providers, has assumed full sponsorship of the property for the energy house.

Michael Plängsken, Wesel, takes over the object sponsorship for the roofed playground in the children’s village.

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH, a company with great tradition that located in Duisburg since 1921, donated the total plan costs for the construction of the storage room, which is part of building phase I.

Hargreaves raw material services GmbH and the Eller family from Duisburg have donated the complete total plan costs for the water supply of the village as well as one of the children’s homes for 12 children, which are part of building phase I.

The Grafschafter Lions Club Moers (GLCM) donated the complete plan costs for turning the village into a green space, which is part of building phase III.

The costs for the soil assessment were taken over by Katja and Jens Zühlsdorf, Dinslaken, which is part of building phase I.

The waste water basin was donated by Perfacts GmbH, Dorsten.

The fans of the MSV Duisburg collected for the construction of the village meeting point copper and other euro coins, which is part of building phase II and allowed the construction of the sports field for the C.B.R.O. LUTINDI FC and for the two schools of the municipality Lutindi, which is building phase III.

Families Schulte / Fisser, Duisburg, Bottrop, Olpe, Essen, took over the project sponsorship for a children’s home, part of construction phase I.

Rainer Pastoor, Duisburg, has taken a 50% share to build the garage/ tool shed, part of construction phase II.

Becoming an object godparent within the scope of the premium partnership

Posted on 19. October 2016 by deepsky0712

As object godparent, you are solely responsible for the entire financing of one of our planning projects in the amount as planned/stated, which can be taken from our financial plan. For some objects, we offer part godparenthood. It is up to you to financially support any number of shares.

With your godparenthood, you contribute significantly for a specific purpose to the financing the overall project. Which objects are open for godparenthood can be taken from the individual building phases.

Despite the opportunities that we offer to our premium partners (see menu item “Becoming a Premium Partner”), we document the development of your godparenthood in pictures.

You want to become an object godparent? Please transfer your donation to our account, specifying:

“Object godparenthood (+ object name + share) – ZAC children’s village”

Send us an e-mail with you contact data such as name, address and e-mail address to zac.verein@gmail.com For your donation as object godparent, we will issue a donation certificate.

Construction phase 1
Available object godparenthoods
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Site grading, making the site ready for building: 10 shares for 3,000 € each

Assembly hall with dining hall and sanitary facilities: 5 shares for 5,500 € each

Village kitchen: 3 shares for 3,400 € each

Construction phase 2
Available object godparenthoods
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Children’s house number 4: 3 shares for 3,400 € each

Farm shop: 3 shares for 3,500 € each or 1 share for 10,000 €

Home of the village’s head with reception and administration: 5 shares for 3,000 € each

Farm animal stables: 2 shares for 2,500 € each or 1 share for 5,000 €

Pens for small animals: 1 share for 3,500 €

Garage/tool shed: 2 shares for 2,500 € each or 1 share for 5,000 €

Cultivation areas fruit/vegetables + tools: 3 shares for 2,700 € each
or 1 share for 8,000 €

Pavement works (ways) in the village area: 4 shares for 2,500 € each
or 1 share for 10,000 €

Furniture for all houses: 5 shares for 4,400 € each
or 1 share for 22,000 €

Construction phase 3
Available object godparenthoods
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Children’s house number 5: 3 shares for 3,500 € each or
1 share for 10,000 €

Lodge number 1 for tourists or volunteers: 3 shares for 3,500 € each
or 1 share for 10,000 €

Lodge number 2 for tourists or volunteers: 3 shares for 3,500 € each
or 1 share for 10,000 €

Training workshop (unsupported hall): 5 shares for 4,000 € each
or 1 share for 20,000 €

Used Off-road vehicle as supply/transport vehicle: 3 shares for 3,400 € each
or 1 share for 10,000 €

Testimonials

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Becoming a Premium Partner

Posted on 9. July 2016 by deepsky0712

You can become a premium partner of the ZAC project by donating a one-off minimum amount of € 2,000 or more.

We offer different options to our ZAC premium partners.

Your link: You can present your company name on our website under the “Premium Partner” menu item. We may link to your company’s website, if desired. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is also good publicity for the donator.

Your personal testimonial: We open up our website to tell the world that your company is supporting our project. Complete the sentence of our principle “We donate to this project because …” by using your own words and images. With this, we close ranks and show the world the line of people who are willing to support our project. Contact ZAC for further details.

You company space in ‘Angaza Children’s Village’: We will establish areas where our biggest partners are being presented as premium partners in our children’s village. This means: In future, your company’s logo may shine in Tanzania. To do so, we kindly ask you to provide an unbreakable, weatherproof plate (maximum size 100 x 50 cm with four boreholes). We will take care of shipping it to Tanzania. Contact ZAC for further details.

Your charitable work in the media: It goes without saying that you can use your involvement in our project for your company’s PR, both internally and externally. If you want to use your involvement in the media, there will be someone specified by ZAC as contact for journalists. This contact will be open for any kind of one-on-one interview and/or attention-grabbing images whilst handing over a cheque, for example. Contact ZAC for further details.

You will receive our exclusive photo stories with information about and during the entire building phase, in addition to the electronic newsletter, if desired.

We kindly ask you to transfer your donation to our account with the reference “Premium Partner 2016 – ZAC Children’s Village” and send the following pieces of information (name, address, e-mail address) to our e-mail inbox using zac.verein@gmail.com.

