IN DEEP SORRY
In deep sorrow we say goodbye to Milly Bock, our project manager in Rehoboth.
With deep sorrow and with a heavy heart we must tell you that Melvyrine Bock after severe Covid illness on June 28, 2021 died. We are shaken and mourn the loss of our project manager from Rehoboth, who will leave a big gap in her husband, her children and grandchildren, colleagues and all steps children.
We have been working with Milly since 2013
Melvyrine was a strong, determined and socially committed woman who we have worked with since 2013. She coordinated our partner projects Heart for the Children (until 2019) and Otto Xamseb, Since the end of 2017 we have also been a project partner of the social project she founded Bridge of Hope. This consists of a kindergarten, a pre-school and a private elementary school and takes in children whose parents can afford this school as well as children whose parents cannot afford the monthly school fees. In addition, she devotedly took care of 11 steps guardian angel children.
Milly worried about the project's own, but also about children from the surrounding slums. With the soup kitchen newly built by steps for children in 2019, she also offered daily warm meals for hundreds of external children in order to save them from famine.
She supported the head of the project Otto Xamseb Active in the bookkeeping and also managed our apartment buildings in Rehoboth, which generate income for our social steps projects.
We will miss her big heart
Milly always put the well-being of others before her own well-being and was also very involved in the community. We will Melvyrine's big heart, very much miss her trusting, cheerful and reliable manner, her feeling for the concerns of the Namibian communities. As an active partner at steps for children, we will miss her very much and leave a large gap that we cannot fill.
We would like to express our condolences to her husband, children and the entire family. In the midst of grief, we wish them to find what Milly has worked for all the days of their lives: A bridge of hope. A hope that helps us all overcome the darkness and pain of these days and weeks and lets us look into the future.
As a Steps for children foundation we will provide financial support for the funeral, firewood and food to the bereaved of the deceased instead of flower arrangements. If you would like to participate, we offer the possibility here:
