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Celebrate Christmas with steps

Your Christmas celebration for empowerment! You’d like to celebrate and organise Christmas with your friends and acquaintances, with your work team, or with your family—and you’re currently planning a Christmas party? Then please ask the guests at your Christmas celebration this year to make donations instead of gifts. This way, you help young people in Namibia, through steps for children, to get a chance at a life worth living for the future

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Social holiday in Namibia – Proescher family

„Teacher, teacher!“ Fingers shoot up, but no one simply shouts the answer into the room, instead everyone waits patiently for their turn.

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Commitment to steps

Once again this year, the steps for children foundation successfully took part in the opening of the KulturSommer am Kanal. It was a great pleasure for Janina Tege and Anton Rathgeb to represent the steps for children foundation at the KulturSommer am Kanal in the district of Herzogtum Lauenburg on the last Sunday in June. At their stand, many

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Trainee Home in Gobabis

Another income-generating step In Gobabis, accommodation is currently being built for young adults who are completing vocational training at neighbouring educational institutions. Two years ago, thanks to a very generous donation, we acquired a plot of land with a house in need of renovation in the immediate neighbourhood of the guest house in the Nossobville district. A house in need of renovation is made fit again

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Project trip to Namibia

Project trip to Namibia At the beginning of April, our founder Dr Michael Hoppe and Board member Andreas Roß travelled to Namibia to visit the six project locations of our organisation. The trip was characterised by exchange, further development and qualitative improvement for the sustainable future design of our projects on site. steps Namibia It was particularly pleasing to be able to visit Namibia together with our national

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Social holiday from the Fehr family

Social holiday in Gobabis: An unforgettable experience for the Fehr family In August 2024, the Fehr family visited our guesthouse in Gobabis, Namibia. This was not just a holiday, but a social holiday that brought them into contact with the children and employees of our projects. Jackie Sanjath, centre coordinator for Gobabis, was delighted about the visit: “The Fehr family has

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Clenda – steps student from Windhoek

Student Clenda talks about how she started out as a small child in the steps for children kindergarten in Okakarara and is now able to pursue her own path in life. She talks about how the support and encouragement she received in her early childhood helped her to continue school and achieve her goals. Today Clenda is a student, and

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Celebrate a birthday with steps for children

Celebrate your birthday with steps for children Celebrate for empowerment and celebrate your birthday with steps for children! Ask the guests at your birthday party for donations instead of presents. In this way you help young people in Namibia to get a chance for a future worth living through steps for children. We have put together a few points that you can use to

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Less Sugar, More Health

steps employees receive further training in healthy nutrition Two colleagues from the steps Okakarara team took part in a Nutrition for Health Workshop in December 2024 as part of the nutrition initiative. Afterwards, they prepared what they had learned and passed on key information and insights to their colleagues – in an internal mini-workshop, in the large hall in

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Hamburg Citizens’ Award 2025 for steps

✨ The steps for children foundation has been awarded the Peter von Zahn Memorial Prize as part of the Hamburg Citizens' Prize 2025! ✨ The award The Hamburg Citizens' Award was founded in 1982 by the CDU Hamburg. It is a completely politically independent prize that honours people and institutions in Hamburg that have made a special contribution to the community.

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