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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
The appeal for donations for the "Corona Solidarity Fund" of the nehemia team has so far raised over 17.000 € (as of April 17th) for the most urgent needs. THANK YOU, from the bottom of our hearts. With this money the projects in Pakistan, India, Kenya and the Ukraine...
The nehemia team starts the “A2”-Initiative
With the initiative "Active Participation" we would like to make a small contribution to overcoming the current challenges through Corona and ask you to be actively involved. "Active participation" is one of the basic values of our nehemia team. We want to fill this...
ATTENTION: The nehemia team Fürth establishes an INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FUND
Some of the international projects supported by the nehemia team in Pakistan, Ukraine, Romania, Thailand, Kenya, Borneo, etc. are severely affected by the worldwide corona crisis and their national protection measures. Therefore we ask for special donations to be able...
School Bus Wanted
For one of the three schools of our nehemia team in Pakistan a small school bus is needed. So even children living further away can attend school. Outside school hours the minibus is used for taxi rides, so that it earns money around the clock, which should benefit...
Meet our new staff: Indian water buffalos
As nehemia team we have already done so many things, but a herd of Indian water buffalos is new to us! Raja, our leader of the Indian nehemia team and experienced water buffalo farmer wants to do exactly that. He dreams of initially three water buffalos as the start...
nehemia in Romania
The Haus des Lichts care centre for mentally and physically handicapped children and adolescents in Schäßburg was born out of the desire to give people back their dignity and help many of those affected. People with disabilities are still kept away from public life...
Become a peacemaker
This was the motto of our seminar for multipliers that took place on 19 October 2019 with 45 participants. They experienced an intensive and challenging workshop that demonstrated the importance and urgency of sustainable reconciliation and peace work. The main aim...
PREVENTING SOCIAL ALIENATION BY INCLUSION
by Tetiana Machabeli During my childhood, I never met an orphan or handicapped child in kindergarten or school. I never came across them in the streets or elsewhere either. I had only read about such people in books. We had a Gypsy family as neighbours. We played with...
A SEWING CENTER FOR WIDOWS
In August 2018 a new project began in Rajahmundry: a sewing center for widows. Here up to eight widows have the opportunity to learn how to work with fabrics and sewing machines. Each training course runs for half a year and is free of charge. Nehemia team India was...
WHAT ACTUALLY IS COOPERATIVE LEARNING?
The term cooperative learning stands for a strategy where in teams students endeavour to reach common goals through reciprocal learning and teaching. The contribution of each individual is important here. Social competency, individual responsibility and...
Ten years of GoKick in Gostenhof
In 2008, the Gostenhof children's club "GoKick" started on a playground in the Gostenhof district of Nuremberg with a children's olympics performed by the nehemia Fire Kids. After ten years, the employees of the nehemia team were able to celebrate with another round...
Rumble Through The Jungle
In September, a team with Hans Heidelberger, Florentina Kuhs, Peter Friedrich, Jonathan Ziegler and Niels Brande (Denmark) set up to visit the Montessori kindergartens of the nehemia team with the Dayaks in various villages in the jungle and to create photo and...
Catastrophic rain in Kenya
RAIN! In Germany, farmers long for it - in Kenya it has been raining excessively for three and a half months. Due to the persistent rains, nearly 200 people died in the Kisumu region alone and more than 1,400 families lost their shelter. Particularly affected was the...
New Staff at Miwani Center
2017 was a challenging year for the Miwani farm project. A persistent drought and the subsequent fire, which destroyed a large portion of the croplands, threw back the farm development quite a bit. Thankfully, a new pastor could be found: Maureen. Maureen Faith Samba,...
Help Center thriving
After two years the progress and development made in the Help Center project is impossible to miss. When Klaus Buchner and Dr. Sabine Auerochs visited this was very clear to them. A heating system and new windows have been installed in the dilapidated building....
