Windhoek
Location Windhoek
Region
khomas
History
The poor district of Katutura was established in the 1950s as part of South Africa's apartheid policy. Here the black population was forcibly relocated.
today
Bitter poverty. Families live in tin or cardboard huts, households are set up at the lowest level.
Boomerang
Direction: Memory Kharuxas
History: Memory Kharuxas, founder and director, is a former Waldorf kindergarten teacher. She integrated her project with 65 children at the time on her private property and in her home. Since there is a high need for childcare in the neighborhood, she was looking for larger buildings.
Cooperation: November 2015 – December 2022
The larger building was found with steps for children and since January 2016 the rent of the current building and property (which is owned by the Waldorf school) has been taken over and secures the care costs of children whose parents cannot afford the contribution.
Effect: The foundation saves in one of the poorest parts of the city the Namibian capital, Katutura - which means "place where we don't want to live" - children a place of security with daily hot meals and early childhood loving education. steps creates better spatial conditions and increases the quality of teaching through further training.
Crèche, kindergarten, preschool, soup kitchen
New classrooms in Namibia The Kid-Care college in Katutura offers new educational spaces for children from the poorest backgrounds in Windhoek, Namibia....
From left Rautia Shikongo (teacher), Martin Schölling (National Coordinator Team), Secilie Ekandjo (cook) Single Quarter in Katutura In the poorest district of Windhoek,...
Friendship Day Today is Friendship Day. Three of our Guardian Angel children have been living since February of this year - you should ...
Stephan Hock, who moved to Windhoek with his family a few years ago, is currently developing a living cookbook: Together with a ...
Luise finally did it! She has arrived in the small remote town, a good 3 hours drive from the Namibian capital ...
Juliane Scheller worked for us as a volunteer at steps for children in Okakarara (Namibia) for two and a half months. The ...
[: en] A donor trip to our project areas offers sponsors the opportunity to take a closer look at the work on site. Up close, nine ...
[: de] Hannah Russ and Lasse Schneider are our new weltwärts volunteers in Gobabis and have been supporting the project since August for a ...
[:de] On Friday, August 4th, 2017, Mr. Wolfgang Brune from Lilienthal showed in the summer garden of the restaurant "Bahnhof Neu St. Jürgen" in Worpswede...
Memory, how did you come up with the name Boomerang?
I have always enjoyed working with children and also a lot with their parents. I thought if I spread and gave my love, that it would come back and make me strong, myself and the children in school.