Happy Easter to all friends

Dear Friends and Family of Mother Wilhelmina Private Hostel, we wish you happy easter from our hearts. We wish you very nice days full with love with your family. View days ago, Katharina was showing us how the germans are decorating trees during easter! Its so funny! We tried our best – together with learners from the DHPS such a fun! We will show you our results soon. For today you can see some pics of one creative satureday afternoon. We appriciate to have such nice and heartfully people around us, they show us a better way of life. Thanks, Noris (17 J.)

We are the World, we are the Children

Listen to our children > We are the world MOTHER WILHELMINA CHOR (mp3). We recorded this song for a project in cooperation with learners from ”Fair stärkt” in Berlin/Germany.

56 Mütter und Väter als Schulbrotpaten gesucht

Wer möchte unser Kinderschutzhaus in Namibia mit fördern? 56 Kinder suchen Paten aus Namibia und Deutschland. Das Projekt besteht bereits seit 25 Jahren und beherbergt Waisen und Kinder, die von ihren Eltern oder Verwandten nicht versorgt werden können.

Wie sieht die Situation heute vor Ort aus? Die neue Patenkampagne ist aus der Not heraus entstanden, denn vor kurzem wurde sichtbar, dass das bisherige Prinzip der Essensorganisation ungeeignet war.

Es gibt Lebensphasen, wo alles auf einmal passiert. Und das findet gerade jetzt im Mother Wilhelmina Afrikaner Private Hostel statt. Wir starten eine erste Patenkampagne für unsere 56 Kinder und bauen neue Strukturen aus der Mitte heraus auf, die wir z.B. für das tägliche Brot benötigen. Das Motto von Maria Montessori „Ich helf Dir, es selbst zu tun“ ist dabei unser Leitfaden.

Weihnachtsüberraschung von BDO

Es war eine große Überraschung für die Kinder des Kinderhaus „Mother W. I. N. Afrikaner Private Hostel“ in Katutura. Die Firma BDO wählte das frühere Moria Grace Shelter und ein weiteres Projekt aus von rund 46 Waisen- und Kinderschutzhäusern in Namibia, um den Kindern ein großzügiges Weihnachtsgeschenk zu machen. Nach Altersgruppen eingeteilt gab es viele Überraschungen im Rucksack. Doch dieser allein war bereits die größte Freude der Kinder. Als sie ihre alten Schultaschen, die fast auseinanderfielen, auf den Hof holten und freudig durch die Luft warfen und einen neuen zu empfangen, wurde klar, wie wertvoll diese spontane Idee von einem der vier BDO-Mitarbeiter war, die diese Aktion vorbereiteten. 56 Kinder hat das Kinderhaus im Moment.

Moria Grace Shelter – a private initiative since 25 years

Moria Grace Shelter celebrated their 25th anniversary in october 2011. More than 200 guests, supporters, friends and neighbors came to congratulate Wilhelmina Afrikaner and her daughter Niconline, both of whom run the private iniciative. The last two years have been rough for them, but they are taking slow but steady steps towards a more stable future. About 35 children who have been neglected or abandoned by their parents live here. The Moria Grace team continues to work tirelessly on improving the school’s structure. It has been recognized as a welfare organisation for a long time, but official accreditation as a hostel is yet to be achieved.

A big surprise at the birthday party was the King of the Khomas region’s visit. It was impressive to see how well known Moria Grace has become over the years in Katutura.
> here you will see more pictures (Flickr)

Thanks to all sponsors from Braunschweig

Its always nice to have visitors from Europe! It was one day in june 2011, when all moria grace children spend time in there old building – the old, small and first Moria Grace place. Its not far away from the new and spacious building. Sigrid Heintorf and her partner Harald Resesky came to visited all Moria Grace children. Sigrid collected clothes, toys, crayons, books and many things more in Braunschweig, Germany, over months. Once a year she is organizing the shipping transport to Walvisbay Port. The second transport (container) this year is leaving Hamburg in the next days. Thanks a lot for your great support! Sigrid Heintorf is Member of Moria Grace Katatura e.V. in Germany.

Sigrid and Harald bought with Katharina Wyss together fruits and vegetables for there short visit. To have enough food every day for all children at Moria Grace Shelter is still a challange. Katharina Wyss guided them to the Moria Grace Shelter in Katutura and gave both a an overview and project update.

Thanks to GOALS CONNECT

We spend a great soccer afternoon together. Soccer profi „Lolo“ Goraseb joined us during the professional children soccer training sponanously, thanks to Shareen from Moria Grace Trust Namibia. Chris, Stefan and Lisa came to visit us and we all had a lot of fun together! We could not believe, that you traveled four months the hole way from Germany (Leipzig) to Windhoek – and finaly to Moria Grace. Here you can read more about it (Allgemeine Zeitung Namibia)
> “Fußball verbindet Kontinente” az Online 1.2.2011
> Flickr-Photostream
> www.goals-connect.org