Give a little back

Our main project: Serah's Vision Children's Home, Nairobi

44 58 children.One well.Can we do it?

This is Serah. In Nairobi, she gives 58 children a home. Now we want to build a well with a solar pump together, so that clean water is no longer a matter of luck.

Serah smiling with a baby in her arms
Serah Nzula, founder of Serah's Vision
Serah, Christin and her father Matthias with the children of the Children's Home and the new washing machine
A yard full of children: the new washing machine arrived on July 21, 2026.

The idea behind this site

When we travel, we meet people who achieve great things with very little. Here I introduce their projects, so that everyone can pass on a small piece of their own luck.

More about me

Serah's story

How pain became a calling

My story began with my own experiences of poverty and loss.

I know what it feels like not to know where your next meal will come from. After the unrest of 2007, I lived in Kosovo, a slum in Nairobi, and fought to survive. I collected used bottles and sold them for 2 KSh.

But I also suffered a pain no mother should ever have to bear: I lost my son Caleb because of poverty. These experiences changed me.

Later, my path led me to South Sudan. There I met children who had been orphaned by the civil war. Some had barely anything to eat and no one who truly cared for them. I couldn't look away.

I began inviting children into my home, giving them meals and clothes. I didn't have much myself, but I gave what I had. Out of this calling, the Compassion Orphans and Widows Ministry was born there in South Sudan.

When I finally returned to Kenya, I knew I had not left my calling behind. In Nairobi, it grew into Serah's Vision Children's Home.

Today I want to give children what they deserve: food, safety, education, love and hope. And that is why the well matters so much. Water is needed every day, for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing. A well of our own would supply the children with water for the long term and make their daily lives safer and easier.

But to me it is even more: a sign that these children are seen. That they matter. That someone believes in their future.

I could not protect my own son from the consequences of poverty. But I can fight so that other children get a chance.

This is my story. And it is far from over.

Serah

The Children's Home is run by the Serah's Vision Foundation, registered as a non-profit organization in Kenya.

Visit Serah's Vision website
58children in the home
NairobiDonholm district, Kenya
Serah handing out food to people in the neighborhood
Serah also helps beyond the Children's Home: food distribution in the neighborhood.
Christin, Serah holding a toddler, and Christin's father Matthias in the yard
Christin and her father Matthias with Serah in Nairobi.
Clothes shelf and an old suitcase with children's things in the pediatric practice
Where it all began: the suitcase at the practice in Coswig.
Two girls carrying diapers and a sack of rice through the gate of the Children's Home, one carrying a toddler
The children help carry the groceries through the gate.
Christin with a little boy and a green football
A new football and a little friend.

Our story

How a trip became a project

Sometimes a story begins with a booked flight and grows into something you could never have planned.

In the summer of 2026, I traveled to Kenya with my father Matthias. In our luggage we had not only clothes and travel essentials, but also a suitcase full of children's things. Things we no longer needed at home, but that could still be valuable for the children in Kenya.

Before we visited Serah and the 58 children of her Children's Home for the first time, we went shopping. Rice, beans and flour were among the most important foods. We added toast, margarine, peanut butter and jam, as well as diapers and hygiene products. In the end, it filled three shopping carts.

What we found at Serah's moved us deeply. Next to a broken washing machine, a huge mountain of laundry was piling up. The laundry of 58 children had to be washed by hand.

Serah also told us why she had fallen behind on the rent. Her husband usually works in Sudan and sends money home every month. But the civil war that broke out there had cost him his job. The money stopped coming, and Serah had fallen three months behind on the rent.

We wanted to help and gave her money that was actually meant for a new washing machine. But at first Serah pushed it back. She didn't want to keep the money for herself. Once we understood how urgent the rent situation was, we finally convinced her to accept the money for it.

That same evening, as every day, I shared our trip in my WhatsApp status, with pictures of our visit to Serah and the children. By the next day, my phone was filling up with messages. People asked how they could help Serah and the children. Many could hardly believe that one woman had to wash the laundry of 58 children by hand.

What followed was an incredible wave of kindness. Friends, colleagues, family and people who were simply touched by our story wanted to contribute. Within a short time, around 2,300 euros in donations came together.

So we went back to Serah.

Together we bought a washing machine. For Serah and her team, it was a huge relief. The time that used to go into washing every day now belongs to the children again, and so to exactly what it's all about: being there for them, caring for them and giving them attention.

