The best time of life – in the slums of Nairobi
This is what Christoph Fischer, a former Nyendo employee, wrote about the months he spent with us in Kenya in 2015. Christoph had a background as an art teacher at Waldorf schools. When he came to Africa in 2015, [...]
A new office building for the Sweet Angels Self Help School
The Sweet Angels Self Help still had funds of around € 1,700 from donations made by the Waldorf School in Frankfurt am Main in 2019, which could not be used due to the coronavirus lockdown. In fall 2023, our [...]
Happy Hour Self Help School: Renovation of classroom and toilet
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 [...]
Evemon Education Center – new rainwater drainage and sidewalk
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 [...]
Evemon Education Center: 14 new school desks
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 [...]
Strengthening a fence at the Kangemi Youth Center
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 [...]
Skylife Children Center: Renovation Works
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 [...]
Project visit by our board member Esin Bozyazi
Our long-standing advisory board member Esin Bozyazi came to Kenya and Uganda from 19 to 29 November. She wanted to get a personal impression of our nyendo collaboration with our partners in Nairobi and wrote [...]
German Start Somewhere team visiting Kenya
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 [...]
The Amapiano Dance Project
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 [...]
A Nyendo Hub in Kangemi Slum
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 [...]
New and stronger fence for Kangemi Youth Centre
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
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. [...]
16,000-liter water tank for Love School junior
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 [...]
Drinking water for the students of the Kanyorosha Self Help School
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 [...]
Fire and Vandalism at Love School senior
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 [...]
Movement of Life
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
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 [...]