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On International Women’s Day 2026, the focus is on equality and self-determination for women worldwide. In Nyabondo, Kenya, this is exactly what is happening: the meeting room of the St. Monica Village widows’ cooperative is filled with young mothers – most of them between the ages of 15 and 18 – and their babies. Some […]
Under large trees in front of Asumbi Mission Hospital, they stand in a circle around a huge cake: 50 Community Health Champions, the coordination team and representatives of the Ministry of Health. It is January 2026 – exactly one year after the project started. Dr Isa Rait is back on site.
Singing, dancing, hugging – and in the middle of it all, women clutching their vouchers tightly. For the widows of the St. Monica Village cooperative in Nyabondo, the distribution of the prizes from the Dentists for Africa Christmas raffle is a very special moment every year.
Singing, dancing, people in traditional clothing, dignitaries: on the morning of November 26, 2025, a colorful parade accompanied by drums and various groups of revelers made its way across the festival grounds of Nyabondo and through Nyabondo. Under the organizational leadership of Sr. Seraphine, head of the Kenyan office of DfA, the Kenyan teams had […]
Edwin is one of over 1,200 children whom Dentists for Africa has supported through its sponsorship program. Our staff member in the Kenyan sponsorship office tells his story.
In the last part of the moving report series, DFA project manager Katharina Weiland-Zejewski reports on the impressive Easter raffle.
Part 4 of the report by Katharina Weiland-Zejewski: How teen mothers get knowledge and practical support and children learn to brush their teeth.
In April, Katharina Weiland-Zejewski, honorary director of the widow project, Anne-Kristin Henker, program manager and Nicholas Koech, former godchild, today traveled to the board of Dentists for Africa (DFA), together with their families to Kenya.
In April, Katharina Weiland-Zejewski, honorary director of the widow project, Anne-Kristin Henker, program manager and Nicholas Koech, former godchild, today traveled to the board of Dentists for Africa (DFA), together with their families to Kenya.
In April, Katharina Weiland-Zejewski, honorary director of the widow project, Anne-Kristin Henker, program manager and Nicholas Koech, former godchild, today traveled to the board of Dentists for Africa (DFA), together with their families to Kenya.
How young people from the Dentists for Africa sponsorship program in Kenya are learning to help shape their community through a community charity walk—with heart, attitude, and energy.
"The decisions you make today will determine your future. Seize the opportunities that come your way." With these motivating words, Dr. Novestus Kosgei, a former sponsored child and now a doctor, addressed the 26 students in the graduating class….
March 20 is World Oral Health Day—an international day of action that focuses on the importance of oral health. While regular visits to the dentist are a matter of course in Germany, the reality in rural areas of Kenya is very different….
January 2025: The assembly hall in the Nyabondo widow village is filled with emotion as around 500 widows of all ages gather to learn about land rights and assert their rights. The approximately three-hour seminar…
The sun is high in the sky, dust swirls under the feet of the women who have gathered in the sweltering heat in St. Monica Village. Once again, they have put on their finest clothes, because…
On December 1, St. Monica Village in Nyabondo, Kenya, was ablaze with color during a festive community celebration: around 900 widows came together …
The Dentists for Africa 2025 annual calendar brings together impressive images and moving stories from our projects in Kenya. Under the motto "Shaping the future together"….
Personal encounters, motivated guests, and inspiring discussions: around 80 members, active participants, supporters, and long-standing companions attended the anniversary meeting of Dentists for Africa from October 11 to 13…
Getting to know their sponsored child and his home country – that was the goal of the 16-member travel group that Christine Bitsch and Dr. Isa Rait led to Kenya in August 2024. The long-time DfA activists had already prepared the trip last year. After 20016 and 2018, this was now the third sponsorship trip …
Our previous project manager Clara Wiest recently left Dentists for Africa due to relocation. We would like to thank her once more for her dedicated work and send her our best wishes for the future. On 1 July 2023, Anne-Kristin Henker joined the DfA Team as her successor and we are happy to introduce her […]
The “Educational Fund” of the Dentists for Africa sponsorship project ensures that the organization’s goals of “sustainability” and “helping people to help themselves” become a reality: Through it, former DfA godchildren can become godparents themselves. The idea corresponds to the basic idea of many Kenyans that they want to give something back when something has […]
What an exciting year 2022 was! We have summarized everything important in our annual report for 2022. Here, we give you a short overview. For the dental project, the start of the cooperation with German Doctors was particularly important. Within the framework of the cooperation, DfA can make a great contribution to oral health education […]
Fidel is only five years old and has experienced more suffering than others in a lifetime. His father took his own life after his HIV/AIDS diagnosis when Fidel was only six months old. In desperation, his mother, who had also become infected, placed the baby in a bush and hung herself in a tree. A […]
They affectionately call her “our mother.” Sister Seraphine has been leading the DfA sponsorship project for over 14 years and, together with her team, currently cares for 462 orphans. The 47-year-old nun knows all the children personally ever since they were accepted into the project at the age of about four to seven years. The […]
Today, Winnie wishes everything had turned out very differently. “Without the care of parents, especially a mother, and without social education and openness, I was easily influenced as a 15-year-old. I got pregnant at an early age. There was a lot of peer pressure in my circle of friends. To belong, you had to have […]
“Dani!” (“grandma” in the local language, Luo) crows little James as he grabs his grandmother’s hand. She feels for his head and puts her hand on his small shoulder, her gaze bound forward. 75-year-old Leonida is blind. She is sitting in an armchair in her small clay hut in Kibuon, a village in Kisumu County, […]