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A Passionately Good Deed

Stephan Hock, who moved to Windhoek with his family a few years ago, is currently developing a lively cookbook: Together with a cooking school in Windhoek, he cooks recipes that are submitted and shared via his website. And of course, he also shares his own recipes featuring culinary delights. The first recipes are already on his website

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Zugabe Prize 2019

Michael Hoppe has done it! After already being among the winners of the startsocial competition and receiving the Peace Dove as well as the Federal Cross of Merit, he was awarded the Add-on Prize by the Körber Foundation on June 4, 2019. Michael Hoppe donates his prize money of 30,000 euros to steps for children. The prize money is intended to support the education of children in Namibia

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Chickens and honey for families in Mutare and Mutasa

In addition to the four ECCD centres at the Mutare and Mutasa project locations, we are also working with the project communities to develop income-generating measures to improve the financial situation of families. A market analysis has shown that vegetable growing, beekeeping, poultry and fish farming are promising business areas. Chickens and honey for families 60 women and men

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Construction of New Classrooms in Gobabis

The word has gotten around in Namibia: Children who attend preschool in our project are given preferential admission to state schools.  Therefore, more and more children from the surrounding informal settlements are turning to our social projects. So, naturally, parents in Gobabis are also increasingly aware of how important education is for their children and are already standing in line two days before opening

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The World of Feelings

A New Building Block for the Preschool in Okakarara So far, at the preschool, numbers, letters and basic English vocabulary have been taught to the 5 – 7-year-old children through play and with lots of exercises and songs. A lack of emotional was repeatedly observed in the playground and in the classrooms, even among older children

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‚+++ News from Rehoboth +++ Bridge of Hope has a new kitchen +++

Can you still remember the first shovel turns for the kitchen in February? We informed you about it here and are now very pleased that this construction was completed at the end of March. The new kitchen with gas and electric cooking facilities, refrigerator and freezer, kitchen cabinets and large work surfaces for preparing lunch was made possible mainly by the Rotary Club Hamburg

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Liesberg family visiting steps

The Liesberg family travelled to our steps project in Okakarara and Ongomombonde for four days in March and did not miss the opportunity to lend a hand themselves. Mother Eva devoted herself to the artistic design of the classrooms together with the steps students. Together, they created a wonderful picture that now adorns the wall and makes lessons much

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Education makes you strong!

Yvonne Tjongarero has worked as a preschool teacher since 2017 at the steps for children kindergarten in Okakarara. Her heart is with the girls and boys who, in some cases, already come to steps at nursery age. With a lot of patience and warmth, she supports their age-appropriate development, their curiosity, and their natural drive to acquire skills and knowledge. Yvonne is

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