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...

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...

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...