Journal

Notes as we go.

Not news releases. Short pieces on decisions we made, things that are not finished, and reasoning we would rather put in public than keep in a board minute.

  1. 17 September 2026

    Why our numbers column is still empty

    We could publish estimates today. Several people have told us we should. Here is why we are not going to.

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  2. 11 June 2026

    A club of our own, and what we will not promise

    Pro League Academy has applied to register 1. FC Maurea Brandenburg. Approval is pending, and we will describe it that way until it is granted.

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  3. 19 March 2026

    Why H.O.P.E. starts with three unglamorous trades

    Warehouse logistics, industrial electronics, hotel and restaurant work. Not the trades that sound impressive — the ones where the places are genuinely open.

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  4. 14 January 2026

    What we are building in 2026

    Four things, stated at the start of the year so that you can check at the end of it whether we did them.

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  5. 15 December 2025

    A question we are preparing to ask

    Still Human™ is a giving challenge with no rewards, no leaderboard and no pressure. It runs for the first time in December 2027.

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  6. 6 November 2025

    Six programmes, grouped into four worlds

    Education, lawful migration, talent, emergency support, inclusion and food. Six areas sounds like a lot for eleven volunteers — here is why they belong together.

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  7. 12 September 2025

    Why we registered, after eleven years without a form

    On 1 July 2025 Marouf Adeyemi became an eingetragener Verein. Nothing about the work changed that day — but a great deal about what the work can now promise did.

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Coming

Podcast and community pieces.

We plan to open this to the people we work with, in Germany and in Benin, so that it is not only the board writing. It is not open yet, and we would rather say so than run a section that is permanently "coming soon".

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