Rafael devotes his time completely to caring for the children and developing the Project. He lives in Lamu, where he manages the Shelter, promotes and coordinates the different programs of humanitarian aid and maintains the Pablo Horstmann Pediatric Hospital. At times, he travels to Spain to promote the NGO and to look for new sponsors and funding.
All the staff in Africa, except for the Spanish doctors who rotate in the Hospital and Rafael, are Kenyans. The majority are young people who, thanks to us, have dignified employment.
All the activites are carried out by the native team. They receive the necessary training and benefit from the experience of collaborating with professionals from Spain. By training the staff, who will remain working there, we are contributing to the development of the area and reducing dependence on external resources.
The employment of Kenyans has other advantages: fluid communication with the children and their families, promotion of individuals in the communities, an eventual professional opportunity for some of our own children and lower costs. We are also contemplating the possibility of them taking responsibility for the project themselves.
In Spain, a group of volunteers handles the monitoring, administration, diffusion, promotion and fundraising. They are all professionals who also generously handle the needs regarding legal advice, building design, writing or composition of texts, which is why over 90% of the contributions are sent to Kenya to be used for the children, the Shelter, the hospital and the aid programs.
We vie for efficiency and transparency. Our size and methods make us transparent, the persons who visit us are our maximum verifiers, our accounts are audited and available to the public.
