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 Kenya were sold. The students of the student company brought [...]
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 people. Engaging activities, delicious Kenyan cuisine, and a celebration of [...]
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 up: They continue to contribute, earn money and thus enable [...]
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 solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals and for digital ideas. [...]
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 happened to our "Corona Special"? Our Nyendo student companies were not idle even during the Corona lockdown, and promoted the "Corona Special" in their environment. As a result, a total of €10,279 has been raised in the period from the end of April to the present. 1.776 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The challenge Since 2005, students at Sweet Angels Self Help School have been learning on the natural clay floor located on a muddy foundation. Such floors are very moist, and water cannot quickly soak away. Therefore, they are usually soft, uneven, and very difficult to clean. For the Sweet Angels [...]
