Posts by Franck Semczak

Some 140 children will be touched by the efforts of Aspen’s team in Guatemala in September 2014. The Fundación esperanza de vida (The Hope of Life Foundation) works in Zacapa, a city in eastern Guatemala, and strives to decrease the prevalence of malnutrition among children while also assisting with adoption opportunities for those little ones Read More

Donations of clothing, food, educational aids and hygiene products have been collected by the employees and their families from Aspen Costa Rica and these will be gifted to the Fundación Obras del Espiritu Santo during September 2014. This welfare institution runs a number of outreach programes aimed at communities living in socially vulnerable conditions within Read More

As Mandela Day is customarily hosted in the middle of the European summer when many employees take their annual vacation, Aspen’s French-based team in Notre Dame de Bondeville (NDB) chose to participate in a range of different activities during the last quarter of 2014. The selected organisations that Aspen NDB are planning to work alongside Read More

(opens in new tab) Pielgrzymowice Robert Domański and Agnieszka Ujazdowska The Sister’s Association Jadwiga in Pielgrzymowice is home to about 20 abandoned, homeless children who are physically handicapped. The home offers them shelter, education, occupational therapy and a safe social environment with the necessary care that they need to flourish despite their circumstances. Five volunteers Read More

Multiple projects benefit thousands Vincent Philibert As in previous years, Aspen Notre Dame de Bondeville’s (Aspen NDB), French-based team have chosen to engage in numerous Mandela Day projects over an extended period. Some of these activities are influenced by the summer vacation or seasons of the year, yet this has not placed a damper on Read More

Educating Mythri’s children Ramesh Cheruvu Aspen India / Alphamed’s 395 employees have once again elected to support Hyderabad’s Mythri Orphanage which is home to some 75 children. The generosity of donations provided by our employees will ensure that the children receive monthly groceries for a year. In addition to this, annual school fees have been Read More

Helping to relieve hunger in Tanzania Robert Bahmann Aspen’s team of 11, located in Des Plaines, Illinois participated by filling meals for the Feed My Starving Children programme – https://www.fmsc.org/ Their contribution of 82 packed boxes of nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, translates to 17,712 meals which will feed 48 children for Read More

Warm, soulful care Claire Eldred On a snowy January day that turned out to be the coldest day of the British winter, the Aspen UK team took over the kitchens of a London-based homeless project to provide a hot, three-course meal for nearly 70 people. The team chose the C4WS* Homeless Project because they wanted Read More

Touching lives with kindness Patrice Thornton Aspen Ireland’s employees took part in two events in support of Mandela Day 2017. In early July, 13 employees traveled to Epilepsy Ireland near our Citywest offices. We spent the day painting walls, ceilings, skirting and doors and were delighted to help out such a fantastic charity. Later in Read More

Smiling with the children Demetra Roka On 18 July 2017, the South African Embassy, joined by Aspen Greece, devoted  Mandela Day to “The Smile of the Child”, a non-profit Greek organisation that supports children and their families in need regardless of ethnicity and/or religion. “The Smile of the Child” provides care and love in a Read More