“It always seems impossible until it’s done” Nelson Mandela Dear friends, on the outbound flight with a stopover in Cairo, I had an unexpected 24-hour stopover on 15th December due to a change in the airline's flight schedule and used this opportunity to attend the SIF conference - Social [...]
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 life skills into their lessons. Since 2009, principal Charles has [...]
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 the student companies to sell their own upcycling products, printed [...]
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 sides! The program was tight, but there was enough time [...]
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 his suggestion and now not only meet weekly since February [...]
Bazar in Evinghausen – Success for Jamii Even though we did not manage to get enough attractive prizes for a big raffle in time this year, our stand at the bazaar at our school was again a real success! In total we received almost 1000 Euro. Our [...]
nyendo in Vienna at the Entrepreneurship-Summit 2019 This gathering is the culmination of the Entrepreneurship Week, which is now taking place simultaneously in 116 countries around the world, with the aim of serving as an encouragement tank and networking platform for young generation change makers. In the [...]
Global responsibility through social entrepreneurship Rise now & connect - with this motto a conference on social entrepreneurship will take place in Nairobi from 13-17 April 2020. The worldwide network Social Initiative Forum (SIF) has accepted the invitation of nyendo.lernen hand in hand gUG and the CIFEFA network [...]
Our new institute director introduces himself Dr. Alexander Piecha My name is Dr. Alexander Piecha and as the new head of the institute I am the contact person for the Nyendo schools, the coaches and the student companies in Germany and Austria. As a history teacher, I [...]
nyendos for future? In Evinghausen, the weekly meeting of our student company Jamii unfortunately always competes with the school strikes of Fridays For Future - a circumstance that I very much regret. As a school in the countryside we depend on the few school buses that bring our [...]
A floor for the Sweet Angels School The Challenge Since 2005, the pupils at Sweet Angels Self Help School have been studying on a natural floor of compressed clay that is based on quite swampy ground. Those floors are very wet and not able to absorb water. [...]
Community based Initiatives for Education, Finance and Agriculture (CIFEFA) 2019 Thanks to donations, especially from our nyendo-studentcompanies, and the dedicated commitment of many people, we were able to accomplish a lot of great things for the schools and thereby for the children in Kawangare and Kangemi. [...]
Construction of Appartements for Teachers of the Kangemi Youth School Our project in construction of appartements for teachers at the Kangemi Youth School in the slum of Nairobi has made a huge step in the direction of its building phase. The plans for that have [...]
Upcoming Projects of our Partner Schools In accord with our core group our partner schools asked for support regarding the following projects: Teachers' salaries Some of the 164 teachers in our 13 partner schools in Nairobi It is a very important matter to all CIFEFA [...]
