[:en] Thank you very much for the donated swing in Okakarara from ICON IMMOBILIEN GmbH; the company has been supporting steps since 2014 with its hands-on help on various projects and initiatives. The swing has been extremely popular with the children in our steps project since the very first minute! [:en] Thank you very much for the donated swing in […]
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[:en] Celebrating 10 years of steps for children and winning a flight ticket to Windhoek On 11 March 2016, steps for children celebrated its 10th anniversary in Okakarara. On 17 June 2016, people will also celebrate in Hamburg at the Privathotel Lindtner—the people who, over the past years, have contributed so much to this success: the donors, supporters, volunteers, ambassadors and companions on the way
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[:de] For several years, Drost-Rose-Realschule Lippstadt in NRW has been supporting the Secondary School in Okakarara as a partner school (soccer jerseys, book donations, donations through a sponsored run). Namibian colleagues have already been guests in Lippstadt three times. Now teacher Carsten Hesse, together with his students, has also collected donations for our steps project in Okakarara. During his current visit, he has
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[:de] Blow out eggs and then decorate them? Not every child knows this, and that’s why our volunteers, Katharina and Sophia, introduced this tradition in Okakarara: „In Okakarara, we organised a small Easter party with some of our afternoon children (Grades 4+5). We wanted to bring a bit of German tradition to Namibia, so we bought eggs, carefully poked two holes in them and
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[:de] The preschool, a social step that serves the education and upbringing of the children. In 2006, we started the preschool with 30 children. Since January 2011, every year up to 80 children aged 5 to 7 have been coming to school on five mornings per week. There, the children learn and play together,
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[:de] Especially for teaching at all grade levels, the training and further education of our teachers is indispensable. [maxbutton id=“15″] In 2006, we started the preschool in Okakkarara with 30 children. Since January 2011, every year up to 80 children aged 5 to 7 have been coming to school on five mornings per week. There
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[:de] The computer schools in Okakarara and Gobabis, with their internet cafés, help to make the projects sustainable and independent of donations. Handling programmes is just as possible in Namibia as anywhere else on earth. The prerequisite is the equipment, appropriate internet access and people who pass on their knowledge. [maxbutton id=“7″] [maxbutton id=“8″]
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[:en] In 2014, we built a chicken coop in Okakarara—first there was a hen, and then the egg. Currently, we want to create more positions in the area of gardening and vegetable cultivation, and we urgently need funds to pay wages at the beginning and to carry out the further expansion with the goal of becoming independent of donations. Help us
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[:en] »Where angels dwell, there is heaven—even amid the commotion of the world.« HAFIS, Persian mystic (c. 1320 – 1388) Even the children in Namibia would like to throw themselves into the commotion of the world, make their dreams come true, and have the chance to live a self-determined life. But they need a guardian angel for that! Since 2008, our guardian angels have been helping with
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[:en] In both cases, a garage was where it all began. On 11 March 2006, we started in a vacant building in Okakarara, Namibia, with a sewing room in the garage and a preschool with a soup kitchen. Ten years after the first step, on 11 March 2016, there will be a celebration in Okakarara for the anniversary. That’s why we would like to invite you— as a countdown— to our anniversary celebration with a small
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