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in future

In the near future we will continue to assist the primary school, provide necessary support in close consultation, plan garden updates, hold joint sowing workshops, renovate toilets, build shade roofs, help out with the school feeding program, prune fruit trees and organize confidence-building girls’ talks. We also have two other major tasks ahead of us: the Go Beam Kindergarden with the Go Beam Academy and the vision of the worldwide “turning garden”.

There has been a persistent problem in Kalkfeld for years. This problem is the lack of kindergarten places for “the most vulnerable”. Many children live on the streets and get neither food nor education. So we see our task in further expanding the Go Beam Kindergarten, which was set up with Miss Mathilda !Kharuchas at the beginning of 2022.

But it is not just the small children in Kalkfeld who are left to their own devices. Many young people who have finished school are also without a job or a future. In a “vision sharing meeting” we organized with a wide variety of people from the township at the beginning of 2021, we worked out that there is a great need for training and further education for young people. The future vision of the Go Beam Academy was born, a multi-skills center in which manual and technical skills can be passed on to the next generation, under the direction of Miss !Kharuchas.

The first steps have been taken: in 2023 we set up a homework help service and in 2024 we launched a computer lab at the Go Beam Academy, through which 90 young people now have access to global, digital education. Our goal is to be able to offer at least twice as many places.

For the more distant future, we have further resilience-promoting visions that, when implemented in interdisciplinary cooperation, should improve the living conditions of children and young people in Africa.

At the beginning of 2025, we would like to set up a farm kindergarten for 40 children aged two to four in cooperation with our farmer Heiko Becker. With a small health initiative, we would like to give young women the opportunity to become independent self-care and will travel to Otumborombonga. Perhaps a small primary school is needed there.

It remains very exciting and so we will not stop pursuing and implementing our vision of the worldwide “turning garden”.