Born in 1940. Widow of Heinzi, with whom she lived in Nigeria for nearly 14 years and shares responsibility for Stefan and Cordula. She worked as a secretary at the German School Lagos for many years and thus has a lot of experience with running schools the African way.

Doris is Treasurer of Watoto e.V. at the society's headquarters in Baunatal.

Born in 1953. Divorced, no children and otherwise healthy, too. The Kenyans call him "Mzee" (great wise man) because of his greying hair and superior appearance. Frank has to be credited for organising most of the funding for Manuel Alexander School.

Born in 1963. Married to Micki (much younger and prettier, but she doesn't really like to be on the internet). Stefan spent about nine years of his childhood in Nigeria. He is not exactly Tarzan, but a bush-boy nonetheless. Due to his African experience he proves himself occasionally useful. He speaks fluent Pidgin-English, and he is sometimes called "German Massai".

Stefan's duties are... - well, as mentioned, he is occasionally useful. Oh, well, he is Watoto's webmaster, too.

Born in 1966. Eventually we got her on the internet  - but it required a lot of conviction.  As a Briton, Micki has the least communication problems in the country. Besides, she simply uses her charm when dealing with matters, whereas the others would have to use buckets full of Kenyan Shillings. For the Kenyans, she is simply "Mama".

Micki's responsibility is probably the most important part of our project: sponsorships. Slightly less than 400 children had a sponsorship at the end of 2009, but she would like to have more of them.

Born in 1962. Kai received his nickname in primary school. Since then we know him, and ever since we kept his nickname alive, how very unfortunate. Kai has been a member of the board since Watoto e.V. was founded, which happens to be convenient at times because he knows quite a bit about the law.

Born in 1965. Some years back Cordula's family name was Wentzel, too. She had been in Nigeria even 2 years longer than her brother. That time has had a lot of  influence on her, and she has been attracted to Africa ever since. She and her familiy have been living in Cape Town from 2005 until 2009.

Cordula is our current Chairlady of the Board of Watoto e.V.

Born in 1967. Tom came in touch with Africa relatively late. His wife Cordula found it wiser to feed him the continent in small doses, taking a detour via Cape Town (Africa light) first. That worked out quite well, Tom feels very comfortable in Africa nowadays, but he and his family returned from Cape Town after four years in 2009.

Tom is our current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Watoto e.V.