Addressing a food crisis in Namibia through the expansion and construction of soup kitchens This year, drought has hit Namibia especially hard – but even in the previous years there were repeated crises, such as the global, almost 2-year-long COVID-19 pandemic, the worldwide rise in energy and food prices, prolonged drought periods and […]
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Winter begins in Namibia With the onset of winter in Namibia, we have started distributing warm blankets and winter clothing to our steps children and young people. Nights in the huts are very cold, and there is a lack of insulation or a sufficiently thick mattress and blankets. Our priority is to ensure that they, during this cold season
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Many children do not know their own country Many children in Namibia who grow up on the outer fringes of society in informal settlements hardly have the opportunity to explore their own country due to their living conditions. Some children have never been to the capital Windhoek, others have never even been to the next largest town. Only our numerous guardian angels from
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German schlager star Peter Wackel is supporting the construction of a school for the education of the poorest children and young people in Namibia. The school building is inaugurated on 8 April 2022. The school building was built for the community project Ileni Tulikwafeni of the Namibian town of Okahandja, 65 km north of the capital Windhoek. Peter Wackel has
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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
The chicken coop in Okahandja, Namibia Location: Suburb of Okahandja, NamibiaPartner project: Ileni TulikwafeniLeader: Meme Kauna Kauna looks after the solar-powered incubator here. She has experience with chickens because she also breeds chickens privately. Income supports education The project……was founded in 2006 by Kauna as a community project. The name „Ileni Tulikwafeni“ means „Come all and let’s“
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The marathon chickens move in In Okahandja, the almost 100 square metre chicken coop was completed in the last few days before the coronavirus pandemic. Eggs are hatched using an incubator, some of the chicks are then sold, some are reared as laying hens or sold as larger chickens. As soon as the border to South Africa is open again, a larger incubator and
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When one door closes, somewhere else a window opens—ideally even in the same place. Goodbye Okahandja Samaritans—hello „Ileni Tulikwafeni – House of hope and trust“. After six years of working together with the partner organization Okahandja Samaritans, we are now parting ways. The Samaritans will continue their small project and are grateful
[:de] The auction item, the impressive artistic works by the students from classes 5, 6 and 7 as well as from the art profile course (upper grades) at the Christianeum under the direction of Inga Beyer, could be admired on display boards in the Elbe shopping center as early as two weeks before the auction: oil paintings, drawings, right up to the graffiti—of consistently high artistic quality
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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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