steps 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

The social pedagogue Christine Leege runs her own kindergarten in Norderstedt, which, as a KITA 21, teaches children environmentally conscious behaviour – she is an expert in her field. This is a great help at our project site in Gobabis, where she has now come to work for a few weeks for the sixth time. The teachers and employees of our partner project „Light

In the middle of December, Santiago, a teacher from our project in Gobabis, made his way to visit us in the far north. For the second time already, he visited Germany for two full weeks at the invitation of SUNI e.V. The non-profit association organizes exchange programs and provides networking. Through intercultural exchange, knowledge transfer and training opportunities

From a mushroom house to a classroom The need for classrooms to provide individual support for the children remains consistently high and should be covered as quickly as possible. The former oyster mushroom growing house in the steps for children – Light for the Children project complex in Gobabis was targeted for this purpose. In terms of size, it could provide the

A great idea was born in Gobabis: two students return from Namibia to Hamburg full of drive and set up a Fairtrade AG. Marie Schnaidt held a conversation for us with Paul Zeller and Jona Schües and has put together the exciting path the two of them took for us: In Gobabis, a small town in Namibia with 32.000

Worldwide to Gobabis Hannah Russ from Hesse has been volunteering at our Gobabis location since August 2017 through the BMZ weltwärts program, together with Lasse Schneider from Düsseldorf.  She also made friends among the children and young people in the afternoon care program, where she and Lasse helped with homework or provided tutoring in math and English. But Hannah did not learn