Anno's Africa is a UK based children's arts charity running educational arts projects for children living in slum conditions in Kenya and in cities and towns in Northern Malawi.

The charity was set up in memory of Anno Birkin (www.anno.co.uk) a young, gifted writer and musician who died in a car crash in 2001, just one month short of his 21st birthday.  

Anno's Africa has been operating in Kenya since 2006 and there are currently around 600 children participating  in our workshops in Nairobi . We were joined in 2009 by One Fine Day, a German foundation who are now a sister organizaton and partner us in the Kenyan programmes. They have just funded through the German Govenments GIZ programme, the building of a wonderful Arts Centre in the heart of Kibera. We are now also partners with a French foudation called Anno’s Arts who have been working with us since 2020

The Anno’s One Fine Day centre opened in January this year and has already started classes there which are being run by our affiliated CBO - Anno’s One Fine Day.

Go to our news page to find out more about this exciting new ARTS CENTRE

We have also been established in Northern Malawi since 2017 where we are working with 700 children in Mzuzu and Nkhata Bay.   

Visit our workshop page for the report of our latest 2023 work in Malawi.              

 IClick on photo to watch the short film below for a taste of what we do in Africa.