What we do
Lend a helping hand
Our activities as an aid organization include, among others:
Improving water supply
Relief measures to combat hunger
Improving access to education
Improving access to healthcare
Our aid projects at a glance
Elim Academy
In 1998, we founded the CHA kindergarten in Ayirebi, a small bush village in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Eva Huth, an intern from Würzburg, helped Pastor Alfred on site with the beginnings over several months. In the beginning, only 15 children came, but by the following year, there were already around 140 children who were looked after, taught and provided with a warm meal every day. The kindergarten has become the "Elim Academy" , a general school including a kindergarten for about 700 children. Ayirebi has become a centre of attraction for many children from surrounding villages. In 2012, the first year completed their school education - and the school received a public award for the outstandingly good grades among Ghanaian schools. In 2014 we started planning hospital which was commissioned in summer 2023. A hospital is also in the planning stage and will be connected to the school.
Vocational training and AIDS education in Mozambique
CHA responded to the flood disaster that hit Mozambique in spring 2000 by sending the first aid shipments. We work together with the local aid organisation "CMA", which maintains a mission base in the Mozambican bush and offers medical assistance and AIDS education to the local population there, but also vocational training in a wide range of fields, particularly in the skilled trades, for young people. Our first aid container to Mozambique contained a plant for drinking water production, which the company Pall Rochem Wassertechnik had donated to us.
Orphanage in South Africa
The organisation "Mercy Aids" in Cape Town, headed by Holger Lorenz, runs an orphanage where many orphans of the black population who have been infected with AIDS have found a new family. For some time now, Holger and his wife Kay have been offering courses on various topics related to coping with life, which have already helped many people. The CHA has been supporting this work since the beginning of 2007.
CPET vocational school in Burkina Faso
The organisation "Centre Chrétien des Oevres Sociales du Burkina Faso (CECOS)" was founded in 2004 and supports people in need in one of the poorest countries in Africa. CECOS is particularly committed to the work of a vocational school founded by a German aid organisation. At the "Collège Privé d'Enseignement Technique ( CPET )" in Koudougou, young people are trained as electricians, mechanics and construction workers. The CHA supports this work from Germany.
