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beliya founders in Namibia

[:en] The founders of Germany’s first charity bag label, beliya, have been sponsoring the children in the steps projects for many years. They are currently in Namibia, visiting our preschools in Rehoboth and Okakarara. On their Facebook page, they tell you all about their experiences! With their first crowdfunding campaign on oneplanetcrowd.com, they want to support the school construction in Rehoboth and […]

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Day nursery Himmelblau with „Stuffed Animals Opening“

[:de] The eleven children of the Tiger group from Kita Himmelblau, Duvenstedter Markt, set off on 10 March on the long journey to the steps office in Markusstraße, accompanied by their educators Birgit Eckert, Tina Vonderheiden-Klinger, and Marc Görlitz. They had an important gift with them. Together with the adults, they counted the donation box, which was kept under great

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Namibia’s strong women – Lindie Maria from Gobabis on International Women’s Day

Since 2008, Lindie Maria has worked in the preschool of Light for the Children in Gobabis, the partner organisation of steps for children. She is a founding member of the education facility and helped lay the first stones of the school. She began in the soup kitchen at first and later took over her own class. In addition to the 30 pupils she teaches,

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Namibia’s strong women – Ivondia from Okakarara for International Women’s Day

[:de] Ivondia, 42 years old, has worked as an educator at the steps preschool in Okakarara since 2007. She is especially caring, looks after the children’s hygiene, and provides first aid. Ivondia is married to a teacher and has four daughters—three of them are still at school, while one is already working. Besides her

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New intern

[:de] For two months, the steps office in Hamburg will be supported actively by the new intern Sanya Bischoff. The student from Leuphana University Lüneburg is in her 3rd semester, majoring in Individual Studies with focuses on political and cultural studies. Talking about her motivation for the internship at steps, Sanya says: „I want to use the semester break to make

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New volunteers in Gobabis

New volunteers in Gobabis [:de] steps welcomes three new volunteers in Gobabis. Since the end of January, for the first time we have also had two female volunteers in the project via the weltwärts programme: Paula Scharfe and Luise Berkholz teach the children in the mornings. They show the little ones and the older ones how to sing, take part in lots of sports activities, and learn the basics of writing and arithmetic. Since

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steps in Rehoboth

[:en] New food supplies and ingredients for the soup kitchens of our partner projects in Rehoboth, funded by the income from our rental apartments in the area.                                  — Heart for the Children                                                                            Otto Gamseb —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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Experiences of a Volunteer

Our volunteers in Namibia regularly report on their experiences from the projects. Since the beginning of February, the trained preschool teacher Christina Gintenstorfer has been supporting the kindergarten and afternoon care in Okakarara. During the two weeks of active work on the project, Christina has already experienced a lot: „With a Namibian colleague, I look after a group. There are different topic focuses (z.

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