Manon Fleury, who used to be nicknamed the “Wayne Gretzky of sales”, was the youngest real estate agent in 1985. She had become in 1990 the youngest real estate agent in Quebec to manage her own office with over 25 agents. She pursued her career in the financing industry and established a Sales Coaching company in 2000. Her philosophy is simple: she feels that “To whom much is given, much is expected”. This leads her to volunteer her time to different charitable organizations such as La Maison du Père (a shelter for the homeless) and La Maison Victor Gadbois (for terminally ill patients).

In 2005, she decides to make one of her dreams come true and goes to work as a volunteer in an African orphanage. This deeply moving experience completely changed her life.

Out of this experience the Karibu Foundation was created in order to provide aid to impoverished children in Tanzania. In March 2009, the first Rescue Center for domestically beaten/abused/tortured children officially opens in Tanzania.

As so it is that this sales entrepreneur, business owner and psychology graduate gives up her career, her home, and leaves her friends and family to become a missionary and humanitarian worker in Africa.

Since 2007 and over the next nine years, Manon Fleury will be leading a mission in the city of Mwanza in Tanzania, working to end violence against children by operating a Rescue Center designed to become self-sufficient. Because it’s important to address the source of the problems related to domestic violence, the Center will also offer psychological and economic assistance to the parents/caretakers of the children who are admitted to the Center. Manon’s primary concern today is to contribute to making this world a better one for the children who have no voice. She is doing the fieldwork, but you are the ones who have the power to contribute to the realization of this enormous task by giving generously, regardless of the amount. It took only one person with a big dream to make a huge difference for the children of Mwanza, with limited resources in a very short period of time. Imagine what is possible if you support her efforts!