But on this second visit, something even more important happened: an encounter turned into trust, and trust turned into friendship. And Serah told us about her big dream.

Outside Nairobi, she owns a piece of land. There she wants to have a well built that gives the children and their community access to water and at the same time the chance to grow some of their own food. Whatever they don't need themselves could be sold, making the children's care a little more independent in the long run.

Back in Germany, I couldn't stop thinking about this heartfelt wish. I knew: if I didn't take the first step, nothing would change for Serah, for the children or for this dream. I couldn't just leave the story behind as a beautiful travel memory. So I decided to take the first step.

Sometimes change begins with a single first step, and sometimes it takes just one person to take it for others to follow.

Serah's dream became our shared goal. What began as a trip with a suitcase full of children's things is now a project close to our hearts. We want to help Serah make her dream of a well come true, creating not only water but new opportunities, more independence and a future for the children.

And maybe that is the most beautiful story a journey can write: you set off to discover another world and come back wishing to make a small part of that world better.

This Christmas takes us back to the children – for a very special first Christmas together.

A letter from Serah

Sometimes God brings people into our lives exactly when we least expect it, and only later do we understand why.

Christin, when you came to Kenya with a suitcase full of things for children, neither of us could have imagined what would grow out of this simple encounter. You came as a visitor, but you left as a friend, as a sister and as someone who carries the story of our children in her heart.

Thank you for sharing our story with people in Germany and beyond, and for continuing to believe in what we are trying to build for these children.

My story has not always been easy. Losing my beloved son Caleb when he was only three years old remains one of the deepest wounds of my life. I know what it feels like to live through poverty, hunger and helplessness, and to know the pain of not being able to give your own child what they urgently need.

But God took this pain and gave me a purpose.

Today I look at the children in our home and see 58 precious lives entrusted to our care. They deserve love. They deserve protection. They deserve education. They deserve to grow up with hope and dignity.

And now we have another dream: a well for the children. The well project in Mwaani, Kitui County, is not simply about having water. It is about giving the children more security and dignity and creating a more sustainable future for their home. Every contribution, every prayer, every share and every person who tells someone else about this project brings us one step closer to this goal.

To everyone reading Christin's story: thank you for taking a moment to see these children, not simply as numbers or statistics, but as individuals with dreams and a future.

And to you, Christin: thank you for seeing us. Thank you for hearing our story and refusing to simply walk on. Thank you for becoming part of this journey.

I truly believe that our meeting was no coincidence. What began with a suitcase has become a mission of the heart.

May God bless you, Christin, and every person who chooses to stand beside our children. Together we can help make this well a reality.

With love and gratitude
SerahSerah's Vision Children's Home, Nairobi, Kenya

What we've already achieved

While I was still traveling, friends and colleagues followed along with my status updates. Within a short time, around €2,300 was raised. With it we were able to achieve a lot:

  • Food and hygiene products

    Bought for the children's everyday needs.

  • Rent arrears paid off

    So the children can keep their home.

  • A new washing machine

    Bought together with Serah. Before, everything was washed by hand.

  • The water survey

    Survey, environmental assessment and permits are paid for: 120,000 KSh, about €807.

Old, broken washing machine next to a mountain of laundry
Before: a broken machine and a mountain of laundry for more than 50 children.
Serah, Christin and her father Matthias giving a thumbs up in front of the new washing machine in the shop
After: the new machine is bought.

Our next goal: a well of our own

Serah owns a piece of land in Mwaani, Kitui County. What's missing there is water. With a well, potatoes, onions and tomatoes can grow there. Older family members who have finished school can help with the farming.

This way, our help becomes a sustainable foundation for nutrition, education and the children's future.

If possible, people from the neighborhood should also get access to affordable water. The hydrogeological survey has already been done: it found water-bearing layers and recommends drilling to a depth of about 180 meters.

  • Drillingto at least approx. 180 m
  • Pumpbrings the water to the surface
  • Solar systemruns the pump without electricity costs
  • Water tankstores water as a reserve
  • Water distributionbrings the water to where it's needed

Estimated cost of the well: 2.5–4 million KSh
about €16,800–26,900, depending on the actual drilling depth

Why our fundraising goal is €40,000

Drilling alone isn't enough. For vegetables to really grow on the land and turn into an income for the children, more is needed:

  • Toolsfor working in the fields
  • A huton the land, for the people who farm it to live in
  • A carto bring food to the children and the harvest to the market

Only once the essentials are in place can the project get going. If the need changes, we will adjust the goal openly.

