2010

JULY 2010: The Primary School in Aying, close to Munich, held a sporting day with the children running for a good cause and they ran for the elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Mactau Primary School in  Kenya. These amazing children managed to secure sponsoring for each kilometer they ran which amounted to more than EUR 7.300! The result is absolutely outstanding and we thank you from the Capricorn Foundation and the DSWT in Kenya for this spectacular event and result. The pictures and details of the donation to the Mactau Primary School will be posted here as soon as the equipment has been handed over.

APRIL 2010: The construction of the new house for the girl's orphanage "Menino Jesus" in Mocambique is progressing and coming along as planned. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has undertaken 11 field trips for the children in communities bordering the Tsavo National Parks and has also provided the first much needed desks to a primary school. Read up on all these developments and the other projects we support in our current Newsletter May 2010. 

JANUARY 2010: Dagmar and Kimon Sammüller both celebrated their birthdays in January and donated on behalf of "Menino Jesus". Thank you especially to Kimon who turned 10 years and decided to forego a playstation in order to help the orphaned girls in Mocambique.

Sponsors have been very generous and enabled us to continue the support of 7 children at "Baphumelele" by paying for their school fees. Thank you especially to Toon Bouten, Uli Holtz, vibrio GmbH and many others.

2009

DECEMBER 2009: We have signed a cooperation with The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi Kenya. We will support the Trust in its effort to educate and support children and schools in communities that boarder the Tsavo National Park. We will be sponsoring 336 children and 24 teachers on 12 filed trips into the National Parks. Additionally we are sponsoring new desks, text books and sports equipment for 4 schools bordering the Tsavo National Park. Please read more on our coopertaion in our latest Newsletter: Newsletter_2009_December

Dula Sentle has been cleaned and the renovation work has started - watch the progress and joy the children are experiencing (coming soon - link currently disabled).

Thank you to arvato distribution GmbH for your generous donation on behalf of Baphumelele.

OCTOBER 2009: The Capricorn Foundation has received a face lift and a new Internet presence. Thank you to the creative and helpful minds at projectBlau and Copperco in Munich. Thank you for your pro-bono work and great ideas!

The Capricorn Foundation has extended its work to include Children - Education and Nature Conservation in it's approach. Read more on this and all developments in our Newsletter September 2009.

JULY 2009: we have decided to support and build a house for further 10 girls of the "Menino Jesus Girl's Orphanage" in Manhiça, Mocambique. We greatly look forward to this project as the new house will provide these orphaned girls with a home off the streets and the possibility to attend school. 

JUNE 2009: our once largest and most beautiful project "Dula Sentle" will be opened up again! Under the management of "Healing Homes" the project will be reopened and take up it's former purpose to care for children of the Otse area in the south of Botswana. The Capricorn Foundation has committed to provide the funding for the renovation of the property in order to gain time and allow the center to open up again quickly for the children. More on the development in the near future.

MAY 2009:  Elia Napoletano celebrated his 50th Birthday on the 29th of May and also decided to forego presents on behalf of the Capricorn Children. It was a wonderful Birthday and a total amount of EURO 1.890 was donated. Thank you Elia and all your friends and family. We will contribute these funds to the education of the Baphumelele children.

MARCH 2009: Our little friends in the US - Elena and Jacopo - asked their friends on behalf of their 2nd Birthday to donate to the Capricorn Foundation instead of bringing gifts. An amount of USD 700 was collected and we would like to thank all your friends for this generous and kind contribution. With this amount we will continue to support the Peace Corp Volunteer helping at Bana ba Letsatsi.

JANUARY 2009: Silvia and Dirk Gallowsky both celebrated their 40th Birthdays on January 31, 2009. They asked their friends to donate on behalf of teenagers at Baphumelele to help support them in their education. Thank you Silvia and Dirk - you are extremely generous! A total amount of EURO 2.305 was donated. Thank you to all your friends and family!

2008

DECEMBER 2008: We are very proud to announce that the Capricorn Foundation was elected to receive Euro 10.000 from the Active Help Kinderfond Stiftung - a foundation initiated by  Siemens AG, Siemens Management Consulting (SMC). Thank you  to Mr. Albrecht Wild and all the employees at SMC for this very generous donation. It was dedicated to the furthering of educational projects in Africa and will be used to renovate Dula Sentle. More on this and pictures will be available during the year. Read about the Active Help Kinderfond Stiftung here www.kinderfonds.org/active-help/ .

We have also received funding for 5 teenagers at the orphanage "Baphumelele" for the coming years to support them in their tertiary education (University, High School). Thank you to Michael Kausch from vibrio GmbH, Munich, Toon Bouten, Uli Holtz, and Dirk & Silvia Gallowsky.

OCTOBER 2008: We have taken up a new project called “Memory Books”. It is based on a film and the book by Christa Graf that portrays the lives of HIV positive mothers and their children in Uganda. In order to leave their children a memory of themselves as well as a history of their family and ancestry parents compose memory books. Hand written memoirs their children can read once they have passed away. A deeply moving film and book that touches our very inner most fears and emotions.  

APRIL 2008: The kindergarden at "Casa da Familia" in a township to the North of Maputo, Mozambique was successfully completed and 32 children now attend daily.