Recent News & Entries
Aug 24,2024
Long expected meeting with the goddaughter
This summer finally my long-awaited trip to Tanzania and meeting Careen came true. So far, we were in touch only thro...
May 23,2024
Pub Quiz at Nursing Home St. Anna in Zagreb
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Apr 29,2024
“Love and Happiness Money Can't Buy” - A Volunteer's Story from Africa
Apr 28,2024
First Report from Project in Africa: ”Croatian Wings of Help”
Mar 30,2024
Digital Park Helps Spread The Word About "Godfather" Project
Jan 02,2024
New Year's Eve in Our African Orphanage
They say that a picture speaks a thousand words, and we add that the African pastries in the photos you see speak of...
Dec 27,2023
A Christmas Gift from Vis for Our Orphanage
Dec 26,2023
New (Paved) Paths Through the Orphanage
Dec 21,2023
Best Kolajna's Links for 2023.
Dec 20,2023
Croatian Wings of Help - Our New Project
Oct 20,2023
Ecological workshops and hygiene aid packages in the Imotski region
As part of our project "Hand of Clean Support", we held two ecological workshops that will greatly improve the mainte...
Oct 17,2023
Life in our orphanage is returning to normal
After a terrible fire that destroyed a large part of ou...
Oct 10,2023
Green Tools for Mental Health
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, we are publishing our green toolkit "Green Tools for Mental Heal...
Sep 13,2023
Club of Women Songea creates
Sep 06,2023
Project "Hand of cean support"
May 25,2023
ECo activities in Zagreb
Within our ECO relax project we are organizing many interessting activities for youth (18-30).
Mar 31,2023
Ecological workshops for youth
As a part of "ECO relaxation" project, we started conducting ecological work...
Mar 24,2023
A hygiene forum in Sinj
Mar 23,2023
Don't throw away - DONATE FOOD!
Mar 03,2023
Round table and exibition "Colored by Africa"
Jan 27,2023
Humanitarian action for Kindergarten
Due to the terrible fire that ravaged our Orphanage and completely destroyed the kindergarten, we registered the huma...
Jan 27,2023
VIDEO: Fire in the St. Anthony's orphanage
In the orphanage a fire started and destroyed the whole kindergarden part, offices and a part of the roof of a dining...
Jan 25,2023
News from the orphanage
Last week we cleaned the nursery from the debrys of the fire. We had some help from the neighboors and student of the...
Jan 16,2023
Fire in the St. Ante Orphanage
The fire engulfed a large part of St. Ante's orphanage and caused e...
Oct 05,2022
We are starting with a new Volunteer Course
Sign up and become Kolajna's link that will spread good deeds in Croatia and Africa. The introductory meeting will be...
Sep 24,2022
FEAD: Our humanitarian basket of food reaches the most deprived
In order to alleviate the material deprivation of the most deprived people, the "Kolajna ljubavi" association distribute...
Aug 12,2022
Searching for GODPARENTS for our student
As the new academic year began, enrollments in high schools and colleges in Tanzania began. Since tuition fees at higher...
Jul 15,2022
Start the distribution of humanitarian packages in Imotski
As part of our humanitarian project "Hand of Support" in the area of Imotski, we started distributing humanitarian bas...
Jul 06,2022
Our project"Hand of Support" on Radio Imotskii
Project manager Ivana Nikolić was a guest on the Radio Imotski show where she presented the "Hand of Support" project,...
Jun 09,2022
Dancing at 20th Festival of Equal Opportunities
We participated in this year's Festival of Equal Opportunities in Zagreb with the girls of the Tuškanac Center for Educa...
Jun 06,2022
Kolajna at Open Days of Nongovernmental Organizations
We participated in the Open Days of Nongovernmental Organizations 2022. At our promotional stand in Lovreć, we informed...
May 25,2022
Coloring for mental health
As part of our Laurentius Community Center in Lovreć, on May 24, 2022, we held a regular monthly psychological group cou...
