Where we
come from

It all began with a holiday. In 1993 Herta Everwien went to Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa, for the first time. The city of Cape Coast, is a popular tourist destination in the Gulf of Guinea, with around 170,000 inhabitants. Year after year, she got to know the country better and bought a house there. She quickly realized that Ghana is not just a holiday destination and began to help the people living in poverty there.

In 2008 she started sponsoring a boy and got to know the orphanage where the boy lived. She met the social worker Gladice, who lived there with ten children in about 7 m². Unfortunately, Gladice fell ill with malaria so Herta began to help her. The condition of the orphanage shocked her.

From that moment on, she knew that the street children in Ghana had to be helped. Their idea of building a new home for the children grew. In order to lay the foundation stone for the new house, donations had to be collected, so she initially sold coffee and cake together with her colleagues from the VW plant in Emden, Germany.

Through these donations we were able to buy a plot of land near Cape Coast. Together with the architect and the workers from the region, we began to make our dream come true.   So far, we have invested 28,000 Euros for the building of the ground floor.