On July 12, 2025, the annual summer party took place in glorious weather in Herrsching near Walks, and before the fun part, the active members sat down together for the 77th club meeting – in the shade and with coffee and cake. Barbara Krohne reported on the latest developments in Kenya, also with regard to …
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Barbara Hansen’s novel “Autumn’s spring” was literally published just in time for the 20th anniversary of our trust Hand in Hand für Kenia e.V. An Autumn Full of Spring – a wonderful novel that takes the readers into the everyday life of a children’s home in Kenya and the cultural, social and, not least, very …
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The sun shines generously over Maisha Mazuri – and we are already using its power to provide light, water and clean drinking water. But our goal is even bigger: we want to make the Children Center and the Academy completely independent of the unreliable Kenyan power supply. Power cuts are part of everyday life. Especially …
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The 76th meeting of the active members of Hand in Hand for Kenya e.V. took place on May 1, 2025 in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt – and we had visitors from Kenya! The deputy principal of the Academy of Maisha Mazuri (AMM), Ariette, and Joseph, project manager and social worker at MCC, were in Germany …
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from 7.00 pm, at the Krippnerhaus in Edling (Raiffeisenstr. 13, 83533). Noah Hansen (also known as _quinoah.k on Insta since March) and his Eritrean chef colleague Tedros Serke will spoil you with culinary delights from African cuisine and Sabine Strobl and her Edlingen children’s choir will amaze your eyes and ears with African dances and …
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That’s what 137 pupils from Gaimersheim Gymnasium achieved on 11 July 2024 at the 10th traditional charity run, raising an impressive total of almost 6,000 euros. The distance they covered together in one hour is as long as the distance between Munich and Flensburg, i.e. once across Germany! The symbolic donation cheque of almost 6,000 …
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A country-to-country exchange with our Kenyan team over the last few years has proven to be very valuable for both sides. That’s why this year it was our director who we were able to welcome back to Munich after five years. The summer temperatures that awaited him at the beginning of April may have contributed …
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On October 21st, 2023, our circle of activists met, as well as some members of the association, who accepted the invitation to the subsequent regular annual general meeting. Since the agenda was again very packed, we started directly with the Academy of Maisha Mazuri & Boarding School and urgent topics such as improving grades, exchange …
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It was time again for a trip to Kenya. And so we (Barbara Krohne and Helen Milkau) set out on March 30th until April 7th back on the already familiar route to Kenya to the Maisha Mazuri Children Centre. We thought we’d bring the rain with us this time, too, but as it turned out, it …
Finally an african feeling again in the pedestrian zone of Ingolstadt and around the Paradeplatz. The Afrikafest in Ingolstadt took place again on the first weekend in July after a break of two years. Hand in Hand for Kenya was represented with a bazaar and tombola stand and after a somewhat long morning with only …
