We provide training and invest in team building

22 August 2023

We provide training and invest in team building

Further education and training are important when one wants to develop as a team, but above all as a foundation and project. That is why we promote and encourage this: We provide training and invest in team building.

Team spirit and workshop in Gobabis

After a Fun day for team building at the site Gobabis, which took place in June with games and discussion rounds…

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…a joint workshop followed in July. Teachers from the afternoon classes, staff from the guesthouse and the carpentry workshop, as well as the project manager and a member of the National Coordinator Team worked together on a plan to standardise processes within the project and create more sustainable structures.

from left to right: Aletta Makono, afternoon classes for the youngest Schutzengel children, Jackie Sanjath, project manager Gobabis, Schutzengel teacher in the afternoon, Sophia Lubbe, Schutzengel teacher in the afternoon for the younger children, Manfred Haoseb, Schutzengel teacher for the teenagers in the afternoon, Santos Joas, National Coordinator Team

You can of course meet the team during a visit to Gobabis on your next Namibia tour. In our Guest houses, where we have now created ten more rooms through the new building, you can spend fantastic days and get to know the country and its people as well as our facility.

Leadership workshop in Okakarara

In the last week of July 2023, a meeting of project managers took place in Okakarara. Project managers from steps for children from our locations in Namibia came together: Okakarara, Rehoboth, Okahandja, Gobabis and Windhoek. The meeting, which was officially opened by project manager Sonja Schneider-Waterberg, offered an opportunity for exchange and learning. The team leaders reviewed what had been decided in the previous year and considered which activities already work well and which still need to be implemented this year.

An inspiring learning environment – the classroom for the preschool in Okakarara with items made by the children.

Volunteer Pauline Fesser also leads part of the tour of the facility with the team and gives insights into the way it works.

In the art room: a resource for developing the children’s interest in art.

Some team members are chatting during the lunch break.

Even more interesting was the fact that the meeting for the team leaders in Okakarara and Ongombombonde (in our vegetable garden) gave the various site teams of steps for children the opportunity to learn more about the activities in Okakarara, the first facility and thus the founding project. Sonja and her team took time to welcome the other teams and show them their facility and the activities.