We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year and share the good news we have received from Kenya: Six of our MCC children have completed junior secondary school with such good grades that they have gained admission to the most prestigious national schools for senior secondary …
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a peaceful and joyful New Year
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you very much for your interest and support! It is only through your generous donations that we are able to provide the children at the Maisha Mazuri Children Center (MCC) and the Academy of Maisha …
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Outing of the trust, 11th annual general meeting and the 78th active members’ meeting
On the last weekend in September, members of Hand in Hand für Kenia e.V. gathered in Lower Bavaria. In addition to the annual general meeting, the 78th active members’ meeting took place and we celebrated the association’s 20th anniversary and a new board member, Christoph Schaller! We met in beautiful weather at the lovely Gensleiten …
77th meeting of the trust and summer party
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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Autumn’s spring. An autumn full of spring.
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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Independence through solar power – we need your support
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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Summary 76th meeting of the active members May 2025
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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We invite you to our charity event on 16.11.2024
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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1909 laps for the Maisha Mazuri Children Centre in Kenya
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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Maisha Mazuri director Jimmy Kilonzi visiting the German trust
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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