In mid-August, we said goodbye to our four weltwärts volunteers, Janna, Lisa, Katharina, Sophia and Patrizia – she was there on site for three months. For a year, they devoted themselves with a great deal of heart and energy to our projects in Gobabis and Okakarara, and here they describe to you in three words what was special about this time […]
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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!
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[:de] Wir freuen uns, Anna seit mittlerweile fast einem Monat als tatkräftige Unterstützung im Hamburger steps-Büro bei uns zu haben. Hier stellt sich nun selber vor: „Hallo, mein Name ist Anna Schnittker und ich habe Mitte Juli 2016 mit meinem Praktikum bei steps for children begonnen und werde das Team in den nächsten zwei Monaten bei
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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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We plan, on the one hand, to expand the vegetable garden in Okakarara, but also to „professionalise“ it. It will then be a typical „income-generating step“ that helps make us independent of donations in the long term. In addition to the current cultivation (income for the staff 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 for us it’s summer with pleasant temperatures, winter has arrived in Namibia. Last week, the especially the region around Windhoek was affected by the first real cold front of the year, with temperatures down to as low as -15°C below zero. We received a message from Gobabis about -11°C. The cold especially affects residents of the slums, who have no blankets and 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),
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[:de] A few weeks ago, our volunteers Janna and Lisa in Gobabis, together with the teachers, started a sports programme for the different classes: „Every week there is a specific theme, such as throwing, shooting, dexterity or team sports. At the beginning of every sports session, we play something to warm up and then start with the different exercises
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