The Malaika Project
The team
Anja Prieler-Kemboi
Co-founder, management, organization and communication sponsor, curriculum development Malaika Waldorf School, elementary teacher;
Since her childhood, Africa has been her second home and it should stay that way.
2010 she married Edwin Kemboi in 2013 and together they became the parents of 5 magical children's souls.
She finds inner fulfillment within the Malaika project, through working with the children and women on site, communicating with the sponsors and networking with people from all over the world.
Driven by the idea of bringing Rudolf Steiner's philosophy to Kiptingo, she works tirelessly to fundamentally improve the lives of the Malaika children at all levels.
Edwin Kemboi
Co-founder, planning and organization of construction projects, on-site communication, independent entrepreneur
Born and raised in Kiptingo, as the eldest of 9 siblings, he knows what it means to be a child from a Kenyan village, e.g. he got his first pair of shoes at 15, his first blanket and mattress at 18 and overcame all traumas.
He ran his way to a better future, so to speak, because he was granted Austrian citizenship in 2013 for reasons of state, due to extraordinary sporting achievements.
His entire system is nourished by the idea of giving something back to his community.
Gladys Chumba
Communication with sponsors, organization on site, birthday cakes, training as a Waldorf-specific elementary teacher
Gladys was born in Kiptingo and still lives there. Thanks to the Malaika project, she has already been able to train as a pastry chef and in German (A1 level) and has been to Austria several times.
She is currently training to become a Waldorf-specific elementary teacher.
As part of the team, she communicates with the sponsors and with the sponsor families on site and bakes the birthday cakes for the Malaika children.
Janet Jepkosgei
Elementary teacher with Waldorf training, running coach, former top athlete
Janet is not only the head of the Malaika Waldorf School, but will also be a class teacher.
She is also responsible for the sports/running-specific training of the young girls in Kiptingo.
She completed her German training at the Goethe Institute in Nairobi and is therefore perfectly trained for our Malaika Center, as she will also be responsible for looking after the guests at the Center of Hope in the future.
Beatrice Jebiwott
Class teacher at the Malaika Waldorf School
Beatrice is one of the women who gets the chance to stand on her own two feet through Malaika. She is being trained at the Mbagathi Rudolf Steiner School in Nairobi and will take over one of the classes at the Malaika Waldorf School. She is delighted to have this opportunity to secure a better future for herself and her three children.
Stefanie Jahn
Heart advocate, bridge builder and networker, event planner, 'Kleider machen Hoffnung' ambassador, self-employed entrepreneur
She joined our project in 2023 and immediately fell in love with the idea of improving the lives of the children from Kiptingo and became a great supporter of our project.
She leads by example and has two Malaika godchildren of her own. As a bridge builder, she also connects people to our project, plans and organizes charity events with fundraising, for example, she contributed significantly to the construction and realization of the Center of HOPE.
Stefanie is also an ambassador for the internal project 'Clothes give hope' and an enthusiastic wearer of Malaika dresses herself.
She wears them with great pleasure to make even more people aware of our project.