[:de] Heroes’ Day is celebrated annually on 26 August and commemorates the Namibian War of Independence, which began on 26 August 1966. For steps for children, Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua is a hero, because as chairman of the trust steps for children in Namibia he is an important partner for the work on site. Festus Tjikuua was born in Okakarara
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[:de] In mid-August, we said goodbye to our four weltwärts volunteers Janna, Lisa, Katharina, Sophia and Patrizia – she was on site for three months. For one year, they devoted themselves with great dedication and energy to our projects in Gobabis and Okakarara and describe the special aspects of this time in three words here
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[:de] This coming weekend, the Alafia festival will take place again in Altona and we will, of course, be there as well. In addition to information we provide about the foundation’s work, this year we are also offering products from our steps sewing room in Namibia, such as table runners and bookmarks. There will also be great African music at the festival, as well as a large African
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After the children have had all their summer holidays in Germany, the holidays finally start in Namibia too. We wish everyone lots of fun in the next 2 weeks!
Holiday in Namibia Read more »
[:de] We are delighted to have had Anna as active support in the Hamburg steps office for almost a month now. Here she introduces herself: “Hello, my name is Anna Schnittker and I started my internship at steps for children in mid-July 2016 and will support the team over the next two months with
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The year of our weltwärts volunteers Katharina and Sophia in Okakarara came to an end last week. But before they left, they still made the children a wonderful gift: „At the end of July, we finally put our plan into action and invested the remaining donations from the donors’ circle meaningfully into the project. So the money for the new spring floor mat came from …”
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[:de] We plan to enlarge the vegetable garden in Okakarara, but also to “professionalize” it. It will then be a typical “income-generating step” that helps us become independent of donations in the long term. In addition to the existing cultivation (income for the employees and vegetables for the soup kitchen), there should be enough vegetables and fruit for sale in
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[:de] After we finally also received the last documents from the authorities for the construction of a new school building at our partner project Otto Gamseb in Rehoboth, and the property was transferred to steps for children, we were able to lay the foundation stone at the end of June. Unfortunately, soon afterwards came the reality check: when digging the foundation, it was discovered,
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[:de] While we are enjoying summer with pleasant temperatures, winter has arrived in Namibia. Last week, the region around Windhoek in particular was affected by the year's first real cold front, with temperatures of up to -15°C below zero. We received word from Gobabis of – 11°C. The cold hits the residents of the poorer neighborhoods in particular, who are without blankets and sleep only
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[:de] It becomes clear again and again how much investing in guest houses pays off. Looking back at June, we have good news from the guest house in Okakarara: we had an above-average number of bookings for an occupancy rate of almost 50%. This surplus benefits in particular the children in our pre-school. Bookings were made by Namibian Vocational Training Assessors (vocational school teachers),
Guest house: a great success Read more »
