(Dear reader, this story is linked to the main story, please see HERE)

Dear beloved community,



it’s hard to grasp… time is running so fast, project is active more than ever and you, our beloved community are still firing our actions with your donations and lovely words. AND THIS ALREADY FOR ONE FULL YEAR!!



You’re right! Our cryptocurrency based aid project becomes 1 year of a great success.

Let’s have a short look into the past and remember, how things escalated so quickly :-)

On 08.20.2019 I met Simón from Caracas/Venezuela in Discord. A young, funny and ambitious man. At this point a total stranger to me. We started talking ,and I was presenting him my idea of sending him funds via NANO. My idea was just to find a person I can trust and who needs help, to cope with daily situations in Venezuela. At this time I didn’t know much about Venezuela and didn’t know much about hyperinflation, but I knew, that bad things happens there and that the other parts of the world can’t look away! Especially the “rich” European countries and North America. I was keen in finding a family I could support with some money every now and then. Of course by sending funds with the help of a completely new technology — Cryptocurrency with NANO (and later BANANO) as a cross boarder payment system. Just a thing between Simón and me — no greedy intermediary (cross boarder payment services with high fees), no government who could dislike our interactions and no other hurdle as well. All of this shipped smoothly around the world in no time by using crypto without “loosing” any funds the way from my pocket to Simón’s.

Very soon Simón and me became friends, and we were excited discovering the abilities this technology brought mankind. From this day on our friendship was forming and as well a big idea — starting the project “Adopt a Family” as a showcase for the rest of the world, that you don’t need to know each other in person, you don’t have to speak the other’s language, don’t have to know deep details about cryptocurrencies and further no other excuses are valid NOT TO help other people in financially shaken times. All you need is a good heart and a companion I found in Simón ❤

A short view back in the past with great memories. Later on the project was forming step by step, setting up wallets, talking with people in discord about our idea, start writing first articles and then our first distributions in the streets of Caracas. A very big step was then adopting a second family and gaining an everyday growing community. After the second family a third came. We were growing and learning as well (still to this present day). First families left us due to given self-imposed rules and new were coming. We adopted Lilo and Sebas who after this became more than “just” an adopted family, they came to stay and becoming a big part of this project. Helping us first with distributions and now even doing everything around (finding places, logistics, cooking, distribution and many things more).

I can say, for me this project turned out to become one of the best things I’ve ever experienced and I gained so much value out of this. Beside finding a great friend in Simón, meeting such lovely and dedicated people (Lilo and Sebas) and seeing a community of totally strangers who supported us for one year for now, I gained value in seeing people helping each other, experiencing that “the good in persons” is still present these days and that the pure will of helping can build such a great foundation which creates real world value for a lot of people. Creating hope and strengthening the ability in people to help themselves. I’m proud to be a part in “Adopt a Family”, I’m proud to be part of the amazing community in BANANO and NANO and I’m proud of all the trust you guys giving us. Thank you all very much for giving us the chances to help people and thank you all very much to be part of this.

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Hopefully you are still reading.. and did’t fall asleep after all the warm words. Then now, the (maybe) more interesting part is about to start.

The birthday distributions!

We decided to make a blast this first birthday. Four distributions in a row. Yes, 4. All of them slightly different, interesting and fruitful. All of them in one big orphanage, luckily our Lilo found and made contact to the event manager. The first is with 12 teenagers (boys), the second with 16 teenagers (girls), the third with 55 children and the last with 40 babies. So in total the birthday distribution fed 123 kids.

But first, as always, we have to prepare the ingredients. Sebas, Lilo and Zuylin went shopping and made some pics for us to get a glimpse, what faces hyperinflation shows in terms of doing groceries.