Dear friends

We are back from our trip to India and Laos. Nina and Johanna first visited all ongoing projects in India. Annika joined us in Bangkok and Johanna had to go back to university in Madrid.  In Laos we were also able to visit all the projects, assess their needs, get an idea of ​​the respective economic situation, discuss everything administrative and financial with our project managers on site, think about further support and what is most important: spend lots of time with the children

TRAVEL REPORT 2024

We look forward to receiving feedback and any help is welcome to be able to continue our work to support these children on their journey

warmest regards

Nina, Annika & Johanna

this is how you can support us in our work:

Donation
https://tasna-association.ch/ihre-hilfe/ihre-spende/

Become a member and be part of our community
https://tasna-association.ch/your-help/membership/

buy tickets for our charity event and enjoy the Circus Conelli
https://tasna-association.ch/ihre-hilfe/benefizanlaesse/

or specifically take on a sponsorship
https://tasna-association.ch/ihre-hilfe/sponsoring/

Our trip  to India and Laos in October 2023

Dear TASNA friends

Since the 29th October we are back from our trip to India and Laos.

In India, we visited the Pole School in the Palghar District outside of Mumbai and were very touched by an incredibly warm welcome. 220 children from the villages in the area attend this school until the 9th. Class. After the classroom for the 9th class has been completed, we now hope that we will also have the 10th. Classrooms can be built so that the children can be taught there until the end of middle school.

We went on to the BALCO Medical Center in Raipur to meet children with cancer who participate in our nutrition program. We were allowed to be there, how the families received their “ration basket” for the month, which ensures a balanced diet during their child’s chemotherapy.

After a long journey via Delhi and Bangkok, we arrived in Luang Prabang in the afternoon and our first way led us directly to the orphanage and the nursery.

Our “Painting Competition” went into the evening. The children painted the Circus Conelli Flyer, as in the Pole School in India. You can take a look at the pictures at Circus Conelli on the 26th. November 2023 at our charity event.

The following day we visited 38 middle school students from the village of Ban Hoi Kan in their classroom. They are part of a middle school program that was able to start last year with the help of TASNA.

We continued in one of the remote villages to distribute eggs and milk to children and pregnant women as part of our nutrition program.

We were able to visit so many children in the almost 14 days, understand needs and see the living conditions with our own eyes. We come back with many ideas in our luggage such as enabling vocational training, launching further nutrition programs or expanding schools. But above all, we come back with the memory of many laughing children!

We say thank you for your support on behalf of each individual child in the different projects such as school education, nutrition programs and scholarships.

Your help counts and with the participation in our charity event on the 24th. November 2024 at 13:00h at Circus Conelli you can move a lot. As always, we will show you a small film at the beginning of the event about our journey and encounters and bring you up to date with our projects.

We are pleased to introduce you to a new project. In October 2022, we met the Cuddles Foundation, based in Mumbai. The Cuddles Foundation operates in over 42 hospitals in India and supports children with cancer with a nutrition program. With the help of a Food Health app, all nutritionists of the Foundation are connected to each other and can offer the right nutrition to the children through the collected data to strengthen them in their fight against cancer. TASNA has taken over the sponsorship of a hospital in Naya Raipur. In January of this year, 40 small patients were in our program at the BALCO Medical Center.

We will visit the children this year to see how we can continue to support them and their families.

In addition to the existing projects such as the nursery, the Aquaponic Farm in the orphanage of Luang Prabang and the nutrition program in remote villages, another project is added. Our project manager Andrew encourages the children from the villages to attend middle school. This is not in the village, i.e. the children must either attend a boarding school or travel further distances with a school bus. We are happy to support this project to provide the children with a good school education

NAM BAK, LAOS

We have been supporting 14-year-old Pasia since August 2020. At that time we had a small hut built for her near the school in Nam Bak. Without this house, she would have stayed in her village and would not have attended school.