Tag der offenen Tür
Danke für einen wunderbaren Tag! Am 3. Oktober 2026 haben wir unseren Tag der offenen Tür gefeiert, bei fantastischem Wetter …
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2026
Praise
Praise is Fridah’s son, a determined and hardworking boy whose dedication to his studies has paid off. He recently completed …
Ristus’s Journey of Hope
Ristus came into this world carrying a burden no child should ever have to bear. He was born without an …
Christmas Outreach Report
Christmas is a season of love, sharing and bringing joy to the needy. With this spirit in my mind, I …
2025
Merry Christmas 2025
Its that time of the year once again when we pause to sincerely appreciate the HFN Donors and Members for …
Mitgliederversammlung 2025
Am 14. Juni 2025 gab es auf unserer Mitgliederversammlung wieder einen spannenden Austausch über unsere Projektarbeit.
Martin and Praise
Martin’s uniforms were worn out and over the weekend I took him market and got him a new set of …
Spendentrichter
Im Mai und Juni 2025 steht ein Hilfe für Nyeri e.V. Spendentrichter im RheinCenter Köln-Weiden. Aachener Straße 1253, 50858 Köln.
Easter wishes
We are wishing all the HFN Donors and Members a happy and a blessed Easter. Thank you so much for …
Dirk Stein vor Ort – Fußballspiel Mädchen gegen Jungs
Wie auch im Dezember 2022 zuvor bin ich wieder nach Nyeri gereist. Geplant war ein Besuch im Majengo Slum, am 24.12.2024. …
2024
Christmas shopping 2024
We are sending the warmest holiday wishes to all the HFN Donors and Members. You always make Christmas meaningful and …
Katerina, Victory, Martin
Katerina is settling in well. Her school bag and track suit were worn out so I got her new ones …
Mary Wairimu’s Tribute
Mary Wairimu was one of the HFN’s beneficiaries for more than 10 years. All her children died and since then …
New Project 2024 – Victory
This is Victory Muthuri, he is Fridah’s son. He did his final exam for primary school education in November and …
New Project 2024 – George
This George, he is Mary Wairimu’s grandchild. He is the one who takes care of his grandmother. He does casual …
Christmas shopping 2023
I did the Christmas shopping for the families and made the deliveries to their homes. The economy in Kenya is really …
2023
THE SANITARY TOWEL PROJECT
I have always wanted to do this project but I didn’t know where to start or how to go about …
Unfortunately, Wanja Migwi passed away
Wanja Migwi’s Tribute Wanja Migwi was one of the people HFN started to support. She had lost three of her …
Fotball project
We received some donations during Christmas for the football project. When Dirk came to Kenya we had to come up …
2022
Shopping
All is well in Kenya although we have fuel shortages. Motorists have to queue for hours for Fuel. The shortage …
New footballs
The kids closed school and I got a chance to take them to town and bought them some new footballs. …
Besuch in Kenia
Hallo Zusammen, ich möchte Euch mal eine kleine Rückmeldung von unserem Kenia – Urlaub geben. Am Ende wurden es anstatt …
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Ours is great just a little bit different because it’s raining a lot now. I also did some Christmas shopping …
2021
HFN football team
We are doing great. I did a project with a few HFN boys on how to make football using papers. It …
Murage
Jambo, Murage is Catherine Wanjiru’s son. He is in grade five and he is very creative. He has been collecting …
Mary Wairimu and Wandia
We are doing great still keeping safe. I visited a few families early this week and delivered their monthly food …
Shopping for Martin
Work had started going back to normal due to the reducing number of covid cases but now it’s just sad …
2020
Mitgliederversammlung 2019
Am 15. November 2019 fand die Mitgliederversammlung unseres Vereins statt. Vielen Dank an alle Teilnehmer.