May 19,2022
Little African Workshop
We have opened a web page where you can get authentic African souvenirs and handicrafts. From now on, you can get organi...
May 09,2022
We marked the Media Literacy Days
Media Literacy Days are held in May. On this occasion, our volunteers together with Jasmina from the association "Kolajn...
May 02,2022
Erasmus+ education in Portugal
Our Vice President Antonia Rukavina attended the training "Make the Move for Green Inclusion!" which took place from 26....
Mar 25,2022
Project "Hand of Support" for helping poor
Today we signed an agreement with the Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy for the "Hand of Supp...
Jan 12,2022
Watch Kolajna ljubavi on HRT1
Our Stjepan i Antonia were guests in TV show Positive. The activities of our association and our most important projects...
Jan 12,2022
Donation of the Elementary School Vladimir Pavlović from Čapljina
Thanks to the generous donation of the Primary School of Vladimir Pavlović from Čapljina, we built a new well. Works on...
Dec 31,2021
Panel "Fighting poverty in the Imotski Region"
We held a panel discussion with the aim of combating poverty and social exclusion. On Monday 27.12. at 15:30 in our Laur...
Dec 07,2021
Happy International Volunteer Day!
Thank you for bringing smiles and love. Thanks to all our volunteers come from our St. Anthony's Orphanage in faraway Ta...
Dec 06,2021
Volunteer event "With heart in hand"
At our Laurentius Community Center, we thanked our volunteers. On the occasion of marking the International Volunteer Da...
Nov 04,2021
BRAVO TO OUR ACTIVE CITIZENS
We distributed diplomas to the most active citizens. As part of our course "Activism and Active Citizenship", we distrib...
Oct 27,2021
Development of philanthropy in children and youth
Workshop on charity during the Philanthropy Week. We continue our awareness-raising activities about philanthropy and so...
Oct 04,2021
Completed the course within the project Laurentius Community Center
Completed the course Activism and Active Citizenship for volunteers and active citizens within the project Laurentius Co...
Oct 04,2021
Croatia is volunteering in 2021.
As part of the event Croatia Volunteers in 2021, our volunteers volunteered in Lipik at a darts tournament for the blind...
Sep 11,2021
Contract signed for a new project WWW - Wonderful Word of Women
Our Association "Kolajna ljubavi" has signed a contract with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for a new proj...
Sep 10,2021
Research on the quality of live in Imotski Krajina
Research on the quality of life and satisfaction with the social content of citizens in the area of Imotski Krajina pu...
Jun 17,2021
Exhibition in the Dugava Library
Exhibition of photographs by Božo Benić entitled "Mission in Tanzania". You can see the exhibition of photographs of our...
Mar 11,2021
We opened Community Center Laurentius
You are welcome at Community Center Laurentius in Lovreć. At the grand opening held on March 9, 2021 in Lovreć, we opene...
Feb 22,2021
Visit to the village of Strašnik
We visited the earthquake-stricken village of Strašnik and Strašničane. We visited the earthquake-stricken village of St...
Jan 29,2021
Kolajna ljubavi in the book for 3rd grade secondary school
We are happy that our Organization can be found in the school book for 3rd grade secondary school. We thank Školska knji...
Jan 21,2021
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR FEBRUARY 2021
Calendar of activities of the Social Center "Laurentius". We bring you the calendar of activities of the Laurentius Comm...
Jan 05,2021
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR JANUARY 2021
We are publishing the calendar of activities of the Laurentius Community Center for the month of January 2021. We bring...
Jan 04,2021
Help for Strašnik
We are collecting financial donations for the village of Strašnik and its inhabitants Strašničane! We a...
Dec 12,2020
Initial conference "Social center Lurentius"
We invite you to the initial conference of the Laurentius Community Center, the first social center in the Imotski regio...