€4,377
of €40,000 fundraising goal

Every euro takes the drilling a little deeper. Donation total on GoodCrowd, as of: September 23, 2026

Inside the Children's Home

More projects

More than a well

Serah's Children's Home is our main project. But along the way, other people and projects have come into my life that deserve support.

Clothes being handed out to people living on the street, Serah in the background
Serah and a helper packing flour and rice

Nairobi, Kenya

Compassion Ministry: Serah's help on the streets

Once a month, whenever support arrives, Serah provides families living on the street and people in very difficult situations with meals, food and clothing. Among them are families of her children, because not all the children at Serah's are full orphans.

“We want them to know that they are not forgotten.”Serah Kitonga

Christin, her father Matthias and the children and teenagers of the home in the evening in front of the house
Christin and her father Matthias with a man from the children's home
Donated food, sacks of rice and boxes, ready to be handed over
The children sitting together in the common room in the evening

Kaliasem near Lovina, North Bali

Dada and his children's home in North Bali

In Kaliasem near Lovina in the north of Bali, I Ketut Somayasi, lovingly called “Dada” by everyone, looks after children and teenagers who have often had little luck in their lives. He gives them a roof over their heads, supports their education and helps them find a future of their own.

The home is privately run and receives no sufficient government support. It lacks food, hygiene products, school supplies, clothing and proper places to sleep.

Children playing football with young visitors on a wet village street under coconut palms in Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat, West Papua

Child Aid Papua: education for a future in paradise

On our trip to Indonesia in 2024, we got to know a very special project in Raja Ampat. In one of the most remote regions of Indonesia, Swiss founder Jonas Müller opens up real future prospects for children and teenagers through education.

Here the children learn not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but also English, digital skills and practical abilities. One focus is protecting the ocean, because those who know and understand nature can also learn to protect it. Internships prepare the teenagers for jobs in marine and eco-tourism, and some former students now work in diving, tourism or conservation.

Jonas' father showed us around the school, and we also got to meet Jonas himself. What touched us most was the children's enthusiasm for learning. We are not starting our own aid project here, but we believe: projects like this deserve to be seen.

Sometimes it doesn't take much to open a door. Sometimes education is exactly that door.

Christin smiling in a selfie with a girl under palm trees
On the road: the most beautiful encounters are often unplanned.

About me

Hi, I'm Christin

I'm from near Dresden and work as a nurse in a pediatric practice in Coswig. Children are close to my heart, both at work and in my private life. For many years I have been helping disadvantaged people, especially on my travels. Education and fair chances for children are a matter of the heart for me.

On the road, I keep meeting people who do incredibly much for others with very little.

Serah is one of those people. Ever since I visited her in Nairobi, her story hasn't let go of me. But projects in Indonesia that I support have also touched me.

With this site I want to show: everyone can pass on a small piece of their luck.

On Instagram, you can follow my travels at tini.on.tour .

Supporters

Thank you to everyone who helps

Help doesn't only come as money. These people and businesses support the project with their time and skills.

Werbestudio Mieth

Coswig

Created our flyers and posters for the project free of charge.

werbestudio-mieth.de

Elbwerk.media

Dresden region

Designed and built this website on a voluntary basis.

Instagram: @elbwerk.media

Would you like to support the project with your company? Get in touch.

How you can help

Every amount helps, whether for the well or the children's daily lives. The money goes directly to Serah and the Children's Home.

Via GoodCrowd

Our fundraiser “44 Kinder, 1 Brunnen – schaffen wir das?” (44 children, 1 well – can we do it?). There you'll also find all the news and letters from Serah.

Via PayPal

Directly to Christin, please use the reference “Serah's Vision”.

Or send directly to: christin.home@aol.de

Prefer bank transfer?

Send us a short message and we'll email you the bank details personally. We're also happy to answer any other questions about donating.

We currently cannot issue donation receipts for German tax purposes, as there is no registered charity behind the project yet. We are working on a solution.

Stay in touch

In our WhatsApp channel we share photos, news and every step of progress on the well. You don't have to donate to be part of it.