We will be glad to issue a donation receipt for your donation.

A village for the future

Posted on 1. July 2016 by deepsky0712

The village will be called ‘Angaza Children’s Village’. ‘Angaza’ is Kiswahili and means ‘Lighten up’. It will be a friendly home for up to 60 children that we want to gradually build. This is what ZAC wants to provide for its fosterlings.We build on a 90.000 m² large property, which is provided to us by the MeTL-Goup contractor free of charge.

On the site, we gradually want to erect a total of 5 family homes, in each of which 12 children can live and are looked after. Each of the houses will have a massive construction, a gabled roof made of roof tiles and each house has three spacious bedrooms for up to 12 children. Each house will have its own guardian (so called house mothers) who will get a separate room for her own.

The heart of the village will be a spacious assembly hall, where all villagers can meet in the friendly dining hall to have their meals. The assembly hall will also have a kitchen and storage locations that will get enlarged when necessary to meet the requirements of the villagers. The sanitary facilities such as showers, washbasins and toilets will also be located in the direct vicinity of the assembly hall.

Outer view of the two-section assembly hall.

It is planned that the main buildings in the children’s village are group around central roofed terrace area. Here, a roofed playground will be located. A small football field is only some steps away. Trees will be planted across the complete area to provide sufficient numbers of shaded areas.

Besides the family homes and the central buildings, ZAC plans additional buildings: a spacious training workshop (locksmith’s shop and sewing room), a house with bedroom and office for the village head, a small reception building; a village garage with tool shed and its own farm shop in the reception area of the property. The farm shop is to sell possible production excess from the village’s farm animals and cultivation of fruit and vegetables to people in the vicinity of the village.

There will be areas for small fields and patches, stables for farm animals such as chicken and goats. Initially, those are intended to supply the village with food. Any excess from farming and products manufactured in the carpentry and sewing room will be sold in the farm shop.

It goes without saying that the children’s village requires its own infrastructure. An energy house with high-tech solar technology will supply the village with electricity. Energy generated by solar energy cannot only be used by the village itself. It can also be used as a means for buying or selling. The energy can be sold by the village for charging mobile phones, for example or to buy food from the surrounding villages.

A water reservoir will be erected to save water, it will also contain the pumps and filter technology (PAUL system) to supply the village with fresh water. The water is collected using a fresh water basin, which is supplied by a crystal-clear mountain stream that runs through the site. Non-potable water for the sanitary facilities will be collected using rainwater. A cistern will be in place for this. This water is also to be used during dry periods to water the agricultural area.

For the future, and to guarantee sustainable financing of the children’s village, two additional buildings (lodges) will be erected at a later stage. They will be rented to tourists who want to pay a visit to the beauty of the Tanzanian nature and wildlife and will also serve as a means of funding the village. The lodges can also be used to house volunteers of the project.

About us

Posted on 21. June 2016 by deepsky0712

In May 2016, eight founding members of the Zebras Active Community e.V. (ZAC) met. Their ambitious aim was and remains to establish a children’s village in the East African country of Tanzania. The idea itself was part of a previous endeavour. Our idea of this project is based on profound background.

Since 2014, some socially engaged supporters of the German football club MSV Duisburg finance an orphanage and two street football teams in Tanzania. This is a unique story of its own and originates from a rather coincidental trip around the world. A supporter of MSV Duisburg went on sabbatical leave for a year and travelled around the world. His first stop was in Africa, where he met people from an orphanage in Dar Es Salam. By means of social networking, MSV supporters started a surprising aid programme from which a reliable partnership with the orphanage established. Since then, some success has been made for the local children: Infrastructures have been improved, the orphanage has been extended, and a car has been found and shipped to Tanzania. Any many things more. Thanks to generous donations, the street footballers have also gained new perspectives.

Image of the orphanage that is financially supported by supporters of MSV Duisburg since 2014.

This commitment left the impression of the particularly difficult living conditions of especially underprivileged children in Tanzania. based on the idea of Holger Glücks, founder of ZAC, it had been decided that a completely new children’s village has to be built in another location. Supported by local guardians, we want to make it possible for up to 60 children to grow up in a protective and responsible environment.

MAP Angaza children's Village Lutindi

The aspiration of our project is to provide a good and secure haven for these children. In addition, we would also like to give these children the opportunity to gain access to education, which is partly subject to fees in ordinary Tanzania, and to stimulate the future perspectives of these children by opening access to apprenticeships. All our activities aim at capacity building. In this case, ZAC acts regardless of religious or political orientation.

Individual Donations

Posted on 20. June 2016 by deepsky0712

Make individual donations of any amount and determine the way in which you would like to support our children’s village project.

Up to € 200.00, you only need the transfer voucher for the financial authorities to make your donation tax-deductible .
When you donate more than € 300, we will be glad to issue a donation receipt (only for German donators).

Please transfer your individual donation to our account, specifying ‘Individual Donation ZAC Umbele Children’s Village” as reference.

Use the certified online donation form from HelpDirect, by clicking on the picture on the left. You are directly forwarded to the donation form. For supporting us, you will get your very own personal donation certificate as a little “Thank you” in a separate e-mail. A small reminder for your good deed.

If you have a PayPal account, you can alternatively place your donation by clicking on the donation button below.