Dec 11,2020
Picture book "The little winner"
A picture book about a boy living in an orphanage in Tanzania and describes everyday life in his humble but happy home....
Dec 10,2020
Calendar of activities for December 2020
We publish the news of the Laurentius Community Center. We bring you the calendar of activities of the Laurentius Commun...
Nov 27,2020
Calendar of activities for November 2020
We are publishing a calendar of activities for project The Laurentius Community Center. In the month of November, which...
Nov 23,2020
Fair-Play in Sport and Life
A new project that we are implementing with NK Coerver and the Tuškanac Center. We started the implementation of the pro...
Nov 23,2020
Laurentius Community Center
The Kolajna ljubavi association received a new project co-financed by the European Social Fund. Association "Kolajna lju...
Sep 25,2020
Kolajna ljubavi in TV show Good Morning Croatia
Our Antonia and Luka announced the event "Humanitarian work for the children of Croatia and Africa" on the HRT program...
Sep 21,2020
Together Against Poverty
We invite you to an online lecture as part of the European Week of Sustainable Development. Together Against Poverty is...
Sep 15,2020
Distributed aid packages for the elderly and infirm
In Zagreb, we organized assistance in cooperation with the Catholic Association "Kap dobrote" and the legal department o...
Sep 04,2020
Cheerful workshop with children with special needs
Children from Brezovica showed us how to be an example to others. During summer holidays and in August with the children...
Aug 06,2020
Božo Benić on volunteering in Tanzania
In the article of the Voice of the Council, read the experiences of our Božo. Read more: https://www.glas-koncila.hr/is...
Aug 06,2020
Volunteers who won the KOLAJNA DIPLOMA
13 hard-working volunteers earned a volunteer diploma. We are proud of our hard-working volunteers who regularly attende...
Aug 04,2020
Our Petra in the Glas Koncila
Read the testimony of the Friends of the Orphanage project manager. Part od the article: "She is aware of the great pov...
Aug 04,2020
Kolajna's donations help those in need throughout Croatia
With a smile, we distributed aid packages, donations in clothing and footwear, and school supplies and toys for children...
Jun 12,2020
Workshop against prejudice on two continents
We learn and share the experiences of children from Croatia and Tanzania. As part of the Young Peacemakers project, we p...
May 11,2020
Volunteering Course ONLINE
New edition of Education for volunteering. Although most of our volunteer activities are temporarily prevented, includin...
May 08,2020
Workshop on volunteering and activism
To change the world around us we need to start doing small steps ourselves. This weekend we realized a workshop "Volunte...
Apr 16,2020
Construction on the Orphanage Upgrade completed
Thank you, we would not have succeeded without your help! We successfully managed to upgrade the St. Anthony's Orphanage...
Apr 16,2020
Optimism and proactivity against the COVID-19 pandemic
How we help with simple volunteer actions, read through the story of our Melita. Melita Zivković, a proactive volunteer...
Apr 16,2020
Intercultural Workshop in the St. Anthony Orphanage
Since most of our volunteer activities have been delayed due to the virus coronas, and so are the workshops for the proj...
Apr 09,2020
Project "Young peacekeepers for a life without violence"
We are bringing to an end the three-year project to help children from alternative care in Zagreb. After conducting the...
Mar 02,2020
Nonviolent communication in COO Tuškanac <3
This weekend we celebrated the Day of Pink T-shirts at the Tuškanac Education Center.
Mar 02,2020
Nonviolent communication in COO Tuškanac <3
This weekend we celebrated the Day of Pink T-shirts at the Tuškanac Education Center. At the Tuškanac Education Center i...
Feb 27,2020
Color my world volunteer
Our volunteers are active in Croatia and Tanzania. In Croatia they volunteer in a Home for Abando-ned Children.
Feb 27,2020
Book promotion: "Stars always make me laugh
We invite you to join us on Tuesday at 7pm at promotion of the book of our volunteer Božo Benic.
