When one door closes, another opens somewhere else – and, in the best case, even in the same place. Goodbye Okahandja Samaritans – hello „Ileni Tulikwafeni – House of hope and trust“.

After six years of working together with the cooperation partner Okahandja Samaritans we are now parting ways. The Samaritans will continue to run their small project and are grateful for the support provided by steps for children. However, we have different ideas about how a partnership should work and are therefore going our separate ways again.

We will nevertheless retain Okahandja as a project location:

Together with the highly committed founder Meme Kauna of the project „Ileni Tulikwafeni” we are planning the next project cooperation. The project name means: „Come everyone, let’s work together“. An invitation that steps for children is happy to accept. As early as November 2018, Michael Hoppe met Meme Kauna and her husband Joseph during his project trip to look at the project. In a kindergarten and a pre-school, between 60 and 70 children are cared for. The soup kitchen even feeds over 300 children in the surrounding area and always receives fresh vegetables from the associated garden.

There was also an afternoon care service for up to 100 children in the past, but this could not be maintained due to a lack of financial resources. Here, steps sees a good opportunity to provide support!

Photos (c) Thomas Naber