MD-11 Fleet Chief Fokko Doyen awarded Order of Merit

Kapitän Fokko Doyen, Founder and First Chairman of  Cargo Human Care e. V. received a prestigious award in Wiesbaden on December 06

On the occasion of National Volunteer Day, the Minister of State for Federal Affairs in Hesse, Michael Boddenberg, conferred on the MD-11 Fleet Chief the Cross of the Order of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany in  recognition of his humanitarian work. 
  
“Fokko Doyen has ardently furthered and won the support of many others for humanitarian aid in Kenya. With his selfless commitment, has has also shown himself a worthy ambassador of our Country,” said the Hessian Minister of State at the presentation ceremony in the State Chancellory. 
  
Fokko Doyen, who joined Lufthansa Cargo in 1998, founded the Cargo Human Care e. V., humanitarian and medical aid project in Nairobi in 2007.  Meantime for the 55 year-old,  Cargo Human Care has, alongside his profession as MD-11 Fleet Chief,  become his life’s work. “Commitment is always worthwhile. Don’t stop at surmising ‘I could  ….’ But get involved, seek kindred spirits as fellow volunteers and multipliers above all . My plea to all and my life’s motto is “Do good and talk about it“, said Fokko Doyen after receiving his award.  Aside from his family, his colleagues on the Cargo Human Care management board, the Lufthansa Cargo Executive and the staff at Lufthansa Cargo, he expressed special thanks to the 30 German doctors, whose unpaid services are making such a great contribution to the success of the project. 
  
Small were the beginnings: The MD-11 pilot began with a case packed with donated clothing for Nairobi. Later, in cooperation with the Anglican diocese of  Mount Kenya South, he built the Mothers’ Mercy Home for orphans and the Cargo Human Care Medical Centre. Meantime,   99 children aged between six and 17 have found a home at the orphanage and up to 2,000 patients monthly are treated at the nearby Medical Center.
  
The humanitarian aid project enjoyed support from the start from the Executive Board and the staff at Lufthansa Cargo.  A fund-raising campaign in 2007, organised in cooperation with the Frankfurter Allgemeine national daily, was so successful that enough funds were available to build the new orphans’ home and the adjacent Medical Center.