Feb 27,2020
Book: "Stars always make me laugh - one (not) ordinary mission"
We invite you to join us on Tuesday at 7pm at promotion of the book of our volunteer Božo Benic. Join us for the present...
Feb 24,2020
Young Peacemakers in Brezovica
We are starting out project Young Peacemakers in Caritas¨s Home in Brezovica.
Feb 24,2020
The end of work on expanding Orphanage
We are finalizing the expanding of our Songea home.
Feb 24,2020
Young Peacemakers in Brezovica
We are starting out project Young Peacemakers in Caritas¨s Home in Brezovica. The project “Young Peacemakers for a Socie...
Feb 24,2020
The end of work on expanding Orphanage of St. Anthony
We are finalizing the expanding of our Songea home. After almost 10 years of existence Orphanage of St. Anthony has almo...
Feb 20,2020
Series of workshops “Volunteer Educaton"
Our volunteers are active in Croatia and Tanzania. In Croatia they volunteer in a Home for Abando-ned Children.
Feb 19,2020
Join us on a new volunteer course
Our volunteers are active in Croatia and Tanzania. In Croatia they volunteer in a Home for Abando-ned Children.
Dec 18,2019
Education for "Europe for citizen"
Our Elvira has participated in Education for EU programme "Europe for citizen".
Dec 10,2019
Celebration of International Volunteer Day
Our volunteers celebrated their - International Volunteer Day in the most beautiful company - with children in Houses wi...
Dec 10,2019
Presenting our NGO at Caritas's International Volunteer Day
Our President, Antonia Rukavina, presented the work of the Kolajna charity association at the big Caritas Volunteer Annu...
Dec 10,2019
Kolajna's CALENDARS!
This year too, we have prepared calendars for you with photos of the children of St. Anthony's Orphanage. We have publis...
Nov 19,2019
WE ARE STARTING TO BUILD AN ST.ANTHONY ORPHANAGE
We are starting with construction work on expanding St Anthony Orphanage in Songea. We plan to build two bedrooms, a kit...
Sep 30,2019
NEW DIPLOMAS FOR A NICE JOURNEY! :)
On Wednesday, 25th of September, we held the last lecture for the participants of the volunteer course "February-2019",...
Sep 13,2019
SERIES OF WORKSHOPS "VOLUNTEER EDUCATION" IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
As a part of our project "Young Peacemakers" this month we are organizing a series of workshops "EDUCATION FOR VOLUNTEER...
Aug 14,2019
Social self-service in Imotski successfully continues its work
On the meeting with Ivan Budalić, Major of Imotski, Ivana Marasović discussed the continuation of the Social Self-Servic...
Jun 12,2019
CHARITY GATHERING: Superheroes, Mnogi drugi and Surka for Africa
Organized by Lana Stjepanović a.k.a. Cartman (Kolajna ljubavi) Concert and Nintendo tournament for St. Anthony Orphanage...
May 21,2019
COLOR MY WORLD - VOLUNTEER!
Due to occasion "CROATIA VOLUNTEERS 2019" https://www.croatia.volontira.vcz.hr/ we invite all of our volunteers (present...
May 17,2019
Celebration of Interational Volunteer Day
We celebrated this day with children without parental care.
May 17,2019
We are starting to build St. Anthony orphanage
We are about to start with construction work on expanding St Anthony Orphanage in Tanzania.
May 17,2019
New diplomas for nice journey
Thank you, Kolajna volunteers!
May 17,2019
Education for "Europe for citizen"
Our Elvira has participated in Education for EU programme "Europe for citizen".
May 17,2019
Presenting our NGO at Caritas's International
Our Antonia has presented our work and cooperation with Caritas of Zagreb.
May 15,2019
A ROUND-TABLE discussion meeting "On the Trail of Equal Opportunities"
We are discussing the problem of education of children from the alternative care. The aim of the round table is to infor...
May 09,2019
JOIN US ON A NEW VOLUNTEER COURSE!
