Alphonce Leonard, a scholarship holder of our foundation "Promoting Youth – Crossing Boundaries" has founded a branch of the foundation in his home city Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Many young people in Tanzania want to become engineers, teachers, doctors or nurses to develop the country and help the people. In most cases, these motivated children and young people cannot realise these goals because they lack the necessary money for further education after secondary school. Both government and private scholarship programmes are not enough to give the many young people a chance at education.

In 2014, Father Martin Rupprecht and Alphonce Leonard's paths crossed for the first time. At that time, Fr. Martin was in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, and was a guest in the parish of Manzese. The parish is located in the poorest part of the city of six million inhabitants.

Anyone who has ever been to Dar es Salaam knows that it is easy to lose track of the city in this metropolis. That's why the priest of the Manzese parish had assigned his head altar boy, Alphonce, to help Fr. Martin. A young dedicated man full of potential.