For all those who are undecided and latecomers: At your request, we have extended the registration deadline for our charity dinner on 17.06.2016 by a few days! Please register right away, at the latest by 10 June. Here’s the: Invitation to the Charity Dinner for steps_17.6.2016 Simply fill out the invitation and send it by post, fax or email
Charity Dinner – Registration deadline extended until 10 June! Read more »
[:de] On 2 May, 2,200 employees attended the staff meeting of Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH’s „Zentral Betriebes Technik“. Our long-standing supporter and ambassador Andreas Roß had the opportunity at the meeting in the World Conference Center in Bonn to report on the work and projects of steps for children. This was followed by a collection
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[:de] For several weeks, Victoria Hussmann supported us actively in Okakarara. With the pre-school and kindergarten children, she practised a bit of English, especially with the help of new simple songs. She also took over art class with the children. There, flowers were lovingly crafted and rainbows were painted. In addition, she supported the volunteers with their morning sports and
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[:de] As the first trimester came to an end, the major exams were now scheduled for grades 4 to 7. That meant cramming, cramming and more cramming for the after-school care classes! We put together lots of practice tests and summaries for the children, went through teaching materials and wished them every success in the exams! [:en]
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[:de] Our world volunteers, Katharina Wagner and Sophia Eckerth, report what was going on in Okakarara before the holidays: Last week, we volunteers came up with a few new ideas for every area. Starting with sports in the morning: With both pre-school and both kindergarten classes, we tried wheelbarrow races, a new racing game and “Journey to Jerusalem”. The kids have
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Once a week, both the morning and afternoon children in Gobabis receive fresh fruit, such as apples, oranges or watermelons. The smiles on their faces are clearly visible when they are given their apple. Even when, during the break, we come to the project with the apple crates, we have a whole
Apples, apples, apples… Read more »
[:de] The Mayor of Gobabis, Lea Iipinge, visited steps for children and Light for the Children in March. She was impressed by the work being done here – both in terms of educating the children and the community work, computer school and carpentry workshop. [:en] The Mayor of Gobabis, Lea
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[:de] In March, during his Namibia trip, Michel Hoppe had the opportunity to present steps for children in detail to Bishop Kameta from the Namibian Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare and to discuss the situation of poverty in Namibia. Both agreed to continue informing each other in the future and, if appropriate, to collaborate on new projects. Michael Hoppe, steps for children and Bishop
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[:de] We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks for the donated swing in Okakarara to ICON IMMOBILIEN GmbH; the company has been supporting steps actively since 2014 with various projects and initiatives. Since the very first minute, the swing has been extremely popular with the children in our steps project! [:en] Thank you very much for the donated swing in
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[:en] Celebrating 10 years of steps for children and winning a flight ticket to Windhoek On 11 March 2016, steps for children celebrated its 10th anniversary in Okakarara. On 17 June 2016, people will also celebrate in Hamburg at the Privathotel Lindtner—the people who, over the past years, have contributed so much to this success: the donors, supporters, volunteers, ambassadors and companions on the way
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