Are you attracted by idea of volunteering at our association and our African orphanage, and want to know more about it...
May 06,2019
Exhibition Tanzania in hearth by Božo Benić
We kindly invite you to Oris house of architecture for the opening of the exhibition 'Tanzania in hearth', 7th of May at...
Mar 26,2019
Opening of photo exhibition "Tanzania in the heart"
We invite you to visit a series of humanitarian exhibitions - to help the upgrading of the orphanage St. Ante in Tanzani...
Mar 23,2019
Our story about rebuilding an ST.ANTHONY ORPHANAGE was on IN Magazin!
Join us on Humanitarian Stand up Show "When laughter is saving lives". Story of our rebuilding an St.Anthony orphanage w...
Mar 22,2019
Humanitarian Stand up Show "When laughter is saving lives"
Join us on Humanitarian Stand up Show "When laughter is saving lives" 25th of March at 8 pm in Forum Cinema, Jarunska 2,...
Mar 21,2019
We continue to build an St. Anthony orphanage
Support expanding of our mission in ST.ANTHONY ORPHANAGE in Tanzania. Support expanding of our mission in ST.ANTHONY ORP...
Mar 08,2019
A wonderful experience of volunteering
Hi, my name is Helena and I am a member of the Charity Association “Kolajna ljubavi”. And this is my story. It all start...
Feb 12,2019
Diplomas for Volunteers
After finishing Volunteering Course with our best volunteers we celebrated DIPLOMAS!
Dec 17,2018
Our new year calendars
That time of the year is finally here! Hurry up for your Kolajna ljubavi calendar, more beautiful than ever :) All you...
Dec 16,2018
Merry Christmas
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Dec 12,2018
Celebrating our 10th birthday
We made it too our first ten, we are so proud! On Saturday, December 1, we met with our volunteers to mark the 10th anni...
Dec 01,2018
We graduated!
Our kindergartens had a graduation celebration and receive their diplomas. They are now ready for school. They danced o...
Nov 22,2018
Volunteering with children with special needs
Kolajna's volunteers are volunteering with children with special needs in Centers in Zagreb.
Nov 21,2018
Against violence in Caritas center Vugrovec
We are implementing project Young Peacemakers with children in Centre for children without parental care- House st. Fran...
Sep 21,2018
Round table about volunteering
Great response at round table "Let 's africanize and volunteer" where Josipa Živčić and Mejrema Lujinović shared their e...
Sep 14,2018
Donated football clothes
Thanks to NK Vrbovsko, we can play football like true players.
Sep 14,2018
Diplomas for volunteering!
When finishing Volunteering Course our volunteers got Volunteering Diplomas and Certificates of Competences Acquired Thr...
Sep 03,2018
Creative workshops for children in Imotski
In our project "Humanity in action" that is implemented with support of NATO, children are enjoying in creative workshop...
Sep 03,2018
Our Antonia on Dnevnik NOVE TV
Like representative od our NGO String of Love and winner of education for EU funds, our Antonia was in the best rated in...
Aug 20,2018
Cycling Marathon for helping children in need
Šime Beneti, an adventurist who is about to start a cycling marathon from Paris to Zadar (Croatia) will donate all the c...
Aug 13,2018
Travelling to do Sponsorship Project
Out volunteers are travelling so they can pay school fees for supported children in Sponsorship Project. We are currentl...
Jun 27,2018
Kolajna ljubavi celebrating independence day with the President
We recieved a special invite grom the President herself to celebrate indenpedence day togeather! We had an honor to reci...
Jun 08,2018
Shamba for Africa!
Humanitarian aciton for buying a field and tools. SHAMBA is a swahili word for farming field. In Africa shamba means a l...
Jun 08,2018
African Poetry Night at HRT!
We were a guests in Good Morning Croatia and invited people to African Poetry Night. Volunteer and iniciator of the even...