Intercultural Children’s Holiday Program
We were a colorful, amazing group: 9 staff: from the YMCA, the nehemia team and from churches, in addition some extra cooks and approximately 20 kids, mostly with migration background. We asked the children: Which language do you speak at home? German, Polish,...
YMCA Leutershausen Journey Where the Pepper Grows
In August a team of young people from the YMCA in Leutershausen (Heidi‘s home town) visited Borneo. Every one of them was involved last year helping with the charity bike race and wanted to get to know the place where Wolfgang and Heidi Oelschlegel and the Nehemiah...
Miwani 2.0 – A new hope for Kenya!
In December Hans Heidelberger met with the direction of "Nehemiah International Kenya" and Greg Livdahl & Dr. Ernie Franz from "Nehemiah International USA" in Kisumu / Kenya. It became clear that the "Miwani Project" in its existing form, due to some mistakes from...
A New Start for Exploring Life’s Living Community
With a wonderful new team, consisting of four young adults, ages 20-24, a new season has begun for Exploring Life’s living community. Since October 2017, the students with various courses of studies (civil engineering, applied chemistry, interior design and social...
Electricity for Burkina Faso!
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world. Only a very small percentage of the population has access to electricity. Many people therefore lack an essential prerequisite for the self-responsible improvement of one's own life situation. Within the...
The nehemia team, 30 years strong – or: Why Jesus needs your fish
It really is true: the nehemia team has been around for 30 years now. If you’ve been sharing our journey from early on and still can’t believe that number, just take a look in the mirror! Time hasn’t stood still at all. It’s been 30 intense years full of challenges,...
A Sweet Cinnamon Delight In Rural Miwani
Who would have thought that the people of rural Miwani would struggle to choose between buying a loaf of bread and indulging in a cinnamon roll? Don’t get it wrong, there’s no joy in watching the rural folks debate between the basic loaf and the tantalizing sweet...
Five things I was taught by refugees
My husband and I have been working with a Contact Café by the nehemia team for 2,5 years now. We meet every Thursday at 4.30 pm to give Germans and refugees an opportunity to get to know each other, have tea, conversations, intercultural inputs or to go on a faith...
Aid shipments from Franconia
Several aid shipments from Franconia made their way to Ukraine again this summer. We are so grateful that Avid & Hanni Feldhoff of „Oase Hersbruck“ and Friedrich Dorsch of „Lasst uns gehen“ in Heiligenstatt and their staff make these shipments possible again and...
An inclusive elementary school is being developed
Uzhgorod/Ukraine: The nehemia team is supporting the project of the Ukrainian nehemia team to start an elementary school in Uzhgorod in 2018 which is based upon Montessori pedagogy. Target groups are especially children from marginal groups: Roma families, orphans,...
Dayaks in Fürth’s Town Hall
A delegation of "Dayaks" (indigenous people from Borneo) was welcomed by Mayor Dr. Thomas Jung in the Fürth Town Hall. Part of this delegation of Indonesian local politicians were the nehemia employees Wolfgang Oelschlegel and Deckhy Gedeon. Fürth's local politicians...
A new school was opened in Karachi
The new school's official name is „Mehran Public School“ and it is now the third school „Nehemia Trust Pakistan“ has opened. 75% of the expenses of purchasing and furnishing the building were covered by the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation) upon...
Course “Bridge Builder and Culture Connector“
Many refugees have arrived here in Germany, which to them is a foreign country. They have partly learned the language or attended an integration course. And, although they can manage daily life, some still feel unaccepted, lonely and as if they’re not a part of the...
All Actual Life is Encounter
or: why interacting with others brings us joy A few months ago, over an invitation to lunch, a friend asked me: “Hans, what have you found truly fulfilling recently; what has made you happy?” After thinking it over for a moment, several things came to mind – all of...
Montessori-Kindergarten overfilled
In the meantime, there are two age groups, as well as children with special needs, who are being integrated, and expansion of the program is being seriously considered. Fortunately, the development program of the United Nations (UNPD) will support the further...
