Dalits – The Untouchables of Indian Society

The Dalits (untouchables) are on the lowest rung of the Indian caste system. They are descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of India. The name Dalit comes from a Sanskrit word “dal”, meaning ‘broken, torn, downtrodden, outcast, trampled, destroyed and openly...

Children with a Future – The Nehemiah Children’s Centre

The Nehemiah Ministry Welfare’s Children’s Centre is a place of hope run by the Indian Nehemiah Team in Rajahmundry. Rajasekhar and Ebba Gudala head up this work, providing food, shelter, clothes, education and medical care for mainly Dalit children. The children can...

GoKick & GoTeens

Way back in 2008 we started a multicultural children’s program in Gostenhof, a suburb of Nürnberg. It had an emphasis on learning-by-doing and was called “GoKick” (Gostenhofer Kinder Club) In September 2012 we added a teenagers’ group, GoTeens. The GoKick group meets...

The Miwani Centre

Extreme poverty, lack of educational opportunities for the young, migration to the cities, corruption, terrorism, AIDS and malaria – reports from Africa seem to remain the same year after year.  Convinced that there is still hope, when individual people begin to think...

Montessori Kindergartens in Kalimantan

The Nehemia Team is supporting the development of kindergartens in cooperation with local churches, by training teachers and supplying educational resources and toys. West Kalimantan (part of Borneo) is one of the least literate provinces of Indonesia. The educational...

The Dayaks of Borneo

Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is located on the equator in South East Asia. The province of West Kalimantan is part of Indonesia, and has one of the lowest literacy rates in that nation. The majority of the population belong to different tribes of the...

The Nehemiah International Network

After many projects in overseas countries had been undertaken, from the 1990s onwards local, national Nehemiah Teams were formed. In 2008 these were linked together in an international network. The purpose of this network is mutual support, co-operative action,...

„Gateway to Life 2011“ in Uzhgorod – A Unique Experience!

Nearly 100 “Nehemiahs“ from over ten different countries came together in the Ukraine for two weeks in August – most of the participants under the age of 30. It was the first gathering of its kind, a group of “Young Nehemiahs,” who came together at the...