This is a project my mother, Christel Bucksch, supports very actively and I am proud of her success!
The Kamuthanga Settlement Training Centre is a sewing school in Kenya that was originally founded by the women of the Kenian Villiage Kamuthanga to provide information on AIDS, birth control and drug abuse. Eventually the school started a program that provides young girls with an education in sewing. The goal is to enable poor women or girls that became pregnant too early to support their families.

Dr. Ruth Mwangangi-Gerlach was born in this villiage and now lives in Germany. She and her friend Christel Bucksch with her daughter Barbara Lange not only support this school financially, they also visit the school on their own expenses to teach and deliver donations. This villiage has neither electricity nor running water, but it does have hope. The following pictures were taken August 2007, when Barbara Lange and Dr. Ruth Mwangangi-Gerlach taught a patchwork class there.

If you have questions or comments about this project, please contact c.bucksch@elfinet.de