steps in Okakarara

One Should Be Free from Vertigo In Okakarara, Sonja Schneider-Waterberg and her team found a solution in the garden for the greenhouse cover: With a long extendable ladder, the cover can be screwed back onto the greenhouse.  A feat of strength – because one has to be free from vertigo! But now the cover is almost as beautiful 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 honeydew melons, as well as pumpkins, have been sown or are currently being transplanted. The staff who tend and cultivate the vegetable garden in Ongombombonde are highly motivated and facing the biggest challenge at the moment: large flocks of red-billed queleas, which fly 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, a weltwärts volunteer in Okakarara in 2019/20, reports here on 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 stirred within me. However, I only truly realized 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 So far, at the preschool, numbers, letters and basic English vocabulary have been taught to the 5 – 7-year-old children through play and with lots of exercises and songs. A lack of emotional was repeatedly observed in the playground and in the classrooms, even among older children

The Liesberg family travelled to our steps project in Okakarara and Ongomombonde for four days in March and did not miss the opportunity to lend a hand 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 much

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