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Questions? Write to us

Would you like to know more about Serah, the children or the well, or help in another way? Feel free to contact Christin.

On Facebook you'll find Christin as “Christin Teucher”.

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My story

Serah's story

Why I started this work and why it means so much to me

I believe it's important that you know the heart and the story behind the ministry you have chosen to support.

My journey with vulnerable children did not begin with an organization, an office or financial resources. It began with my own life. With poverty. With loss. With pain. But also with the deep sense that God had a path for me.

I know what poverty means

There was a time in my life when I lived in the slums myself and simply had to fight to survive.

During the difficult time after the unrest surrounding the 2007 elections, I lived in Kosovo, a slum in Nairobi. I remember collecting used bottles, washing them and selling them to small shopkeepers for 2 KSh each. They used the bottles to measure out kerosene for their customers.

2 KSh may sound like very little. But back then, it meant something to me. I took any honest work I could find, because I had to survive. I know what it feels like not to know where your next meal will come from.

But I also suffered a pain no mother should ever have to bear. I lost my son Caleb because of poverty. This loss changed me profoundly.

I know what it feels like to struggle with poverty. I know what it feels like not to have enough. And I know the pain of losing a child. I carried these experiences in my heart when my path led me to South Sudan.

Serah handing out food to people living on the street
To this day, Serah shares what she has, including with people on the street.

The children in South Sudan

There I met children who had been orphaned by the civil war between different ethnic groups. Some of these children lived with relatives. But I saw situations where the families' own children were fed while the orphans were neglected.

Some children had no breakfast in the morning and nothing to eat at lunchtime. Only in the evening did they sometimes get a small portion. My heart could not bear to see these children suffer like this.

So I began inviting some of them to my home for breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I also prepared an early dinner so they would at least have something in their stomachs when they went home.

At that time I was selling clothes. When I saw one of the children in torn, very old clothes, I sometimes gave them clothes from my own stock. Little by little, I stopped seeing these children as children I was simply helping. I began to see them as my own.

I didn't have much to give. But I gave what I had.

And every time I could feed a child or give them something to wear, I was filled with deep joy. I believed then, and I still believe today, that in doing so I am not only helping a child. I am serving God.

When I had to leave South Sudan

Then the situation became more and more difficult. In 2012, rumors of secret killings began to spread. By 2013, the situation had turned into a civil war. I feared for my life. Many foreigners began to leave the country. In the end, I returned to Kenya.

But when I came home, I realized something: I had returned to Kenya, but I had not left my calling behind. The faces of those children had stayed in my heart. My own experiences of poverty had stayed. And the pain of losing my son Caleb had stayed too.

I felt that God was calling me to keep serving vulnerable children here in my own country. So I carried on. I had the Compassion Orphans and Widows Ministry registered. And later, this calling led me to found Serah's Vision Children's Home.

Serah's Vision is more than a children's home

To me, Serah's Vision is far more than a children's home. It is the continuation of my own journey. A journey that began when I myself had to fight to survive. A journey connected to the child I lost. A journey connected to the children I met in South Sudan.

And a journey connected to every meal I have shared, every piece of clothing I have given and every child I wanted to tell: you are not forgotten.

I could not protect my own son from the poverty that took his life. But I can spend the rest of my life making sure that other children have food, water, clothing, education, love and someone who stands up for them.

That is my calling. That is why I started this work. And that is why I continue it to this day.

Why the well is so important to me

You may wonder why a well means so much to me. For many people, water is something that is simply there. You turn on a tap and get clean water. For us, it is not a given.

In a children's home with many children, water is needed every day: for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing clothes and cleaning. A well of our own would give us a more reliable water supply and help create a healthy environment for the children.

But to me, this well means much more. It means that someone sees these children. That someone says: “You matter. Your well-being matters. Your future matters.”

The well will not simply supply water. It will be a source of life, right in the middle of a place where children are given a new chance.

The children of the Children's Home in front of the entrance
The children of Serah's Vision in front of their home in Nairobi.

When I look back on my path

Sometimes it's hard for me to believe how far this journey has come. From living in the slums. From collecting used bottles and selling them for 2 KSh. From struggling for the next meal. From losing my son Caleb. From the children in South Sudan. To a home for children in Nairobi.

I never planned for my own pain to one day become a ministry. But I believe that God can take the broken pieces of our lives and make something greater out of them.

