Fort Worth Sister Cities

Mbabane, Swaziland- Signed 2004

Mbabane, Swaziland, Fort Worth’s newest Sister City was chosen through an innovative process. Fort Worth Sister Cities first assembled a committee which looked at the southern portions of the African continent as a whole, and then narrowed the search to a few key cities. The committee decided to send one team to Pretoria, and Mbabane, and another to Buffalo City and Capetown. While in their assigned cities, the teams met with city officials, toured the land, researched local attractions, and learned first-hand about the prospective cities. Once home, they created presentations from their research and presented each city before the board and membership of Fort Worth Sister Cities International. From these presentations, the board voted unanimously to recommend the city of Mbabane, Swaziland to the City of Fort Worth.

Mbabane Wheelchair Project

Fort Worth Sister Cities raised the funds to deliver 240 wheelchairs to Mbabane, Swaziland in 2005. Children and adults with disabilities who were not able to afford wheelchairs will now have access to one.
Sister Cities International and the Wheelchair foundation have partnered and embarked on a five-year initiative to deliver wheelchairs to adults and children with disabilities throughout our sister city communities. The wheelchair foundation has committed a total of 4.5 million in matching funds to be combined with funds raised by sister cities chapters to send wheelchairs to sister cities communities throughout the world.

City Update May 2008

Join us for a tour to the Samaritan House where we will plan for 2008-2009. We will be discussing our 5th anniversary with Mbabane so please bring ideas to commemorate this special occasion. We will also get updates on the Texas Wesleyan University Global Scholars traveling to Mbabane, May 19-21 and the GAP/TCU group traveling there June 15-27.

Click here to contact Program Manager, Josh Cauthen.

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Click here for the Mbabane City Website http://www.mbabane.org.sz/welcome.html

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