History

In 2008, Ferdi van den Bergh spent four months with his wife and 16-month-old daughter in Jinja (Uganda). They volunteered in several street children projects, and continued shaping their own sponsorship program called ‘1moreChild’.
Trying to spend quality time with his daughter, Ferdi realized there were no play spaces (parks and/or playgrounds) to go to -- at all! Having previously worked eight years as a children and youth worker for an urban charity in Brooklyn, New York, Ferdi knew the importance of play for the development of a child. Every child should have access to places for play and fun. He came to the conclusion that if his daughter needed a place to play, certainly all the other children needed this kind of place, too – right there in Uganda!

 The Tjeko Fun Village idea was born.

 Knowing that Uganda has a high population of children, but finding no places for them to be children convinced him to do something. Ferdi van den Bergh set out to mobilize individuals and corporations to help build access for all children to be able to go to venues of fun. Venues where a child can enjoy it’s Childhood. Tjeko Fun Village is to be a social, for profit fun park that will bring a little bit of TJEKO to every child that needs some. Every child!