Translate:
The Giraffe Project
Giving the gift of education for children living in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

EN
Translate:
Giving the gift of education for children living in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
On 28 May 2023, Team Giraffe will represent the Giraffe Project Children's Charity in the Brussels 20km run/walk to raise funds and awareness for child education in Kenya.
Will you support this highly motivated group by sponsoring their effort?
This will help us
Please visit our page on JustGiving - every Euro will cheer us on!
Thank you so much!
Gesa for Team Giraffe
Jürgen first visited the projects in Kenya at Easter 2012 as part of a Youth service trip. Once there he threw himself into the visits and, with his outgoing and generous personality, soon made friends with Kenyan school students and adults alike.
Jürgen typically kept these people and their needs in his heart. He and his wife, Gay, have sponsored school children through Giraffe ever since.
In March 2017 Jürgen became a Trustee of The Giraffe Project children's charity with an emphasis on strategy and communicating the work we do. He revisited Kenya the same month and has been a constant and passionate advocate for the children we support. His insightful comments kept us on our toes as a Board and gave us significant food for thought! An invaluable and much appreciated colleague from March 2017 all the way to March 2023.
In recent years he organised the team for the Brussels 20km run (see below), which he ran several times. Although he was already ill, he was there again in May 2022 to welcome the runners and represent the charity he loved.
A Memorial Fund has been set up in his honour to support the charity that Jürgen held so dear, and share comments and remembrances of him.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/Juergen-Koenemann-Memorial
A valued partner and friend, we will miss him greatly!
We are a UK-registered charity, providing education for children who live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
Our founders are international educators, our board of all-volunteer directors comes from across Europe.
For just £30/€35/US$35 per month, a child can be clothed, fed and go to primary school.
With £70/€80/US$80 per month, we can send them to secondary school or college/university.
We also happily accept one-off donations for the many other needs of the schools (classrooms, dormitories, computers, etc.)
Visit our schools, college and project pages for more information:
For any additional question, drop us a line via our contact form.
It's thought that around a million children live in poverty in Nairobi's massive slums.
And we are making a difference!
At any one time we're sponsoring around 400 young people in schools and colleges
Our first students now have jobs and families. And they're passing on the love they received, by sponsoring others.
Funds for projects and for running costs make all the difference.
Sponsorship drives everything. Without it our young people would be lost.
There are many ways to do so, and it's one of the most rewarding things you can do!