Felizia in Namibia says hello! Felizia in Namibia says hello – one of our volunteers, who works together with Anna at steps in Gobabis. If you’re also interested in a voluntary service year (FSJ), you’ll find more helpful pages at the end of the interview. Who are you and since when have you been based at which location with steps? My name is […]
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Anna in Namibia! Get to know our volunteers who in 2023–2024 spent a whole year doing their FSJ in Namibia at steps for children at the facilities. Hey, I’m Anna and since mid-August 2023 I’ve been here with steps in Gobabis. This summer I finished my Abitur, and in Germany I enjoy things like bouldering and youth work
We provide training and invest in team building Training and further education are important if you want to develop as a team, but above all as a foundation and project. That's why we encourage and challenge: We provide training and invest in team building. Team spirit and workshop in Gobabis After a team-building funday at the Gobabis site, which was characterised by games and
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Do you know the ethnic minority of the San? The San are considered the indigenous people of southern Africa. Over thousands of years, their living space has been increasingly squeezed by the arrival of the Bantu („Black Africans“) and Europeans. This also led to their culture being lost. Many San people today can no longer speak their language, where one
Dream house in Namibia A dream house in Namibia – that would be great, right? During the afternoon lessons in Gobabis, some dream houses were brought to life and awarded. Since 2021, we at steps for children in Gobabis have had a new teacher, Manfred Haoseb—he is responsible for the steps homes and the Schutzengel children, as well as for the afternoon classes. He comes up with all sorts of new ideas,
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Passed with distinction In Gobabis, we can congratulate: our long-standing educator and pre-school teacher Stephanus Santiago Narib from our partner project Light for the Children, who attends to the steps Schutzengel and steps homes children in the afternoon with a wide range of tasks, has passed the „Junior Primary Education“ exam with distinction! This means he has received his teaching diploma for primary school
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Regina sings a gospel Regina, raised in a steps homes family in Gobabis, surprised us with a LIVE gospel performance. You can watch the full interview with Regina and Jackie from Gobabis in the steps COMMUNITY. TO THE INTERVIEW
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A corner for being happy Martha is one of our steps homes children. At the age of 14, due to a lack of prior schooling, she was initially placed in 2nd grade and didn’t feel comfortable at all. Now she has left school and is a trainee at our guesthouse in Gobabis. Here she feels at home, understood—and she does a
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Power of Locals This is the plan: to hand over responsibility for steps projects in Namibia to local people to an ever greater extent, so that we and our National Coordinator can then only be available as advisors and points of contact. Gobabis site management Gobabis Jackie Sanjath Welcome Jackie! We’re lucky to
A dynamic change in Gobabis At a virtual meeting with the team of steps for children Gobabis and the board members in Germany, Henk Olwage, founder of Light for the Children and a cooperation partner of steps for children since 2010, explained that he is shifting his focus to operational and organizational board work at the Trust Steps for Children Namibia
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