{"id":39851,"date":"2018-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steps.eliasarndt.de\/emma-in-okakarara\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T22:00:00","slug":"emma-in-okakarara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/emma-in-okakarara\/","title":{"rendered":"A completely different life \u2013 Emma in Okakarara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Thomas Sbampato<\/p>\n<h2>A completely different life \u2013 Emma in Okakarara<\/h2>\n<p>I am Emma. From the beginning of July until the end of August 2018, I lived with three other volunteers in Okakarara, Namibia, and there supported the steps for children project in the ECD\/Kindergarten\/Preschool, the After School Care, in the office and in the sewing workshop.<\/p>\n<p>It was a varied and diverse job. Every day I was faced with a new challenge, which we always managed to overcome in some way with the help of our wonderful and committed colleagues. Whether it was the frequent water outage, a faulty power line or the language barrier with the little ones, I learned that with patience and creativity almost any difficulty can be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>In the two months in <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namibia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Namibia<\/a> I was able to gain numerous experiences, such as how important independence is and taking responsibility. I was also able to get to know a completely different life and hope that I was able to leave my little footprint at steps in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/inform\/standorte\/projekte-in-namibia\/okakarara\/\">Okakarara<\/a> behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Many thanks, dear Emma, for your committed support in our steps project in Okakarara!<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Thomas Sbampato Ein ganz anderes Leben \u2013 Emma in Okakarara Ich bin Emma. Von Anfang Juli bis Ende August 2018 lebte ich mit drei anderen Freiwilligen in Okakarara, Namibia und habe dort das Projekt steps for children in der ECD\/Kindergarten\/Vorschule, der After School Care, im Office und in der N\u00e4hwerkstatt unterst\u00fctzt. Es war eine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informieren","category-steps-aktuell","category-steps-in-okakarara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}