steps in Gobabis

Solar ovens for our project partners in Rehoboth

Due to a generous donation from the Netherlands, we were able to present each of our two project partners, Heart for the Children and Otto Gamseb, with a solar oven. The female staff and children are excited to try out the widest variety of dishes with the ovens. By producing and distributing the solar ovens from our carpentry workshop in Gobabis, we create important jobs. The income from […]

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Training by UNAM lecturer

Isabella Ueitele, lecturer at the University of Namibia (UNAM), was in Gobabis for two days and gave another training on the growing and cultivation of our mushrooms. We are improving our methods steadily and are achieving ever better harvests.      [:en] Isabella Ueitele, lecturer at the University of Namibia (UNAM), was in Gobabis for two days and gave further training on the growing and cultivation of our mushrooms.

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Great help: Replenishment for our solar oven production

[:de] The printing company NEEF + STUMME premium printing has, through its socially responsible business commitment, ensured that solar oven production in our carpentry workshop in Gobabis is progressing speedily. The donation of several hundred used printing plates from offset printing provides, for our income-generating step and the carpentry workshop, an important basis for the oven production,

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Solar ovens for all steps projects

I’m now back in Germany, but I would like to report on an event afterwards. Henk Olwage, project manager in Gobabis, demonstrated at the project managers’ meeting in Okahandja the use of the solar ovens produced in the carpentry workshop in Gobabis.   Each steps project now receives a solar oven for testing. On the one hand, this is intended to save energy costs, and on the other, to use the solar ovens

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International Day of the Environment

Since 1972, the „International Day for the Environment“ has been observed every year on 5 June. All over the world, a wide variety of events, talks, actions and measures take place on this day in order to raise awareness, among other things, of the importance of handling natural resources in a sustainable way. Sustainability is also a key topic for steps for children in carrying out our work.

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Health check in Gobabis

[:en] During the last school holidays, the first health check-ups were carried out with 25 children, which are to take place regularly from now on. The Ministry of Health is providing two nurses to examine the children and to sensitise and educate them about their bodies. [:en] In the last school holidays the first health check-ups with

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Read is fun

[:de] On Monday of the last school week before the holidays, Luise Berkholz and Paula Scharfe took their pre-school class to the new library in Gobabis. Many of the children had never been there before, so it was the first time they had ever entered such a large building. And there were soooo many children’s books! The staff

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