Our Team
Waltraud Bertels “ Mama Waltiri “
Waltraud went over to Tanzania 2 weeks after she retired to actively help in a bush hopital and during her first stay in Tanzania she got to know the orphanage of Ntoma. She immediately realized, that they need her support even more. She started to regularly travel over to Ntoma to work in the orphanage for a couple of months. When Waltraud is in Germany she presents slideshows of her charity projects and organizes donation runs together with various schools. Additionally she also founded the "Ntoma Team Germany", who actively supports her in producing marmalade and various needlework for sale on weekly and Christmas markets.
Christina Günther
Christina is the niece of Waltraud and travelled with her to Africa in 2008 for the first time. Straight away she recognized that the charity of her aunt needs additional support of the young generation. She is taking care of this website and social media to keep all faithful partners, donators, supporters and friends up to date. Together with Waltraud she founded the charity to transfer her aunt's lifework into the right hands to secure a future to the orphans in Ntoma.
Evangelina Kamazuma
Evangelina is the director of the orphanage and our local person of our trust. When she was young she came to Bethel (Germany) for a professional apprenticeship as children nurse . Therefore we benefit from a precise and detailed accountancy about every donated Euro and its necessary outlay. Further on Evangelina has got superb ideas on how to create independent revenues for the survival and livelihood of the orphanage like the vanilla cultivation. She really keeps a firm hand on the orphanage and runs the show.
Schwester Margareta
Margareta was born in Sweden, but grew up in Africa in the area near Ntoma. She is deaconess and ran the orphanage previous to Evangelina until she retired. Today she is taking care about the old people living in the surrounding sheds in an exemplary way and supplies them with medicine and something to eat. She redistributes our donated school fees, sorts out the payments to the schools and organizes school uniforms to enable the very poor kids of the village a school education.