Neue Matratzen für die Kinder im You.Rep Heim
November 2019: Dank einer sehr großzügigen Spende des Vereins Elfen helfen e.V. www.elfen-helfen.net aus Troisdorf konnten wir für die Kinder …
22 Kinder erhielten eine neue Schulausrüstung
22 Kinder erhielten neue Schuluniformen, Schuhe und Schultaschen. Die Kinder waren wahnsinnig aufgeregt und feierten die Übergabe der Schulsachen wie …
Catherine
Catherine ist die Grossmutter von 2 Jungen, Samuel (geb 2006) und Lawrence (2008). Die Mutter der Kinder ist mental krank …
Mary Wairimu
Dies ist Mary Wairimu und ihre Enkelkinder Davis, Kimondo und Agosi. Ausserdem hat die Grossmutter weitere fünf Enkelkinder, die nicht …
Zuerst aufgenommene Kinder: Die 4 Karatina Kids
Eigentlich ein Herzstück von Dirks Projekt für Straßenkinder in Nyeri-Karatina. Für HfN e.V. sind die Karatina Kids ein „Projekt” mit …
Kangori Familie
Die Kangori Familie besteht aus einem Vater sehr fortgeschrittenen Alters und einer mental angeschlagenen jungen Mutter und 7 Kindern. Alle …
Julia 17 Jahre mit ihrem Kind (2) den Geschwistern (5 und 12) und Julias Mutter Nancy
Diese Familie lebt in besonders großer Armut. Julia wurde vor einigen Jahren Opfer eines Verbrechens und konnte in Folge dessen …
Kevin 8 Jahre und seine Mutter Mary Ann
Kevin ging lange nicht zur Schule. Seine Mutter leidet an einer Körperbehinderung, so dass ein großer Teil des Haushaltes von …
Ann Wachuka 8 Jahre, Ami Murugi 4 Jahre and Sharon Wanja 9 Jahre
Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern leben sie nun bei ihrer Großmutter, die als Gelegenheitsarbeiterin etwa 1 Euro/Tag für sich und …
Ben
Der 1997 geb. Junge lebt bei seiner Tante, nachdem seine Mutter vor einigen Jahren an Aids starb. Bens Mutter weigerte …
Zainab
Zainab war schon im Endstadium und vertrug die Medikamente nicht. Leider erfuhr man erst viel zu spät von ihr, so …
Ristus
Ristus wurde 2005 ohne Darmkanal und Darmausgang geboren und mußte sich deshalb schon vier Operationen unterziehen. Es wurden in Nairobi …
Jospehine
Josephine ist die Mutter von fünf Kindern. Die älteste Tochter (nicht auf dem Foto) ist 15 Jahre jung und verliess …
Die Zwillinge, Samuel und Frederik
Die Zwillinge, Samuel und Frederik, wurden nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter ins Karatina Kinderheim überwiesen. Die Zwillinge haben nur noch …
Editta Mugure
Editta Mugure, Jahrgang 1972, ist alleinerziehende Mutter von 4 Kindern: Teresa Wandia geb. 1999, Mercy Gathoni geb 2000 und in …
Esther Nanyiro
Esther Nanyiro wurde blind geboren. Sie hat 4 Kinder: Paul Nang’ore, geb. 2002, Samuel Ning’iru, geb. 2003, Agnes Lokote, geb. …
Wanja Migwi
Wanja ist eine alte Dame, die Großmutter von drei Enkeln ist um die sie sich gekümmert. Die Eltern der Kinder …
Wandia
Verkauf von Holzkohle Wandia ist alleinerziehende Mutter von drei Kindern, aber zwei ihrer Kinder sind bereits mit der Schule fertig …
Sharon Mukiri
Sie ist ein siebenjähriges Mädchen, das von ihren Eltern verlassen wurden. Die Nachbarn kümmerten sich eine Weile um sie und …
Maryann and Kevin
Maryann ist alleinerziehende Mutter von Kevin. Maryann ist behindert und hat HIV / AIDS. Sie arbeitet als Sekretärin am Mt. …
Mary Wairimu
Mary Wairimu ist eine sehr alte Dame mit vier Enkelkindern. Sie lebte früher von der Landwirtschaft und konnte sich damit …
Martin Mugendi
Er ist ein fünfjähriger Junge, der mit seiner geisteskranken Mutter auf der Straße lebte. Passanten nahmen ihn von seiner Mutter …
Mark Mwangi
Mark ist ein siebenjähriger Straßenjunge, der zu den Kindern von Hope und Home gebracht wurde. Wir unterstützen ihn monatlich mit …
Josephine
Lebensmittel auf dem Markt verkaufen Josephine ist eine alleinerziehende Mutter von vier Kindern und hat immer hart gearbeitet um für …
Esther Nanyiro
Sie ist eine blinde Mutter von fünf Kindern. Zwei ihrer Töchter haben geheiratet und jetzt hat sie drei Kinder unter …
