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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

An exciting cultural exchange between NairoBits and Nyendo students took place in April 2023. The visit was an opportunity for the students to interact, learn from each other's cultures, and explore the impact of digital skills training on empowering young [...]

Gratitude My name is Atieno, I am the project coordinator and office manager of Nyendo.Lernen in Kenya. In February 2022, I had the opportunity to visit Germany as part of my Nyendo work. I have visited all [...]

Profile Veronica Nduku Veronica is the owner of Love School, which consists of Love School Senior in Kangemi and Love School Junior in Mlolongo. She founded the school in Kangemi in 2003 and opened the school in Mlolongo in 2020 [...]

TEAlicious - Closed conference 2022 This year's Nyendo Retreat from February 10-12, 2022 was joined by all TEAlicious staff. Especially for Susan and Jessica it was very interesting this year, as it was the first [...]

Old fence at the back oft he school building The school building of the Kangemi Youth Center was only inadequately secured at the back by a low and already very dilapidated fence. Unauthorized persons gained access, disrupted lessons, [...]

A copy store at Evemon School Ramsey at work on new EPSON printer At Evemon School, in the summer of 2022, it was recognized that there was not enough supply of printing services in the local market. [...]

In the summer of 2022, Veronicah Nduku, the director of the two Love Schools, asked us to install a water tank at the Love School junior. In this school - as in almost all schools in the slum [...]

NairoBits@KYC: First course On 15th of November, the NairoBits ICT program at the Kangemi Youth School did start. 7 students were taken in altogether. On day 1, the serial numbers for the laptops were documented and one computer [...]

Successful social entrepreneurs Even though the young people in our student companies lack personal encounters, being active with one another, visits from Kenya and project travelers who report from there due to the pandemic, they do not give [...]

Youth Entrepreneurship Week at the HAK Ybbs From November 16 - 19, 2021, the Youth Entrepreneurship Week (YEW) took place at the Handelsakademie (HAK) Ybbs. The YEW offers space for innovation, for the development of [...]

FreeDay: Market of opportunities On October 8, our institute director Dr. Alexander Piecha was able to present nyendo to a number of teachers at the "Market of Opportunities" of Schule im Aufbruch - a virtual [...]