The nyendo annual celebration 2021 On 29/01/2021 we had an online annual celebration on Discord and Zoom instead of a closed meeting at Chiemsee because of Corona. At the beginning there were a few introductory words from Irmgard. Afterwards, the student companies discussed with a [...]
A reflection of 2020 from the perspective of the Nyendo Institute Like probably many reviews of 2020, the one of the Nyendo Institute is a mixed one. Our year started with a great retreat on the Fraueninsel at Lake Chiemsee. Many personal encounters, many guests with interesting inputs [...]
"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 do things a bit differently. Many young people in [...]
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. The topic of the student video conference is the Corona [...]
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 slums of Nairobi were discussed as well as the acute [...]
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. There they visited their partner schools in the slums of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
