Some pictures from the distribution in September to #moabithilft and #stadtmission in Berlin. Like always they were very thankful.
People are regularly asking if they still can send stuff. The answer is YES PLEASE. At the moment we’re running out of socks, underwear and shoes. If anyone of you has something to donate that would be much appreciated. Other clothes or school supplies are still welcome too. Get in touch by email info@hardcore-help.org

85th clinic today with our local partner The Nathan Hall Williams Center. This integrated clinic was held September 25th in Kaptembwo, Nakuru County. We offered immunizations, antenatal care, nurtrition, hiv testing and councelling, family planning, cervical cancer screening. 196 patients attended the clinic today which is a pretty good turn out. Next to the clinic was a school, the kids in school were given dewormers. Thank you for your permanent support

We have some good news to announce. We found a new partner for our next container project. "Wenn’s im Leben Brennt" is a German civil foundation in Hemer which is located near our town. They bought our next 40 ft container. We're so thankful about this, it's a great start for this new project.

The container is delivered at their plot and we begin with the first part. We have stored many wheelchairs, several hospital beds and other medical supplies here at our warehouse and at the neighbors, everything is going to be stored first in the container. After this we'll see how much we can add. Later this year the container will be shipped to Kenya. If any you have the chance to donate a wheelchair please get in touch, they're always welcome!
Further updates about this project following soon!

Some pictures from the waterfilter distribution to 105 families in June. AYS from Germany and Stray From The Path from the US, two hardcore bands who played #thisisafricafest early June joined us.

We‘ve now distributed over 500 waterfilters this year already with our clean water campaign shirt. Pictures made by Edmason. Our next distribution is planned next week.

We're in the middle of the summer festival season. The first part went well, thanks for all the positive feedback you gave us at the booths, all the nice conversations and interests. Really appreciated it. Catch us in the next weeks at following festivals: RIEZ OPEN AIR, Afdreiht un Buten - Festival am Hartensbergsee, Wacken Open Air, Tells Bells Festival, The Ultimate Summerblast Festival, Ieperfest, Summer Breeze, Reload Festival, Pell-Mell Festival and Fallen Fortress Open Air. If you're able to bring a wheelchair to one of the festivals that would be awesome! Hopefully see you soon!

Donation with socks & men clothes to Gast-Haus in Dortmund.

Today we did another waterfilter distribution in Kapkures, Nakuru. This year so far we have been able to distribute over 320 waterfilters to households with our clean water campaign. Because of your support we can do these distributions every month. We can’t thank you enough for this.

Last couple of days were very educative. Travelled North-East of Kenya to Kitui County to visit the Ikathima Water Project (IWP) a water project in Masyungwa from our new partner Sharewater, a rural area that has major water problems. In this County about 40% of the water points are broken or only partly operating. That’s a big issue. There are multiple reasons, using bad materials in the past, lack of funding or research to mention a few. If hand pumps or water kiosk are not working people have to choose alternative water sources like earth/sand dams which are much further away and more dangerous to use because the water is contaminated. With every problem you first have to define and analyze the problem before you take action. Over the past years there’s a lot of research been done by the Oxford university. Sharewater partners with the Oxford university. The IWP is well-prepared and executed by a Kenyan company Fundifix. This company has created a sustainable maintenance model which could be the answer to solve the water problem in this area. The project involves a combination of using renewable energy and a sustainable finance program. The expansion of a solar system makes sure that the high diesel fuel costs are reduced to 0. The solar system creates enough energy to pump up the water from a 185 meters deep well. The finance program looks very exemplary by using the newest technology. Every household gets a pre paid chip which is connected with a mobile number. One of the major issues at water kiosks is that money disappears. This model makes sure that theres no cash flowing, which makes it also much safer.
This is an impressive and instructive project which we will accompany more in the near future. Together with all the partners we can achieve that many households in rural areas have quicker and safer access to water and sustainable services which will help communities grow.

Some impressions from the waterfilter distributions from last week  in Kapkures, Kenya. Shout out to our local partner The Nathan Hall Williams Center for helping us. More distributions are planned in April. We keep you posted.

End of last week we delivered a vehicle with around 60 boxes and 10 bags to ASBL in Brussels, Belgium. This facility who are supporting over 4000 homeless and refugees, they're always in need. We brought them jackets, shoes, underwear, blankets and sleeping bags. 

Few days before that we did a few deliveries in Dortmund to a street work organization and supported also them with clothes and sleeping bags.