Jun 05,2018
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
With children from Center Dubrava we were modeling peace figures. With children from Center Dubrava we were modeling dov...
May 22,2018
Cheering for Hajduk!
Look how we sing for Hajduk! We are here as a support for our favourite football club Hajduk. Look how in 2 short video...
May 17,2018
Kolajna on Instagram
Follow us on Instagram as: kolajnaljubavi. Thanks to our volunteer Mejrema we are now on Instagram.
May 17,2018
Blogers Vid and Marko are helding a lecture about Thailand
Come to the lecture: Thailand from Vid`s and Marko`s perspektive that is part of humanitarian manifestation "Travel and...
Apr 25,2018
Kolajna at the Conference
Organized by the VCZ Zagreb we had a privilege to be a part of the Conference of corporative volunteering and the Fair o...
Apr 12,2018
EU funds education
Representatives of Kolajna ljubavi (String of love) participated in education from European Social Fund and social entre...
Apr 06,2018
Kolajna Ljubavi in Zadar
Join us at travel lecture Travel and do good -African Mission. Ivana Marasović and Antonia Pejaković will held a travel...
Mar 01,2018
Join us at the Humanitarian Fair for African Tummy!
Our little ones are expecting you! Our expatriates from the Center for Upbringing and Education Dubrava will resume on T...
Feb 28,2018
We held a round table Similar to diversity.
It all started with letters that came from another continent. As part of the project "Young Peacemakers of the Associati...
Feb 28,2018
Guest on Radio Delti in Metković
On Delta's Radio we represented the work of the Association, Volunteering and the Project of African Tummy Tucks! Our An...
Feb 24,2018
"African tummy" in Metković
Our president Antonia presented the project in Metković. Although project is in action for a long time, it is still not...
Feb 15,2018
The new Course for Volunteers starts!
We look forward to your arrival! NGO String of Love organizes a Volunteer Course for new volunteers of the organization...
Feb 15,2018
Round Table "Similar in Variety"
We invite you to the Round Table "Similar to Difference" where we talk about the development of solidarity among childre...
Jan 31,2018
NATO Charity Baazar
Our dearest Ivana was on the gala award for the Organizations that got the funding. On 29th of january we recieved an aw...
Jan 11,2018
African Library
Thanks to your good hearts, once again we have been able to cheer our little ones. The first picture books for the Afric...
Jan 11,2018
Our association in the HRT radio studio
We attended a radio studio of HRT where our lieutenant talked about the activities of the association. Contestant Kolajn...
Jan 05,2018
An incredible story of love from the heart of Africa
If it is true that love does not know the obstacles, these two young people have shown us. How much life can be unknown...
Dec 29,2017
Thank You for good wishes
We were suprised by these beautiful Christmas cards we have recieved. Thank you to everybody who supports our work. We w...
Dec 28,2017
Calendar 2018.
CALENDAR 2018. This year Kolajna made new calendars for 2018. year with pictures of our dear children in the orphanage....
Dec 12,2017
Kolajna ljubavi in the President''s office
Ivana and Antonia as representatives of Kolajna ljubavi were at the meeting with our President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović...
Nov 22,2017
We won support by National Foundation for Civil Society Development!
The String of Love won Institutional support from National Foundation for Civil Society Development. After several years...
Nov 21,2017
Glas Koncila!
Read how our founder Ivana represents our work and her experience. You can find the article at: https://www.glas-koncila...
Sep 28,2017
Supply me with school - give me the world!
Searching for new benefectors that will provide school sponsorschip and change the faith of an african child.
Sep 22,2017
"African tummies" in Prečko Elementary school
Fourth graders from Prečko Elementary school are the first to join the project and had a chance to listen about lives of...
Sep 20,2017
Our volunteer Janja in Nova TV show - IN MAGAZIN
Janja, our hard-working volunteer who has already been to the orphanage of St. Ante twice, she was a guest on the Nova T...