Visiting our neighbors, the Massai
Visiting our neighbors, the Massai On September 1, 2020 By the time it was finally my turn to introduce myself, it was already 14.30 o‘clock. Our introduction to the Masai community on the south side of the [...]
Irmgard’s visit to Nairobits at the Mukuru Kwa Reuben Center
Irmgard's visit to Nairobits at the Mukuru Kwa Reuben Center Nairobits is a non-profit organization that brings education to the underprivileged youth in the slum who have completed their schooling. With this local initiative Nyendo wants to take [...]
Nyendo congratulates Margret Rasfeld
Nyendo congratulates Margret Rasfeld Co-founder of "Schule im Aufbruch"* On November 15, Margret Rasfeld won the "Aufbruch Award 2020" as an encourager, world-changer and great future optimist in the field of education! When her [...]
Change means: from petitioner to entrepreneur!
Change means: From petitioner to entrepreneur! Interim report from Nairobi, August 2020 Dear Nyendo Community, the tsunami of global change hit us hard with the lockdown in mid-March and "washed me and my daughter and grandchild" to [...]
What happened to our “Corona Special”?
What happened to our "Corona Special"? Our Nyendo student companies were not idle even during the Corona lockdown, and promoted the "Corona Special" in their environment. As a result, a total of €10,279 has been raised in the [...]
Solar Learning and Design Thinking in Nairobi
Solar Learning and Design Thinking in Nairobi We at solar learning e.V. are happy to develop a product around solar energy for the people in Nairobi together with "Nyendo globales Lernen". Since April 2020 we have been meeting [...]
Five things that Nyendo does different from classic volunteer services
"What we experienced there will stay with us all our lives." Digging wells, looking after orphans or building schools? What many volunteer programs in Africa do is certainly well-intentioned. But is it also sustainable? We at [...]
Nyendo-Report Nairobi – September 2020
Nyendo-Report Nairobi - September 2020 Covid-19 pandemic – consequences for most schools As the world is now adapting to new changes brought up by the covid-19 pandemic, most developing countries are struggling to keep pace with these [...]
From caterpillar to butterfly
From caterpillar to butterfly Inuka Sasa 2.0 – sustainable change for our partner schools in Kenya Once set in motion, change can no longer be stopped In nature, change is something that happens all by itself: A [...]
Nyendo goes ZOOM
Nyendo goes ZOOM At nyendo.lernen there are video conferences not only at corona times. This time, on 27.4.2020, Alexander, Jasmine, Dorit, Stefanie, Susanne and Brigitte talked about the preparation of the ZOOM conference of student companies on 28.4. [...]
Online-meeting on 5 April 2020
Online-meeting on 5 April 2020 On 5 April 2020 an online meeting between the Nyendo team in Germany and the Headmasters took place in Nairobi. The valuable contributions of nyendo to the self-help schools for children in the [...]
Nyendo students visiting the slum
Nyendo students visiting the slum After working for two years in the student company Jamii at the Freie Waldorfschule Evinghausen, Tom Silas Piecha undertook a project trip to Kenya with five other Nyendo students from Prien am Chiemsee. [...]
December 2019 – January 2020: Project visit Kenya
On the picture: Irmgard W. and Peter Halloway in Sekem 1 December 2019 - January 2020: Project visit Kenya “It always seems impossible until it’s done” Nelson Mandela Dear friends, On the outbound flight with a [...]
Report from the Nyendo Team Day on 7.12.2019
Report from the Nyendo Team Day on 7.12.2019 Our Team Day 2019 began with a round of introductions to the team, which has fortunately grown considerably in the meantime, and a comparison of expectations. To experience so many [...]
Green oasis in the slum – the school garden of the Five Star School
Green oasis in the slum - the school garden of the Five Star School The example of the school garden at the Five Star School shows how well the schools in the slum understand how to integrate important [...]
The valuable work of the student companies
The valuable work of the student companies December is Christmas month. This can also be noticed in our student companies. In Rosenheim, Prien, Chemnitz and also Ybbs, Advent markets were prepared. Those are a good opportunity for [...]
Travelogue from Kenya 2019, Mia McCain
Travelogue from Kenya 2019, Mia McCain Every year school groups from Germany visit their partner schools in Nairobi. In 2019 the visit took place during the Easter holidays and, as in previous years, generated great enthusiasm on both [...]
Nyendo work at the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt
Nyendo work at the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt Thanks to the visit of Dr. Alexander Piecha in our small Nyendo group and in the Pedagogical Conference, new impulses could be set in our Nyendo work. We took up [...]