Today is the Humans Rights Day

Today is the Humans Rights Day. A day of courage … Just a little reflection … They say courage is required to advocate for #HumanRights. Because to educate the next generation and to fight for their rights attracts greedy people. And the courage starts here: Can you resist them? Can you endure it? This charity […]

Do yu have a home?

Do you have a home? Blog Sarah Stracke KIDS Kenia ...because of the children!

.. am just writing my weekly report and there is one question I wanna ask you. Do yu have a home? I mean a place where you feel safe. Comfortable. A place where you have something to eat? To drink? Where you can take a shower or a bath? Where you have a bed and […]

Another two months journey…

KIDS Kenia - Blog - or several years now I am fighting for human rights. Sarah.Mwende

von sarah.mwende Another two months journey is almost over. A journey where I really ask myself: Don’t we deserve better? I am here in Nairobi – Downtown – the nervous city that always inspires me so deeply and I am just reflecting, just reasoning, just listing to music while waiting for my transport to the […]

Water is an Human Right!

von sarah.mwende Ok. And then the moment where you wait at the river with little children. In line to fill your 20 ltr Mutungi (canister). Reminding yourself that water is an Human Right. But for which humans?! Obviously not for those little ones around me … Deeply moved I would like to ask: Do you […]

Every Child Matters

KIDS Kenia - Blog - We are literally saving lives because every child matters! Sarah.Mwende

von sarah.mwende Everyone shall play it’s part in preventing child abuse. Sure. That’s only my opinion. But how about yours?! What I see is that people are still hurting little children very easily. It sounds like a child’s play to them. Specially when it comes to children I work with it seems that those monsters […]

Ok, we’ve got a life to live, right?!

von sarah.mwende Ok, we’ve got a life to live, right?! But is it a gift of life to be always on the sunny side? Or is it also a moral duty? I do not really know. I think no one knows. But what I deeply feel is what I believe in. And that’s my story. […]

Why don’t we celebrate our birthdays?

„Sarah, why don’t we celebrate our birthdays?“ Was würdet ihr antworten? Ich habe kurz geschluckt und habe die KIDS dann gefragt, ob sie denn ihren Geburtstag überhaupt kennen. Die Antwort kam von allen sehr schnell: „No, we don’t“ … „Ok“ fragte ich weiter „wann sollen wir dann feiern?“ … Plötzliche Stille und schüchterne Blicke zum […]

Tagebuch Eintrag

KIDS Kenia - Blog - Tagebucheintrag Sarah.Mwende

sarah.mwende (Das Mädchen auf dem Bild ist nicht die kleine Nyota.) Heute am frühen Morgen erhielt ich einen Anruf vom Childrens Department Runyenjes. Es war sehr früh. Daher konnte ich bereits annehmen: Es ist wieder einer „dieser Anrufe“. Das Department berichtet von einem kleinem Mädchen, das gerade ins Hospital in Runyenjes als Notfall eingeliefert wurde. […]

…10 years ago

KIDS Kenia - Blog - 10 years ago..

von sarah.mwende … 10 years ago I packed some things -like right now – and I travelled to Kenya for the very first time. At that point I never really thought that the trip will change my entire life. With that stay I easily wanted to know firsthand what it means to live in poverty. I […]