{"id":40093,"date":"2021-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steps.eliasarndt.de\/chilifan\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:00:00","slug":"chilifan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/chilifan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilifan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vegetable farming at steps in Namibia<\/a><\/h2>\n

At our project location Okakarara, there is in the neighbouring village of Ongombombonde\u00a0since 2014<\/strong>\u00a0a vegetable cultivation area of over 1,000 sq m. Mostly under shade nets, but also out in the open, all sorts of things grow here: carrots, cabbage, beetroot and spinach. There are also peppers and chilli, melons and onions. But chilli in particular grows well here.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the salaries of the staff in the vegetable garden are now financed through the sale of the vegetables \u2013 unlike at the start of the project.
\nThe vegetables that are not sold are used by steps\u2019 own soup kitchen in Okakarara to prepare fresh meals for the children and young people.
\nFor steps, even after paying out the salaries, there is still a reserve to finance new seedlings, seeds, fertiliser and gardening materials.
\nThe surplus from the harvest is sold to guest farms and the surrounding population.<\/p>\n

Since<\/strong> 2019 <\/strong>trees have been grown in a new greenhouse, which are to be sold later. Organic cultivation is also planned.<\/p>\n

The old building of the sewing room from Okakarara is moving to Ongombombonde and will then serve a new purpose: it is being converted into living and storage space. Our vegetable garden, where cabbage, beetroot and maize are grown among other things, is located in Ongombombonde, 8 kilometres away.Thanks to Hendrik<\/strong>\u00a0vegetable farming has been going wonderfully. There are hardly any losses any more and we trust Hendrik and his plans to expand the cultivation areas and also to\u00a0hire more employees<\/strong> . This will create additional jobs and also provide more vegetables and plants for sale and for the soup kitchens.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Chilli grows well in Namibia \u2013 says chilli fan Hendrik<\/h2>\n


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Some employees\u00a0come from villages far away<\/strong>\u00a0to Ongombombonde, which is why additional living quarters are needed. We now want to build these with the materials from the previous sewing room.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gem\u00fcseanbau bei steps in Namibia An unserem Projektstandort Okakarara gibt es im Nachbarort Ongombombonde\u00a0seit 2014\u00a0eine Gem\u00fcseanbaufl\u00e4che von \u00fcber 1.000 qm. Meist unter Schattennetzen, aber auch im un\u00fcberdacht w\u00e4chst hier allerhand: Mohrr\u00fcben, Kohl, Rote Beete und Spinat. Auch Paprika und Chili sind dabei, Melonen und Zwiebeln. Aber besonders Chili gedeihen hier gut. Inzwischen wird das Gehalt […]<\/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-40093","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\/40093","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=40093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}