Without society accepting women in leadership positions, without education and access to qualified jobs, women have a hard time. Even in the future, nothing much will change without projects that encourage women to take on leadership roles and move into them.\u00a0\t\t<\/p>\n
We would like to tell you stories of 3 women here who inspire courage<\/h4>\n
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Business Lady \u2013 Jackie from Gobabis<\/h5>\n
\t\tJackie is the head of the steps carpentry workshop and administration in the projects of the foundation steps for children in Gobabis (Namibia). She took over responsibility for the steps guesthouse a year ago already. The guesthouse and the carpentry workshop are part of the foundation's income-generating projects, with the aim of becoming independent of donations in the long term! Business plans and tenders are no stranger to Jackie; she works very well with construction companies as well as with the employees and has managed to significantly increase the number of overnight stays at the guesthouse in a short space of time, and guests also like to return to Gobabis.
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Strong in the community \u2013 Kaunapawa from Okahandja<\/h5>\n
\t\tKauna is an exceptionally dedicated woman \u2013 she is the founder and head of the social project Ileni Tulikwafeni and the whole community is very close to her heart. Due to her strong commitment and her efforts for the poorer people of the town, she has now also been elected councillor of Okahandja (Namibia). steps for children is proud to have supported her project for over a year and, in addition to funding meals for almost 1,000 children every day, to have donated a chicken house complete with a solar incubator. So Meme Kauna, which means something like Mama Kauna, is now also the manager of a chicken house with partly more than 100 chickens. The chicks, eggs and chickens are sold and used in the project's own soup kitchen or in the soup kitchens of the other steps projects.\u00a0\u00a0
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Winterkleidung-OGH-Juni-2020-2.jpeg\")
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From computer school to project management \u2013 Markel from Rehoboth<\/h5>\n
Markel began her work as head of the computer school of the Otto Xamseb project supported by steps for children in Rehoboth, Namibia. The computer school was founded by the steps for children foundation as an income-generating project. To be able to offer customers even more knowledge, Markel completed a computer driving licence (ICDL) at the steps computer school in Gobabis. Shortly afterwards, Markel also took on the guardian angel programme for the children of the Otto Xamseb project and additionally looks after, supports and challenges the guardian angel children. With the guardian angel programme, the steps for children foundation promotes the education of talented girls and boys. At the beginning of 2020, steps for children took over the property, all buildings and overall responsibility for the project. In this context, Markel worked her way into accounting and eventually managed it herself.<\/p>\n
She is also considered a reliable contact person in this respect, and when steps also built additional school buildings and she managed the construction. When her aunt Josephine, the founder of the Otto Xamseb project, had to step down from project management for reasons of age, Markel was also available for this task. At just under 30 years old, Markel is the project manager and the superior of 8 female employees! A real organisational talent.<\/p>\n
\u00a0As the steps for children foundation, we would like to see and tell more of these stories. We want to change the distressing figures mentioned above.We are ready for sustainable change. Are you too?\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> Geschichten von 3 Frauen, die Mut machen Wie Frauen f\u00fcr eine bessere Zukunft k\u00e4mpfen. Zum Gro\u00dfteil kamen sie aus bitterer Armut, aus den sogenannten Informal Settlements in Namibia und Simbabwe. Nun k\u00f6nnen die 3 Frauen, die Mut machen, ihre Familien ern\u00e4hren und ihre Kinder zur Schule schicken. Die Geschichten handeln von Frauen, die in den […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informieren","category-steps-aktuell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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