New classrooms for Bethel Community Center
Another project was realized at the Bethel Community Center with donations from the student companies in Prien and Rosenheim. Immaculate Lumasayi Chimwani is the founder and principal of this school. She looks after around 76 pupils over there. Immaculate: [...]
Rainwater collection system for the Kanyorosha Self Help School
Climate change is affecting Kenya too. The rainy seasons are no longer as regular as they used to be and when it does rain, it is often particularly heavy. There are usually long periods of drought in between. As [...]
Launch an IT class at the Kangemi Youth Center
It all began in 2019 when Irmgard Wutte met Magdalena Wanjugu, the director of the NairoBits Trust. NairoBits is a non-profit organization active in Nairobi since 1999 that teaches ambitious young people from underprivileged backgrounds IT, promotes their entrepreneurial [...]
Happy Hour Education Center – Property boundary and entrance gate
The school grounds were inadequately secured with simple corrugated iron sheets. Two alternatives were up for discussion. A real wall made of twist blocks (approx. €2,300) or elements made of sturdy metal (approx. €520). Together with the student companies, [...]
Evemon Education Center – A new kitchen and renovation of the classrooms
The school kitchen at the Evemon Education Center previously consisted of a small, low room. The food for the pupils and teachers was prepared with firewood on three stones on the floor. Before [...]
A new office building for the Sweet Angels Self Help School
The Sweet Angels Self Help still had funds of around € 1,700 from donations made by the Waldorf School in Frankfurt am Main in 2019, which could not be used due to the coronavirus lockdown. In fall 2023, our [...]
Happy Hour Self Help School: Renovation of classroom and toilet
The classrooms and toilet were in a very poor state due to a fire. Our employee Brenda Kavili suggested building three classrooms with the Twist Blocks from Start Somewhere, extending the existing toilet, renovating the leaking roof and leveling [...]
Evemon Education Center – new rainwater drainage and sidewalk
The schoolyard and the classrooms at the Evemon Education Center were repeatedly flooded during the annual rainy season. Together with our new partner from Start Somewhere Brenda Kavili, the principal Everlyn Kimani and the landlord of the property, we [...]
Evemon Education Center: 14 new school desks
On the occasion of her 70th birthday, our volunteer Jasmine Reischl asked her guests for donations for nyendo. The donation of €600 was used to support the Evemon Education Center. Due to a lack of school desks, the [...]
Strengthening a fence at the Kangemi Youth Center
The property of the Kangemi Youth Center is located on one side of a river and was only protected by a weak fence or not at all. The school garden is also located in this [...]
Skylife Children Center: Renovation Works
The Louise von Rothschild School Frankfurt am Main had transferred proceeds from its student company to the Skylife Children Center in 2019 and 2020, but these could not be used immediately due to the coronavirus lockdown, meaning that around [...]
The Amapiano Dance Project
The idea of organizing something completely different from school for the children in the informal settlements of Nairobi, namely a dance course, was born during a visit by our Nyendo-Family-Members to Kenya in autumn [...]
A Nyendo Hub in Kangemi Slum
Years ago I let my imagination run wild and drew a meeting center like I could imagine on the property of our partner school KYS: an open meeting room that leads [...]
New and stronger fence for Kangemi Youth Centre
Old fence at the back oft he school building The school building of the Kangemi Youth Center was only inadequately secured at the back by a low and already very dilapidated fence. Unauthorized persons gained access, disrupted lessons, [...]
A copy store at Evemon School
A copy store at Evemon School Ramsey at work on new EPSON printer At Evemon School, in the summer of 2022, it was recognized that there was not enough supply of printing services in the local market. [...]
16,000-liter water tank for Love School junior
In the summer of 2022, Veronicah Nduku, the director of the two Love Schools, asked us to install a water tank at the Love School junior. In this school - as in almost all schools in the slum [...]
Drinking water for the students of the Kanyorosha Self Help School
The installation of a larger water tank with a capacity of 10,000 liters in November 2021 could help. On the part of NYENDO this project was supported with 740,00 €. Now even drinking water can be sold to the [...]
Fire and Vandalism at Love School senior
The night of fire The Love School senior in the Kawangware slum in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of nyendo's oldest partner schools. It was founded in 2003 by Veronicah Nduku to help children infected with HIV. In October [...]