What I have experienced has taught me that we don't always need to own much in order to give. Sometimes we can only give a meal. Sometimes a piece of clothing. Sometimes a home. Sometimes our time. And sometimes it is enough just to show a child:

I see you. You matter. You are not alone.

Our story continues

Today, many children live at Serah's Vision who depend on protection, care and support. Every child has their own story. And I wish for every single one of them that their future will not be defined by their past.

Maybe one day they won't remember every meal they ate here. Maybe they'll forget individual days. But I hope they will remember that there were people who believed in them. People who said: your life is precious. Your future matters.

And I hope that one day the well will also be part of this memory. Not just as a source of water, but as a symbol of compassion, hope and the fact that people from different parts of the world can come together to give a child a better future.

I lost my own son. But I have learned that love does not end with loss. Sometimes it finds a new way.

Maybe that is exactly the story of my life. And maybe that is exactly the story of Serah's Vision.

SerahSerah's Vision Children's Home, Nairobi, Kenya

Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Child Aid Papua

Education for a future in paradise

The Child Aid Papua school building stands on stilts by the water in front of forested hills
The school lies right by the water, surrounded by mangroves and rainforest.

Sometimes great change begins with a single idea.

During our trip to Indonesia in 2024, we got to know a very special project in Raja Ampat: Child Aid Papua. In one of the most remote and at the same time most fascinating regions of Indonesia, Swiss founder Jonas Müller is working to open up real future prospects for children and teenagers through education.

Raja Ampat is world-famous for its unique marine life and biodiversity. But for the people who live there, the remoteness is also a big challenge. Access to good schooling is especially difficult in the remote island communities. This is exactly where Child Aid Papua comes in.

What impressed us most: it's not just about teaching children to read, write and do arithmetic. The students also learn English, digital skills and practical abilities. A special focus is on environmental education, protecting the ocean and treating Raja Ampat's unique nature sustainably.

Because those who know and understand nature can also learn to protect it.

The school combines education with concrete future prospects. The teenagers gain practical experience and are prepared, among other things, for jobs in marine and eco-tourism. Internships give them insight into the working world. Some former students have already found their way into diving, eco-tourism or conservation.

Wooden gate with the Child Aid Papua sign and school signs
The entrance to the school
Wooden school desks in front of a whiteboard in a classroom
A classroom with wooden desks
Wooden common room with a large picture of a manta ray
The common room, with a manta ray above
Dormitory with wooden bunk beds and hanging school uniforms
In the boarding school, the teenagers sleep in bunk beds
School uniform with cap and tie hanging on the wooden wall
The school uniform, ready to wear
Dining room with a long wooden bench and large drinking water bottles
The dining room with its drinking water supply
Blue sports court surrounded by palm trees and rainforest
The sports court among the palm trees
Display board with photos of the endemic species of Raja Ampat
Environmental education: the region's unique species
Children playing football with young visitors on a wet village street under palm trees
Football in the tropical rain

The Blue Ocean School

When we were there in 2024, Child Aid Papua was raising money for a new building. Only one path runs through the village: on the side facing the sea, among the mangroves, stands the existing school. On the other side of the path lay an already cleared plot where the “Blue Ocean School Papua” was to be built, with four classrooms, a small clinic, a library and a Geopark corner. We donated to it back then too.

The new building has since been completed, so even more children in Raja Ampat can get a good education. Child Aid Papua shows what the new school looks like today on its website.

Construction sign of the Blue Ocean School Papua with design images, taken in 2024
The construction sign when we were there in 2024
Cleared plot with tree stumps in front of palm trees and rainforest
The plot in 2024. Today the new school stands here.

Why we're telling this story

We were able to visit the school ourselves during our trip. Jonas' father showed us around, and we also got to meet Jonas himself. What touched us most was not only the impressive surroundings and the concept, but above all the children's enthusiasm for learning.

We want to introduce Child Aid Papua here and share its story. Not because we want to start another aid project of our own, but because we believe projects like this should be seen. Maybe the story will reach people who have never heard of this school and who care about education, ocean conservation or the future of children in remote regions.

Because sometimes it doesn't take much to open a door. Sometimes education is exactly that door.

Kaliasem near Lovina, North Bali, Indonesia

An encounter that stayed with me

Dada and his children's home in North Bali

Bali, Indonesia: a place where help is urgently needed.