Editta Mugure
Sie ist alleinerziehende Mutter von vier Mädchen, allerdings sind zwei davon bereits verheiratet. Die jüngeren Mädchen sind 13 und 15 …
Catherine Wanjiru
Straßenverkauf von Second-Hand-Kleidung Catherine lebt mit ihrer psychisch kranken Schwester zusammen und hat drei Kinder. Sie ist diejenige, die sich …
Sharon and Mark
I had a meeting last week with Fridah from the YOU.REP Home. She told me that she had a meeting …
Christmas photos
We are doing great. I finished the Christmas shopping and delivered them to the families though some of them have traveled …
2019
New mattresses
The mattress project is done. I bought sixteen mattresses for each kid then later delivered them at the Home and there were only …
Environmental protection project
I have been looking for a place where we could plant trees and so I visited the YOU.REP home, talked …
Holiday
We are doing great, schools were on holiday for three weeks but now they re opened this week.
Agriculture Society of Kenya
On Saturday (25.05.2019) I took the kids to the Agriculture Society of Kenya show where farmers get to display their …
Fridah – bigger flat
Fridah took long to get a bigger flat because she wanted to get a house that was just near her …
The kids at You.Rep home
On Sunday (03.03.2019) there was an event at the You.Rep home where by people were invited to come visit the …
2018
Merry Christmas
Am done with Christmas shopping. Thank you so much for your support. We wish you and the HFN donors a …
Hope and Home – Christmas 2018
I am doing great and still busy doing Christmas shopping for everyone we support. The Hope and Home Children’s home …
Christmas Shopping
We are doing great and I have already started doing some Christmas shopping for the families.
Barber Shop
The barber shop is eventually done. It took longer because George was away. He does constructions jobs from time to …
Martin
Yesterday (17.11.2018) Martin was unwell and we took to the hospital the doctor run some tests in him and he …
New gloves for Mary Wairimu
Yesterday (06.11.2018) I went to Nyeri and bought Mary Wairimu a new pillow, gloves and some socks to keep her …
Fridah
Fridah is the lady who took Martin in. She is a teacher by profession but at the moment she is …
Frank’s visit
Frank’s visit went well and we managed to visit all the families including the Karatina Children’s home. When we got …
Martin
On Wednesday (25.06.2018) I made some calls to do a follow up on Martin and was lucky to get a …
Karatina and Hope and Home kids
Last week also did some monthly shopping for the families also went to Karatina to visit the kids and found …
Shopping for the three kids of hope and home
Kenya is doing great and it’s still raining heavily. I bought some shopping for the three kids of hope and …
The new kids
The new kids (Hope and Home) in our program: Martin Mugendi He is four years and was living in the …
Mark
I went to Hope and Home to consult with the mother in charge. I discussed with her and she told …
The shop
We are doing great though it’s really hot and dusty here. I finished the second last sustainability project and it …
Next sustainability project
The next sustainability project is for Mary Wairimu who wanted to build a small shop at her home and sell …
2017
Christmas presents for the kids
The past few days I have been doing some Christmas shopping for the Karatina kids and for the Hope and …
Hope Kindergarten kids – Football
Yesterday I visited the Hope and Hope Kindergarten kids.It was their closing day and they were really happy running around …
Karatina kids shopping
Last week the Karatina kids were on midterm and so I went to the Children’s home picked them and took …
Kevin’s Birthday
On Tuesday the 4th was Kevin’s birthday but since it was a school day I decided to take his birthday …
Hope and Home Kindergarten kids
