[:de] At a weekend in July 2017, Felice Lohmann, Chiara Corleis, and two other committed helpers collected donations for steps for children in Hamburg’s city centre. As Felice and Chiara later reported, it wasn’t only that donations were collected enthusiastically—interesting conversations also came about. The volunteer efforts of the students of Walddörfer Gymnasium
Girls´Day became fundraising campaigns Read more »
[:de] In the period from June to August 2017, Denise Schlichting supported us in our steps office in Hamburg as a volunteer. She was able to experience the work of steps for children firsthand during her 6-month volunteer placement at the „Boomerang“ kindergarten in Katutura, and now she brings the impressions she gained on site into our work in Germany
Denise Schlichting active in Katutura and Hamburg Read more »
[:de] ALAFIA went on – so did our volunteers for steps for children. They are unstoppable, even though, as always, it took a great deal of organization and painstaking work. steps has simply been part of ALAFIA for years. And our volunteers were not going to miss it on August 26 and 27, 2017. Our team once again did a great job
steps back at the 15th Alafia Africa Festival Read more »
[:de] On 18 July 2017, an entire school, together with many other helpers, was on duty for a good cause. Just before the summer holidays, the Hamburger Gymnasium Christianeum held a Sponsored Walk. Nearly 1,000 students, along with their teachers and parents, took part. For every lap completed, participants—among whom were not only
Sponsored Walk Christianeum – Over 3.900km for a good cause Read more »
[:de] The auction item, the impressive artistic works by the students from classes 5, 6 and 7 as well as from the art profile course (upper grades) at the Christianeum under the direction of Inga Beyer, could be admired on display boards in the Elbe shopping center as early as two weeks before the auction: oil paintings, drawings, right up to the graffiti—of consistently high artistic quality
KUNST for KIDS – Art auction by the Christianeum for children in Namibia Read more »
[:de] The „Küchenzauber“ company of the vocational schools II in Delmenhorst continues to pursue big plans. After a successful cooperative formation in May of this year, work is already underway on a new exciting project. The students of BBS II, who have been supporting the steps for children foundation for some time through a wide range of creative fundraising events, are planning to go to Namibia as a „flying classroom“
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[In 2016, the Hilfe mit Plan foundation of the children's aid organisation Plan International asked Michael Hoppe whether he would like to contribute his expertise, particularly in the area of income-generating measures, to a joint project in Zimbabwe. He then combined a visit to the planned project area with his trip to Namibia in November 2016. The commitment of the people who
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[:de] Our Swiss retailer for outdoor clothing and equipment, Transa, has been supporting us for some time now. In the current brand magazine, there is now a wonderful article by Nicole Schenker about her experiences with our project and her visit with us in Namibia. Absolutely worth reading—thank you very much! transa.exposure.co/besuch-bei-steps-for-children © Ruedi Thomi [:]
Absolutely worth reading – steps in Transa magazine Read more »
[:de] Since the beginning of the year, we have been able to take in additional orphan children into new steps homes families in both Gobabis and Otavi. In the meantime, we support a total of 12 steps homes families – 3 in Otavi and 9 in Gobabis – with more than 25 orphan children in total. We are delighted that this gives the children a new home, enough
Our steps homes families Read more »
[:de] Our wonderful volunteers Doro, Leonie and Sophia lovingly restored the pictures at our playground in Okakarara and created new ones as well. Thank you so much! [:]
New murals in Okakarara Read more »
