In June 2024, Martin Schellenberger, Elke and Edgar Feld travelled to the Miwani Centre in Kenya. The nehemia team has been supporting this work, which is now run exclusively by locals, for over twenty years. In addition to agriculture, there is a health centre and a church on the site.
Unemployment in the region is very high at around 60%. We want to provide young people with training so that they have better opportunities on the labour market later on. Following the successful completion of a pilot project in the agricultural sector, an application for funding has now been approved by the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development).
Over the next 18 months, 30 young people will be trained in the fields of agriculture, livestock farming, IT, textile processing and hairdressing. Our trip focussed on the processing of the approved application. How do you reconcile the conscientious demands of a German authority with the Kenyan way of working? That was very exciting and made some of the local employees sweat (and not just because of the warm weather).
We are very grateful for the funding from the German government and for every euro donated, which helps to cover our own 25% contribution. In this way, we can multiply donations and get a project of this size off the ground.
