Visiting Kangemi – an enrichment for everyone
In April, guests came to nyendo in Kenya. Four visitors from Europe and even India stayed with us, accompanied by two German filmmakers, to thank for some great pictures. The tour took [...]
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 [...]
8 Questions to Brenda Kavili
Since November, our team in Nairobi has been strengthened by our new colleague Brenda Kavili. Brenda is a great support for Maggie and our nyendo office in Nairobi. What’s more: as an architect, she is able to give our [...]
The best time of life – in the slums of Nairobi
This is what Christoph Fischer, a former Nyendo employee, wrote about the months he spent with us in Kenya in 2015. Christoph had a background as an art teacher at Waldorf schools. When he came to Africa in 2015, [...]
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 [...]
Nyendo Retreat 2024: A retrospective from a student company
All members of the nyendo.lernen network met on Fraueninsel at the end of January, 2024. 17 young people from the school company "Upendo Tamu" from Rosenheim and 14 young people from the Prien school company [...]
Nyendo Retreat 2024
Far away but still very close The nyendo retreat is an important event for everyone during the year. At the end of January, 31 pupils from Rosenheim and Prien and their coaches met on [...]
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 [...]
Advent markets of our school companies
Advent market in Prien At the Advent market of our school on November 24, 2023, we from nyendo Prien sold various items in a separate room. These included popcorn, samosas, a Kenyan rice dish and jewelry, bags, CDs [...]
Project visit by our board member Esin Bozyazi
Our long-standing advisory board member Esin Bozyazi came to Kenya and Uganda from 19 to 29 November. She wanted to get a personal impression of our nyendo collaboration with our partners in Nairobi and wrote [...]
Facts for friends
On October 24, 2023, an online exchange of all Nyendo members from Kenya and Germany took place once again via the platform Discord. The Prien food for food student company presented its activities and the [...]
Special thanks to the jubilee guests of PlanET
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 [...]
German Start Somewhere team visiting Kenya
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 [...]