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Moving for a good cause
March 2025
On the return journey from Iten via Nairobi, the network around the foundation can be expanded very successfully: Kenya Medical Training College, Kenya Society for the Blind, Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital, Kenya National Farmers´ Federation ...
February 2025
A tight program during this year's visit to Kenya: visits to sponsored children, to schools in Iten, to new families to be supported, to the school for the blind in Chepsigot, to the Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital in Eldoret, eye check-ups in two schools in Iten and Aiyebo/Baringo...
February 2025
Project Watoto: Through a social media campaign under the initiative of Janik Adorf and team, numerous needy children are supported with school uniforms, mattresses and sanitary pads.
January 2025
At the book fair in the Sayner Hütte, not only books are in demand. In particular, a reading at which mental tools used in Kenyan schools are presented arouses interest in the foundation's work.
January 2025
The children of the Wildbachschule in Offenbach are committed to the foundation by creating well over 100 filled pencil cases and collecting further donations of more than 1,000 €.
January 2025
Lecture at the Rotary Club Simmern-Hunsrück about the origin and activities of our foundation.
January 2025
With great bureaucratic effort, the donated items collected last year and stored at Spedition Zepp can be brought to Kenya.
December 2024
Thanks to the mediation of André Angermüller and Andreas Allmoslechner, the foundation in Kitzbühel is able to accept a large donation of equipment for a planned optician's workshop in Kenya.
October 2024
At the first Koblenz Book Fair, foundation founder Ute Simon will be represented with all her books, which will be presented and sold for the benefit of the Foundation.
October 2024
The 2024 Speaker Stars fundraising marathon will also benefit the Hakuna Matata Foundation. Many thanks to Katja Kaden and team.
October 2024
The Rotary Club Neuwied-Andernach invites the Hakuna Matata Foundation to present its work in Kenya.
October 2024
The Sparkasse Westerwald-Sieg in Montabaur uses an exhibition on its premises to provide insights into the living conditions of Kenyan children and the activities of the foundation.
September 2024
At the ESCRS ophthalmological congress in Barcelona, Michael Frevel once again spared no effort to organize a charity run in favor of the Hakuna Matata Foundation.
June 2024
For the start of the DOC in Nürnberg, Michael Frevel is organizing a 5 km charity run to support the Hakuna Matata Foundation.
June 2024
Upon the invitation by the Südwestrundfunk, the foundation founders are invited to join Patricia Küll in the Landesschau TV Studio in Mainz to present current projects of the foundation.
June 2024
All donations for the summer event of the 15th anniversary of the Frank Adorf Entertainment agency have been contributed exclusively to the Hakuna Matata Foundation.
May 2024
Ultra Challenge 100km London 2 Brighton: The foundation founders Ute Simon and Christof Knebel have successfully completed the 100km ultra run to collect donations to support 100 Kenyan kids in need.
since May 2024
With its ‘Germany’s Next Speaker Star’ event for 2024, the Speaker Stars Alliance is officially supporting the Hakuna Matata Foundation with its collected donations.
February 2024
Project Missy Elliott by Janik Adorf: Thanks to many donors and every textile shop in the community, we were able to provide more than 250 track suits to kids in need as well as high quality, second hand sports shoes - a few behind the scenes impressions can be found here
November 2023
Exhibition “Muitee” by photographer Tim Adorf on behalf of the foundation in Barcelona portraying Kenyan runners and their respective running culture - all proceeds from sales were donated to the foundation.
October 2023
Presenting the foundation at the “Speakerstars Donation Marathon” at the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt
October 2023
Fundraiser for successfully completing the Ironman Championship in Hawaii by co-founder Ute Simon
July 2023
Talk on ambitions and activities of the foundation at the Rotary Club Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein
All year round
All sales from the books “Just Breathe” and “Feel Good” as well as any other books from the co-founder Ute Simon and 5% of all medical invoicesfrom eye doctor and co-founder Dr. Christof Knebel are being donated to the foundation.
Would you like to specifically help and donate to enable a future?
The Hakuna Matata Foundation, as an organization, consciously supports managed projects by providing fundamental and sustainable help. You can contribute with donations to plan and implement the projects long term. All those involved in this project in Germany do their work on a voluntary basis. This keeps administration costs at an absolute minimum, and you can be certain that your donation will actually reach those in need.