On Wednesday I went shopping for uniforms and school shoes for the Hope and Home Kindergarten kids, couldn’t take them …
Mary Ann’s Birthday
On Friday I went to Nyeri and I bought a birthday gift for Mary Ann, then later I took it …
Hope and Home
The kindergarten was started by a lady called Susan Wanjiru who had a passion for helping homeless children. So initially …
Josephine’s sustainability project
Just got done with the third sustainability project of Josephine who is into the business of selling a type of …
Wandia is plaiting women’s hair
We are experiencing long rains so people are busy planting maize and potatoes and also we have general elections in …
Wandia’s business of selling eggs
Then later (09.03.2017) i went to Nyeri to check on the chicken project and it is really doing great. Wandia …
Karatina kids – shopping day
The Karatina kids who are in boarding are on midterm so yesterday (09.03.2017) i went to Karatina, picked them up …
Catherine
12.02.2017: The second sustainability project is done. I gave Catherine the money then she had to get the clothes from …
Fruits for the kids
On Saturday (04.02.2017) there was supposed to be a school meeting for the three Karatina kids who are in boarding …
Catherine and her son
I visit Catherine her son (29.01.2017).
2016
Wanja Migwi’s family
Yesterday (13.12.2016) i went to visit Wanja Migwi’s family and they are doing fine.Now that the schools are on holiday, …
The chicken project is complete now!
The chicken project is complete now, on Saturday i was in nyeri to coordinate the building of the coop and …
Chicken project
I have already started on the chicken project, did some research and found that buying an already made chicken coop …
Kevins last day at primary school
On friday (11.11.2016) Kevin was doing his last paper. I went to his school and got to talk to his …
New school uniforms for the kids
I was also working on the Karatina project, went there picked the kids from the home then i went to …
Mary Ann and Kevin say Thank you
Maryann and Kevin say Thank you to Wiggenhauser family. This family from Germany supports Mary Ann and her son Kevin.
KARATINA KIDS 2016
On Saturday (27.08.2016) I went to visit the Karatina kids at the children’s home. They were really happy to see …
Jackline
Jackline is a forty year old single mother of four children. Its a market day today and she and her …
Editta Mugures Family
Ruth and Roselyn are the youngest daughters of Editta. Today is Saturday and while their mother is out doing some …
Esther Nanyiros Family
Paul is thirteen years and in class seven. His is mother blind meaning after school Paul has to do most …
Wanja Migwi’Family
Wanja is an elderly woman. She had four children and they all died of HIV leaving her with three grandchildren …
2015
Wandia’s Family
Wandia is a 35 year old lady. She has two kids aged between 7 -16 years old. She is confined …
Kagori’s Family
Kagori was a very old man married to a young lady. They have seven children aged between 3-16 years old. …
Josephine’s Family
Josephine is a 44 year old lady. She is a single mother of six children. She has a urinary and …
Vorstellung unseres Vereins
Die Vorstellung unseres Vereins am 1. Mai 2019 in Köln-Wahn war ein voller Erfolg. Vielen Dank an alle!
2014
Catherine Wanjiru’s Family
Catherine Wanjiru is a mentally ill woman and has two children aged 3 and 5 years. She lives with her …
Editta Mugure’s Family
Editta is a 40 year old lady and a single mother of four girls aged between 8-17 years. Editta is …
Mary Wairimu’s Family
Mary Wairimu is an elderly lady and a guardian of eight children. She had three children but two have already …
Esther Nanyiro’s Family
Esther Nanyiro was born blind and due to her condition, men took advantage of her and now she has four …
Maryann and Kevin
Maryann is a 40 year old lady and a single mother of a 14 year old boy. She is HIV …