Steps for Children

Another community activity is steps for children project in Okakarara, the pilot project of steps for children Trust Fund, a non-profit charitable non-governmental organization (NGO) in Namibia. Over the years, steps established more projects in Gobabis, Rehoboth, Otavi, Okahandja and Windhoek.Sonja started working at steps Okakarara as a volunteer in 2006. Together with members of the local community and financed through the Stiftung steps for children based in Hamburg/Germany she built up a preschool, soup kitchen and after school care which caters for about 200 disadvantaged children daily. In order to become more and more independent of donations economic projects such as a self-catering guesthouse, sewing workshop and vegetable garden were established. In 2011 Sonja took over the management of the project. These days the focus is less on growing the project and more on consolidating achievements, establishing best practices, improving the quality of all services offered and, last but not least, train a team of locals to take over the project management in the near future. Visitors welcome!Visit