Ever since high school, I’ve had a strong desire to go to Africa, and a little less than two years ago, I decided to work on making that dream a reality. My Google searches led me to Kolajna ljubavi – the organization that started my volunteer journey. The first stop was volunteering in Croatia, and the final destination was St. Anthony’s Orphanage in Songea.

The journey to Songea is long, chaotic, and exhausting, but all of that fades away as soon as you fee...

I titled my diary like this when, now more than a year ago, I decided to quit my job in Germany, return to Croatia, and made the most important decision at that moment, which was to go to Africa for volunteering. The initial decision was that I would go exclusively through a Croatian organization, and that’s when I found 'Kolajna Ljubavi,' an organization founded based on personal experience from a stay in distant Tanzania. I signed up for a course that may seem too demanding at first,...

I began following the charity a few years ago, and how the time went by, a will for volunteering in Africa also came to me. I was in college and in my schedule it was hard to put a longer period of time in a far away remote place, so I started going to the volunteering preparations so I could go there after I finish school. I was still a student, and I decided to be also a part of the Godparenting project that enables education to a student in Africa. I am a godparent for two years!

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