{"id":40224,"date":"2025-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steps.eliasarndt.de\/projektreise-namibia-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:03:53","slug":"project-trip-namibia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/projektreise-namibia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Project trip Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project trip Namibia<\/h2>\n

At the beginning of April, our founder Dr. Michael Hoppe and board member Andreas Ro\u00df traveled to Namibia to visit the six project sites of our organization. The trip was all about exchange, further development and qualitative improvement for the sustainable future development of our projects on site.<\/p>\n

steps Namibia<\/h3>\n

It was especially pleasing to work together with our National Coordinator Sonja Schneider-Waterberg and the local teams to set important personnel priorities for the coming years and thus secure the basis for successful project work. Sonja\u2019s team is being steadily expanded with qualified staff who take care of administrative and bookkeeping tasks in the steps Office in Windhoek, but also organize training and continuing education for our caregivers and teachers to ensure the best possible support for the steps children and young people. An important step toward improving quality and relieving our National Coordinator of her extensive duties.<\/p>\n

steps Gobabis<\/h3>\n

Another highlight of the trip was the inspection of the completed construction project in Gobabis, which will soon be put into operation as a new income-generating step and will benefit the local people. Read more here: Trainee Home Gobabis<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the left you can see the exterior facade designed in steps colors, and on the right one of the multi-bed rooms.<\/p>\n

And another construction project in Gobabis<\/a> was decided upon: the former PC school and carpentry workshop in Gobabis will be converted into another social step: a new preschool is being created. The ideas for the planned conversion to create additional learning rooms as well as for the planned new soup kitchen for external children who suffer from malnutrition and live in particularly needy circumstances were concretized on this trip together with an architect and builder.<\/p>\n

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Together with an architect, the plans for the soup kitchen 
and the conversion of the PC school as well as the former carpentry workshop are being discussed. <\/p>\n

steps Ongombombonde<\/h3>\n

The plot in Ongombombonde, which we have been cultivating with a garden<\/a> since the project began and on which a kindergarten and a preschool have been established, has now been leased to the steps for children foundation by the municipality for the next 99 years in full. This opens up new possibilities\u2014for example, to obtain water through a borehole and further expand the garden.<\/p>\n

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Andreas Ro\u00df in vegetable cultivation in Ongombombonde \u2013 in the background are the pigs, which in a mobile enclosure ensure that the soil on the cultivation area is dug over and fertilized at the same time.<\/p>\n

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The fence around the property was renewed to keep animals out of the vegetable garden.<\/p>\n

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13 years ago, a tree was planted here on the steps grounds in Okakarara \u2013 today it provides valuable shade!<\/p>\n

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A meeting with the entire team in Okakarara. steps for children is still one of the largest employers here in the region.<\/p>\n

steps Rehoboth<\/h3>\n

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In Rehoboth, the renovation of the soup kitchen could be completed, so that even more children can now be cared for.<\/p>\n

This project trip provided valuable insights into the progress and challenges, and once again showed how important direct exchange with the Namibian team on site is. With many new ideas and inspiration in our luggage, we are returning and look forward to implementing the next steps together with the steps teams in Germany, Namibia and our cooperation partners.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Projektreise Namibia Anfang April reisten unser Gr\u00fcnder Dr. Michael Hoppe und Vorstandsmitglied Andreas Ro\u00df nach Namibia, um die sechs Projektstandorte unserer Organisation zu besuchen. Die Reise stand ganz im Zeichen des Austauschs, der Weiterentwicklung und qualitativen Verbesserung f\u00fcr eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung unserer Projekte vor Ort. steps Namibia Besonders erfreulich war es, gemeinsam mit unser Nationalen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40990,"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":"set","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-40224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informieren","category-steps-aktuell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224","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=40224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40991,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224\/revisions\/40991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepsforchildren.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}