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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 …
New face: Anne-Kristin Henker joins the DfA team as project manager Read More »
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 …
The Educational Fund: From DfA Godchildren to Godparents Read More »
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 …
Mother of children without parents: A nun follows her vocation Read More »
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 …
Pregnant at 15: Dire consequences for thousands of young women Read More »
“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, …
Old and often blind: grandmothers care for orphans Read More »