Shangilia

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Shangilia ( rejoice ) is the short form for Tumshangilieni mtoto, a Kenyan street children project of the same name in the Kangemi slum in Nairobi . The project is a home with an attached school. The school goes from kindergarten through a preschool class to 8th grade.

development

In 1994 the Kenyan actress Anne Wanjugu († April 2, 2002) played the leading role in the film Usilie mtoto wa Africa ( Don't cry, Africa's child ) about street children. Then in 1994 she founded the project that takes in street children and orphans. In 2001 Anne Wanjugu was awarded the Elisabeth Norgall Prize .

Since then the house has been expanded to include a school and a kindergarten. In 2004 Cap Anamur / Deutsche Not-Ärzte eV bought a piece of land for the growing project. A new school and home have been built here in recent years. This work was completed in 2014. The project has been led by Japheth Njenga since 2005. In 2009 the association Shangilia Deutschland eV was founded with the aim of offering the children in Shangilia the best possible education.

After school, coaches teach students music, acrobatics and dance. Performances and the performance of plays are an integral part of the project, which offers 199 street and orphaned children a home, enables them to go to school and in which cultural activity plays a special role.

Since October 2010 the moderator Frank Plasberg ("hard but fair", ARD) has been the patron of "Shangilia Deutschland eV"

Performances abroad

  • 1996 UNICEF invited Anne Wanjugu with 15 children to Germany for the 50th anniversary. They performed in Berlin, Leipzig and Cologne.
  • 2004 A delegation of children is invited to the World AIDS Conference in Bangkok.
  • 2005 Appearance at the Zanzibar International Film Festival
  • In 2007 the children toured the USA as the Shangilia Youth Choir of Kenya and also performed with Hugh Masekela . They then recorded an album called Rejoice Child of Africa .
  • In 2009, Shangilia took part in the Children's Culture Caravan in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stern Archive December 17, 1998 ( Memento from March 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Previous winners ( Memento from October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ [http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt_und_hessen/nachrichten/frankfurt/?em_cnt=2107875& Frankfurter Rundschau November 28, 2009] (link not available)
  4. ↑ Playlist
  5. ↑ Children's Culture Caravan 2009