Ever since the beginning of college, I had a desire to volunteer in Africa. Through researching organizations and learning about their work, I decided on the organization Kolajna Ljubavi (Chain of Love). I started attending a volunteer training course and preparing for the long journey. And so, just ten days after defending my final thesis, the day of my journey to Africa arrived. After a three-day-long, exhausting trip along the unfamiliar roads of Tanzania, I arrived at St. An...

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,...