On one of my trips through Bali, I came across a private children's home in Kaliasem near Lovina in the north of the island. There, I Ketut Somayasi, lovingly called “Dada” by everyone, cares for children and teenagers who have often had little luck in their lives and need support.

Dada gives them more than a roof over their heads. He accompanies them, supports their education and tries to give them a future of their own. He especially looks after older children and teenagers. The youngest resident is now six years old; the other children and teenagers are of various ages.

But the conditions there are difficult. The children's home is privately run and receives no sufficient government support. It lacks the most basic things: food, laundry and cleaning supplies, hygiene products, school supplies, clothing and proper places to sleep. The simple mattresses and the very basic kitchen give an idea of how modest the living conditions are.

When I was there myself in 2025, I didn't want to just watch. So even before our trip, we had collected children's things. We brought around 50 kilograms of clothing and other items for the children to Bali: from my own children, from our circle of friends and from the donation suitcase at the medical practice where I work.

We also bought food and everyday essentials ourselves and handed them over to the children's home during our visit. Only there did we meet Dada in person and spend time with him and the children.

A visit that stays with you.

Because sometimes it's the simple things that help immediately. At the same time, being there made me realize how great the need really is. What we can bring and finance ourselves during a trip only lasts a short moment.

That's why I want to keep supporting this children's home through this website. Together we can help Dada continue to care for the children and teenagers and give them a safe home and a future.

Our visit

Two full shopping carts with rice, milk and groceries at the checkout
Two shopping carts full of rice, milk and staple foods
Christin's father Matthias carrying sacks of rice, next to him a girl from the home
Christin's father Matthias carrying the sacks of rice
Large striped bag full of donations in front of two rattan chairs
A big bag full of donations
Christin, her father Matthias and the children and teenagers of the home in the evening
Together with the children and teenagers
Christin's father Matthias sitting on a bench with boys from the home
Christin's father Matthias with the boys
The children sitting together in the common room in the evening
Evening in the common room

How the children live

Bedroom with mattresses directly on the tiled floor
They sleep on mattresses on the floor
Room with colorful plastic cupboards for the children's clothes
Each child has a small compartment for their things
Outdoor kitchen with a pot on a fireplace and a sink
Cooking is done over an open fire
Covered outdoor area with sinks and dishes
The outdoor washing-up area

Yoga with Dada

By the way, Dada isn't only there for the children. He is also a yoga teacher and gives yoga classes around Lovina. If you're traveling in Bali, you can meet him, book a yoga class with him and at the same time support someone who is committed to the children and teenagers with great personal dedication.

Every contribution helps make very concrete things possible that are urgently needed in everyday life.

Serah's outreach program in Nairobi

Compassion Ministry

Share food. Restore dignity. Show compassion.

Compassion Ministry is an outreach program that supports people living on the street, as well as individuals and families in difficult life situations.

We believe: when we have something to share, we should also think of those who may have nothing. Through this program, we provide practical support and meet every person with dignity, kindness and respect.

What we do

Feeding program

We prepare meals and distribute them to people living on the street and to others affected by food insecurity. A simple meal can give comfort, strength and hope to someone going through a difficult time.

Clothing distribution

We provide clean and suitable clothing for people who don't have enough clothing to meet their basic needs.

Food and basic supplies

We share food and everyday essentials with individuals and families in difficult situations. When we have more supplies than we currently need ourselves, we pass them on to those who need them most.

Compassion and encouragement

Our work goes beyond material help. We listen, encourage and want to show people that they are seen, valued and not forgotten.

Why we do it

People living on the street are often overlooked and face great challenges every day in meeting their most basic needs. Compassion Ministry wants to help in practical ways while showing genuine care for the person behind their circumstances.

Our goal is to make a real difference, one person at a time: food when someone is hungry. Clothing when someone needs it. Encouragement when someone feels forgotten.

How you can help

Every bit of support helps us reach one more person in need. Your help can make the following possible:

  • Meals and food
  • Clothing and everyday essentials
  • Hygiene and personal care products
  • Outreach and distribution events
  • Further practical support for people in difficult situations

Whether through financial donations, food, clothing, in-kind donations or a partnership: your support helps us extend this work to more people. Together we can turn compassion into concrete action.

Serah Kitonga