AIDA Cruise & Help funds 60th school in Africa

AIDA Cruise & Help continues to improve educational opportunities in the world’s poorest regions as it extends assistance to a 60th school, this time in Africa.

AIDA Cruises president Felix Eichhorn himself came to the Okanguati Primary School in Namibia to see the facility’s importance to the local population.

Together with Reiner Meutsch, founder of the FLY & HELP Foundation and long-standing partner of AIDA Cruises, he visited the community and spoke with teachers and children on site. 

Eichhorn said of the school: “The curiosity and cheerfulness of the children from the Kaokoveld in Okanguati is precisely why AIDA Cruise & Help is collecting donations and building schools. We are very pleased that our initiative has already provided countless children in disadvantaged regions of the world with a permanent place in school. In this way, we are providing children and future generations with access to an education and thus with a real chance for a better future. The impressive commitment of our crew and our guests shows that we can achieve great things together.”

Funding for learning 

AIDA Cruises opened its first school in Cebu City, Philippines back in 2019, and construction of the facility was funded entirely by donations from AIDA Cruise & Help. 

Since then, numerous other schools in twelve countries have been added to the cruise line’s roster of beneficiaries.

With the funding of its 60th school, the AIDA Cruise & Help initiative celebrates another important success. 

All 60 projects, with a total capacity of around 7,000 sustainable school places, are in the implementation phase, with 40 schools having already commenced classes.