Jörg Meyer zu Strohe, co-founder and co-owner of PlanET Biogastechnik GmbH, visited our partner schools in Nairobi in 2018 as part of a travel group and was touched and inspired by our work. Even then, we were rewarded with a generous donation from PlanET at Christmas. At the [...]
For his master's thesis as an architecture student, Oliver van Malm developed a hollow building block (TwistBlock) that can be assembled Lego-like into buildings with comfortable room temperatures and, if necessary, disassembled again. It is affordable and easy to manufacture, and round walls cause [...]
Jerusa Muthoni, aka Maggie, has been working in the Nyendo-Office in Nairobi since June 2023. She became aware of nyendo through her daily interactions with Irmgard as her personal fitness trainer. One day, Irmgard requested Maggie to do outside catering at her Oseki farm, and this is where Maggie [...]
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 2022. We contacted THE DANCE FACTORY KENYA and succeeded in [...]
The Freie Waldorfschule Rosenheim once again held a big summer party with the school community in July! The student company Upendo Tamu had a big stand where waffles were baked, coffee was served, homemade elderberry lemonade and handicrafts from Kenya were sold. The students of the student company brought [...]
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 into the courtyard/garden with a kitchen in the back, group [...]
