Fountain of Peace Children’s Foundation NZ with Tania Sharr.
Fountain of Peace Children’s Foundation New Zealand was launched as a charitable trust in New Zealand in 2012 and is all about creating family-based homes, within a village community, for orphaned and abandoned children in Uganda, as well as working to provide clean water,education, healthcare and sustainable projects for the whole community. In 2014 Bethel Babies Home was opened in the Rwenjaza community where Fountain of Peace is based. Since its opening 89 babies have been received into their care. Not only is Fountain of Peace helping to save lives, this organisation is helping to transform a community crippled by poverty into a community filled with hope for a much better future.
Tania Sharr works as their Canterbury Coordinator – a voluntary position she has held for the past 11 years.
Prior, she spent her first 17 years growing up on a farm in Mid Canterbury before moving to Auckland to train as a registered nurse. She specialized in children’s nursing, sub specializing in paediatric oncology then gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Health Care Specialty Nursing. She has nursed overseas in England and Canada and has travelled extensively including a four month trip through Africa in 2000.
Tania is now based in Christchurch with her husband Jonny and two children aged 16 and 13 years old and has travelled to visit the work of Fountain of Peace in Uganda in 2018 and again in 2023.
She is looking forward to sharing with you the wonderful work being achieved by Fountain of Peace NZ. She will also share about her role here in Canterbury working alongside young student ambassadors helping to inspire, empower and equip them to take positive action, with incredible results, creating lasting change for others in need.
There's a $5 koha to attend but please don't let cost be a barrier!
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