steps in Okakarara

You have to be fearless to do it In Okakarara, Sonja Schneider-Waterberg and her team have found a solution for the greenhouse cover: with a long extendable ladder, the cover can be screwed back onto the greenhouse. A real feat of strength – because you have to be fearless! But now the cover is back in place again, almost as nice as before […]

Stormy days in the vegetable garden Despite everything, something is still happening in the projects: In our vegetable garden in Ongombombonde, there is still plenty to do for all employees, the sown vegetables are growing and thriving. However, in the last stormy days, the covering of the large greenhouse has been partially lifted. The biggest challenge now is, the covering

An update on the steps vegetable garden The winter vegetables are coming to an end. Tomatoes, peppers, watermelons and honey melons, as well as pumpkins, have been sown or are currently being transplanted. The employees who look after and tend the vegetable garden in Ongombombonde are highly motivated and are facing the biggest challenge right now: large swarms of quelea red-billed finches flying over the fields in huge flocks and

Happy vegetables ask for help with sales The vegetable garden at this location in the immediate vicinity of our preschools has previously supplied the soup kitchens there with vegetables. The vegetables were only sold when there was a short-term surplus of one type of vegetable. Setbacks in agriculture, as many will know, are not uncommon. The extremely dry air, the drought of the

Carina, weltwärts volunteer 2019/20 in Okakarara, talks here about her almost full year in Namibia and answers our questions in a short interview. How did you feel the day after your arrival? A mixture of disbelief, respect, excitement and confusion moved me. However, I only really realised that I had returned a few weeks later. Quite

Idwal Jones has been translating German texts into English for steps for children since 2014 and has read a lot about steps' activities. Last year he, his wife Gabriele and his daughter Lisa decided to go on holiday to Namibia and work in a steps project for a few days. In July 2019

A new building block for the preschool in Okakarara Until now, the preschool for 5- to 7-year-old children taught numbers, letters and basic English vocabulary through play and many exercises as well as songs. It was repeatedly observed on the playground and in the classrooms, even among older children, that there was a lack of emotional

The Liesberg family traveled to our steps project in Okakarara and Ongomombonde for four days in March and did not miss the opportunity to help out themselves. Mother Eva devoted herself to the artistic design of the classrooms together with the steps students. Together they created a wonderful picture that now adorns the wall and makes lessons even more

Yvonne Tjongarero has worked as a preschool teacher since 2017 at the steps for children kindergarten in Okakarara. Her heart is with the girls and boys who, in some cases, already come to steps at nursery age. With a lot of patience and warmth, she supports their age-appropriate development, their curiosity, and their natural drive to acquire skills and knowledge. Yvonne is

Sabine Bohlen-Roß is our Senior Expert for teacher training: During each stay, training sessions and workshops were held on basic educational knowledge and the practical application of the knowledge learned. Important then and now, however, is also the repeated necessary, child-friendly design of the rooms and school grounds as well as the sensible structuring of the lesson and daily schedules. © Andreas Roß, Okakarara