The classrooms and toilet were in a very poor state due to a fire. Our employee Brenda Kavili suggested building three classrooms with the Twist Blocks from Start Somewhere, extending the existing toilet, renovating the leaking roof and leveling [...]
The schoolyard and the classrooms at the Evemon Education Center were repeatedly flooded during the annual rainy season. Together with our new partner from Start Somewhere Brenda Kavili, the principal Everlyn Kimani and the landlord of the property, we [...]
On the occasion of her 70th birthday, our volunteer Jasmine Reischl asked her guests for donations for nyendo. The donation of €600 was used to support the Evemon Education Center. Due to a lack of school desks, the [...]
The property of the Kangemi Youth Center is located on one side of a river and was only protected by a weak fence or not at all. The school garden is also located in this [...]
The Louise von Rothschild School Frankfurt am Main had transferred proceeds from its student company to the Skylife Children Center in 2019 and 2020, but these could not be used immediately due to the coronavirus lockdown, meaning that around [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The installation of a larger water tank with a capacity of 10,000 liters in November 2021 could help. On the part of NYENDO this project was supported with 740,00 €. Now even drinking water can be sold to the [...]
The night of fire The Love School senior in the Kawangware slum in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of nyendo's oldest partner schools. It was founded in 2003 by Veronicah Nduku to help children infected with HIV. In October [...]
How we should fight hunger and food dependency in the world The fact that many people in developing countries suffer from hunger is nothing new. The pandemic has exacerbated this situation. The Movement of Life [...]
After the lockdown - First impressions from Kangemi in January 2021 New to the Nyendo Team Nairobi is our staff member Ndanu Brown. She is re-establishing our office at Kangemi Youth School (KYS) and will [...]
The Challenge Skyllife School is located in Kawangware-Slum, which is the 2nd biggest slum in Kenya. Due to poor drainage-and sewer system in the slum and high population rate, most of the sewage is just disposed openly and anyhow. This [...]
The school's principal, Evelnye Omuse, writes: "The installation of electricity at our school has brought great benefits to both teachers and students: In the lighted classrooms, learners can now read what is written on the board without difficulty and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
