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CrossFit community has a big heart

    Christmastime is the time of giving. But this is true only if you have a big heart! CrossFit Wuppertal in Wuppertal, Germany has just proven that they have a big, big heart. A few days before Christmas they started foundraising for Maria Cristina Foundation. The target was to collect as much as possible in order

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    New project: Running shoes for athletes in need

      We are currently working on a very nice project, mostly done by Sofija. As Saucony GCC decided to donate athletic running shoes, means spikes, to runners in need she is organizing the delivery to the athletic club “AK Sarajevo” in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In total there were 82 pairs of spikes donated by Saucony. 23 pairs

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      Maria Cristina Foundation Award

        We are so happy and proud that we got an award from the Maria Cristina Foundation. We got the award as a Family, for our activities for and with the Maria Cristina Foundation and its members. But our daughter Mara got one additionally, for herself. I like this a lot and I am proud of

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        If somebody may ask how our trip to Dhaka was

          We are sitting in the plane and talking about out trip to Dhaka. We are trying to summarize the experiences and to somehow put them into a few words, for this blog. But it’s very difficult to do that. There were so many different small things and small surprises that caused so many different feelings.

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          Workshops

            Sometimes little things can make you happy for a quite long time. One child we support, Zakia, seem very sad yesterday. After some discussions she opened up and told us with tears that her mother want to cut her hair. But she loves her hair a lot and she didn’t want it to be cut.

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            Trip to Kaskura Nodi

              Our plan for today was to continue the distribution of the presents and rewards. We started in the morning, but unfortunately, due to the Eid Holidays, we were not able to distribute everything today. So Jewel, who is managing everything in Dhaka for the Maria Cristina Foundation, will continue the distribution as soon as the

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              Eid Mubarak

                Today is Eid and the whole city is very festive. People are spending time with families and friends. And even if you are in the city for the first time, you will not feel like you are foreign. So many people invited us to visit them for lunch, snacks or dinner. And we wished we

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                The saddest boy ever

                  I didn’t expect to be woken by the sounds of rickshaw bells, goats and birds. But our first morning in Dhaka started exactly like that. We couldn’t wait to see the city and to get a first impression we went for a walk, before breakfast. Our first impressions of the city were: colorful, loud, a

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                  Travelling to Dhaka

                    As we started helping the Maria Cristina Foundation (MCF), we knew that we would visit Dhaka in the near future. We wanted to visit the children that we are supporting and we wanted to meet all other children supported by the MCF. It was also very clear for us that we could make much more

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                    Dhaka second try

                      Due to security reason we had to postpone our trip to Dhaka. Originally, we were planning to travel there about two months ago, but as several terrible incidents happened in Dhaka, we decided to postpone our trip to 11th of September. And now, just few days before the trip, our schedule looks fine. Presents to

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