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--TomRübenach (talk) 18:32, 18 March 2019 (UTC)== Hamilton Ayiera Nyanga == Hamilton Ayiera Nyanga is founder and CEO of the aid organisation "Ayiera Initiative". He was born on 13th December 1982 in the slum of Korogocho in Nairobi, Kenya. He was born from a poor family, grew up under very difficult circumstances just like other slum children did and still do. He did not get the opportunity to complete high school studies due to lack of school fees. It was impossible for his parents to get the money to cater for it. He had to turn at the nearby dumping site [|"Dandora"] to scavenge for food and scrap metals and sell them to recyclers.

In 2006 he received the opportunity to go to South Africa. One of the main reasons was that he used to be a very good football player. The trip has changed his life. He was selected to represent Kenya in a football tournament named “Homeless World Cup”. This tournament was held in Cape Town, South Africa. It gave homeless people a chance to change their own lives. After returning back to the slum Nyanga started his initiative after having received money for his participation in the homeless soccer cup. He invested that money to start his Ayiera-Initiative (CBO).

The initiative is a "Community Based Organization" (CBO), charitable and a pure “sports for development” organisation. Ayiera Initiative sees itself als "Slum Changers" and uses sports in particular to help young kids to finding a way out of the grunge of their lives. Football, or as Nyanga calls it, “Slum Footie”, is a very well working catalyst. It helps to reach many children and Korogocho community members who are then engaged in empowerment programs and social events.

In the long run creating positive social change and development in Korogocho, Ayiera Initiative meanwhile has won high praise from different stakeholders in the international "Sports for Social Change"-Movement. The president of the German Football Association (DFB), Reinhard Grindel, compared the goals of Ayiera’s partner foundation “Stiftung Zukunft für Kinder in Slums” (website in German) with those of DFB’s own foundations. In a letter he stressed the importance of education for young people: “Education is the key in fighting poverty – in Germany and all over the world.” Grindel underlined the relevance of sports for social change. “Football and education are powerful instruments to fight poverty and its hardest consequences.” He added: With Hamilton Ayiera a person is in charge "who knows what he’s talking about.”

Meanwhile a cooperation was brought into effect between Ayiera-Initiative and the NGO "German Doctors" who are working in the biggest slum, of Nairobi, Kibera. On a reguzlar basis the medicins come to the Ayiera-Centre in Korogocho to examine and support not only children and youth but also the population of the neigbourhood. Further support is given by the German Ministry for Development and the NGO CARE Deutschland (Homepage in German). Besides several private and individual supporters one school is supporting Nyanga's initiative already for years: "Gymnasium Alleestrasse" in Siegburg, near Bonn (Germany).