Friday, September 14, 2012

(56) One-man international aid organization

This article is found in the January 2003 issue of Reader's Digest. I will just give a few details:
Name:         Hannes Urban
Nationality:  Austrian
Occupation: Taxi driver
Projects:      1. Bringing clothes for South African homeless children
                   2. Bringing boxes of medicine to indigenous Mexicans
                   3. Providing clean and safe drinking water in needy community in a South African village
Organization: Wir Helfen (We help, in German)
Internet site:  www.wir-helfen.org
Donors:          Friends, passengers, pharmaceutical companies, shipping companies, airlines
                      Peter Langthaler(provided $5000 to transport medicine to Sudan)
Helper:           Christine Urban (sister-in-law of Hannes)
Contact:        Dr. Juan Romero, Cuautepec, Mexico City
                     Thobeka Sidlayi, Rohlweni, 320 Km from Durban

From the article, Hannes started with travelling, then he was called to do this work.

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