steps in Okakarara

[:en] Our cooks Adelhuid and Taree from the soup kitchen in Okakarara have given us two delicious recipes that not only the steps kids love. The children often have to leave home on an empty stomach. At steps for children, they can look forward to a balanced meal prepared with lots of love, which helps them to feel better in the

[:de] Our long-standing supporter Birgit Eckert, a teacher at the Himmelblau daycare centre, was asked by Pastor Peter Fahr of the Cantate Church Duvenstedt to speak about her volunteer work under the motto “Live. Love. Laugh.”  Birgit presented steps for children and her work in Okakarara 2015 in words and pictures on Saturday evening and was invited once again to the service on Sunday to

[:de] Doro and Leonie are the new weltwärts volunteers in Okakarara and joined the project in mid-August. Here they report on how their week is going: This week, of course, there was sport in the mornings again and today there were really lots of children (almost 40). After our usual start (running around the house, balancing, jumping, circles) we did some

[:de] Marlene Lautze and Rainer Preuß are using 10 weeks of their sabbatical year together to get involved with steps for children in Okakarara. Both came to steps through a former student of Mrs Lautze, Johannes Vogelsang, who completed a volunteer placement in Okakarara from 2010 to 2011 through weltwärts. The two have been there for a fortnight now

[:de] Trade fair? What? If you’re asking yourselves that question too, you’re not the only ones. We reacted the same way when we first heard about it. Yet the Trade Fair is well known throughout Namibia, which is why our guesthouse has been fully booked for a long time! Here comes the explanation: a trade fair can be thought of as

[:de] Last weekend the Alafia festival took place again in Altona, where we from steps for children traditionally took part. We were able to give interested visitors information about the foundation’s work in Namibia and also sold products from our income-generating step sewing workshop in Okakarara, which went down very well. After Saturday initially

[:de] Since 2015, the student company Küchenzauber – BBS II Delmenhorst has actively supported us through various fundraising campaigns, e.g. by selling African food or through student activities (providing information and raising donations) in Delmenhorst city centre. The two educators, Hilke Friedrich and Ulrike Richter, were recently travelling in Namibia and also visited our steps project in Okakarara. Here

[:de] Heroes’ Day is celebrated annually on 26 August and commemorates the Namibian War of Independence, which began on 26 August 1966. For steps for children, Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua is a hero, because as chairman of the trust steps for children in Namibia he is an important partner for the work on site. Festus Tjikuua was born in Okakarara