About us

We are a small non-profit organisation that has made it its task to help people in need. The “Projekt Schwarz-Weiss e.V.” ("Association Black-White") was considered particularly worthy of promotion.

We fight for the establishment of orphanages, hospitals, schools and water supplies. For a life of hope!

how it begann ...

When we, the Dürr family from Ingstetten (district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria, Germany), travelled to Kenya for the first time in 1996, we had no idea how much we would be fascinated by the country. You could even say we fell under its spell. The breathtaking natural environment stands in extreme contrast to the widespread poverty. Even in this, a relatively prosperous country by African standards, we saw how countless people live in slums. The poorest of the poor, the children, have it especially hard. Based on official estimates, there are approximately 60 thousand street children in Kenya. We could no longer ignore the suffering of the children and decided to do something about it.

That’s how our association “Projekt Schwarz-Weiss e.V.” came into being on 17. October 1997.

A children’s village is born …  

In October 1999, Gudrun Dürr decided to move with two of her children to Kenya to supervise the building of the children’s village. Denise was at that time 11 years old, and Pascal 2. Her husband Edmund, to whom she has been married since 1980, stayed behind in Germany with their older son Marcel to make a living for the family. Marcel had already started with his education and together with his father he is one of the most active association members.

Despite all the financial problems faced by the association, Gudrun started with the building of the first children’s village (Nice View I). A house and sanitary installations for approximately 15 children were built.