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Making art can achieve a lot. In Art classes, children learn to develop their own ideas, express themselves and develop their social skills. This is why we at nyendo.lernen financed two months of art lessons for two groups of [...]

This year's sponsored run of the nyendo “Food for Food” school company took place at the end of March 2025 - and the weather was perfect for running! With over 110 motivated students from grades 1 to 12 and [...]

As part of their three-week trip to Kenya, the Nyendo students immersed themselves in the life and learning of their partner schools in Kangemi and Kawangware - a densely populated district of Nairobi with around 250,000 inhabitants, 65% of [...]

Thanks to a generous donation of €1,500 from the Rotary Club Melk, 250 children from partner schools in Nairobi were able to experience a very special day. As part of the educational project nyendo.lernen and the Kangemi Kids Days [...]

Our nyendo student companies have long been collecting money for a possible hub in the Kangemi slum - a place that could not only serve as accommodation for our students during visits, but would also be open to other [...]

The site where the dormitory is planned to be built. The development of the Prosperity School Boys Dormitory has been a journey of dedication and collaboration. Initially slated to start early last year under architect Miss Brenda Kavili [...]

The school company Upendo Tamu is run by the Freie Waldorfschule Rosenheim. Upendo Tamu is Swahili and means something like “sweet love”. The name is the program every Friday. Sweet break - a win-win for everyone On Fridays, the [...]

Contribution by Hélène Fleury The conference started with a wonderful experience on the ferry trip - a sunset over the mountains and Lake Chiemsee. When Sister Scholastika picked up our heavy luggage in her golf cart, the [...]

The nyendo community met for the 13th time on Fraueninsel in Chiemsee. Students and coaches exchange ideas and plan new projects. On a virtual trip to Kenya The participants arrived on January 30. On Thursday, they presented the activities [...]

This experience changes lives. For just $200, we can give another 30 children the chance to see, to feel, and to dream beyond the slum. and kindly their own potential. Will you help us make it happen? [...]

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: [...]

On October 12, 2024, we, the student company Upendo Tamu, mastered our first big event of the year - the coffee and jewelry sale at the flea market. We served espresso, cappuccino and black coffee to the guests at [...]

This year's Entrepreneurship Summit took place in Vienna with the motto “Innovation and Transformation” - an inspiring platform that focused on the question of how sustainable and future-oriented changes in business and education can be designed. Roberta Sterbling [...]

On December 7, six head teachers from our Nyendo partner schools joined us at the Oseki Retreat. In addition to a review, we ate, sang and played together with our guests from Germany and England. Below we let the [...]

On 3rd December 2024, 30 kids from our nyendo Partnerschools in Kangemi Slum had an exciting day out of town and away from their everyday life. Jerusa, our nyendo project coordinator, walked them over to Kitengela Glass and back [...]

Since 2011, around 1000 young girls have been saved here from early marriage and genital mutilation. All of them have graduated from school and many of them have been able to reintegrate into their families. An enormous change in [...]

Elias from Rosenheim about the business coaching of his student company on October 8, 2024 Our student company Upendo Tamu recently had the opportunity to participate in a business coaching session. The coaching took place at the Waldorf [...]

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 [...]