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Vocational Training for Young Men and Women
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...
Peace Conference Has Great Impact
In August 2023, a mob of hundreds of angry Muslims stormed a Christian neighborhood in Jaranwala, near the megacity of Faisalabad, causing widespread destruction. With your support, our Pakistani nehemiah team was one of the few aid organizations on the ground to help...
neemia Center for Child-Centered Education, Inclusion and Social Development
The NGO Neemia (Ukrainian nehemia team), in cooperation with the German nehemia team and the BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), is has expanded and developed the nehemia Centre in Uzhgorod into a ‘Centre for Child-Centered Education,...
Oasis of hope
The educational center in Uzhgorod/Ukraine is a bustling place. Over the past year hundreds of people have found comfort and rest here. Children's laughter fills the air. Early May Elke Feld (project manager) traveled to Uzghorod accompanied by Claudia Köhler...
John Krueger
Dear Friends in the Nehemiah International Network On July 18th, 2023 John Krueger passed away in Seattle/USA. Significantly, it was on Father's Day, as he became a father figure or fatherly friend and companion to many in our nehemia network. Especially in the 1990s...
UKRAINE IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY
Rocket attacks and artillery fire are shaking Ukraine. What this means for the country and the people makes us stunned and calls us to act quickly. Our Ukrainian nehemia team HO Neemia in Uzghorod plays a major role in addressing the many humanitarian challenges in...
Language and learning support
Dear friends and supporters of the Contact Café, Since Dec 2014 we as nehemia team e.V. offer once a week the contact café for people with refugee background. Here integration happens through encounters between Germans and refugees and help can be offered to cope with...
The education offensive in Transcarpathia / Ukraine begins!
After months of filling out applications, poring over figures and drafting concepts, our applications for financial support have been approved. Thank God! The "Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation" and "Aktion Mensch" have officially approved the funding. We were...
Learning support for children with a refugee background
Project start of the learning support was already in June. We are very happy to support these children who had hardly any help with online lessons during the lockdown. The program has been very well received and the children are enjoying learning while their mothers...
Farewell to Raja Sekhar Gudala
We are sorry to inform you that our dear friend and faithful co-worker Raja Sekhar Gudala passed away on 5 May 2021 at Rajahmundry Hospital at the age of 47 due to Covid-19 infection. We are deeply saddened by the news. Raja was a faithful and dedicated worker in our...
The officially unofficial social system: Indian castes
Officially, the Indian caste system was already abolished in 1948, but the reality is different. People are still divided into castes, i.e. social classes, which are automatically assigned certain rights, duties and privileges. In India, you can neither move up nor...
Women Empowerment for Indian Dalits
Since the end of 2020, the nehemia team has been working in the southern state of Telangana with the organization "7 Fruits Foundation", which offers women, especially among the Dalits, new opportunities for a self-determined life in dignity and some independence....