[caption id="attachment_25460" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Big run on the ICT vacation workshops. - This year we offer 8 courses for a total of 96 students. Each course encounters twice a week for 2 hours and the course size is limited to the number of available working...
With rapid strides the end of the first term passed. After a bit more than two months all the workshops go into a longer break for six weeks, to give the students time for preparate their exams and of course their well-deserved vacation. This gives...
Whilst the first snow flakes are landing on your noses in Germany and you are enjoying biscuits and tee, life in Ghana is a little bit different. Instead of snowflakes we are feeling how the sun is getting hotter and hotter. For refreshment, we enjoy eating...
Christopher and I have the wonderful task to explain some Ghanaian kids how the computer works and how many different possibilities the computer has. This task requires patience because most of the kids have never used a computer before. What seemed to be normal for...
96% of the Ghanaians are religious. A fact that plays a big role in daily life. Shops are named like „Talk to Jesus Phone Shop“ or „Blood of Jesus Hair Care“, on every fifth corner there is a church, big, small, still under construction or...
Very fast i get used to the normal rythm of the everyday ghanaian lifestyle. And this means especially waking up very early. It becomes normal for me to get up in the morning dawn, to do some sport activities. Under the week i go running...
Everyone who is wondering what a typical first month in Ghana looks like will not find his answer by looking at the experience we had. Because our first four weeks were anything but typical. Though pinning down a standard is already hard enough, our time would even...
The lessons at the Junior High schools in the K.E.E.A. district have begun and so have the AIM. workshops. Hence, it is about time to inform you about this year’s ICT-workshop. After 10 years of preparation, the workshops now take place at the brand-new, freshly...
The time flies and although I can't believe it, already almost two months full of new experiences and encounters have passed since we arrived in Ghana. Slowly I start feeling at home in this place. Everyday life has begun and luckily also the workshops are...
After a Month and first steps as a teacher in the Movie-Workshop, it is about time to resume for the Aim blog what i experienced so far. Planning and performance of the grand Aim training center opening, which i unfortunately couldn`t attend because of a...
Since over 10 years AIM Germany and AIM Ghana are working for this day, the 9th of september finally was the big day. The commission oft the AIM Community ICT Centre in Komenda took place. Important people like the deputy of the German Embassy, of...
We have been waiting for long to deliver this news. On September 9th, it finally happened. Solemnly our "community computer training center" was opened among others by the Deputy German Ambassador Bernhard Abels. Even the heavy rain couldn't spoil our festive mood. But unfortunately, at...
The video project ended with a great presentation. Teachers, students and guests participated at the presentation. They could see pictures and videos which the members of the movie workshop produced during the entire year. In the end of the workshop the members created their own...
AIM. has appointed a Director and an Administrator for the operation of the training center in Komenda. Thus, preparations for the opening and operation of the training center in September are in full swing. Currently the concept is being adapted, the technical equipment supplied, and...
About one month ago the New Komenda Sugar Factory was inaugurated. Komenda has had a sugar factory almost as big as the new one many years ago, but it had to be closed in the 1980s because of mismanagement. Now the government of Ghana under President...
Our workshop went on continuously. After finishing the camera exercises and the group finding each teams (Team Wonderstarts, Team Seastar, Team Victorious und Team Morning Star Multimedia) started to shoot the planed movie. So the Kids shoot all the scenes on their own, only with...
9 months already… It’s unbelievable, it really does not feel like we have been here for such a long time. It feels so much like home but soon we have to leave again, even though I would like to stay for longer.. But that is enough...
Half of the time for the video workshop is already over. Lois und me are leading the video workshop in Ayensudo. Approximately 12 students are coming to the workshop. It is so much fun for the youth to act in front of the camera and...
The first weeks of this term already passed by. Unfortunately our plan for these weeks didn’t work out how we expected it to be. A lot of workshops couldn’t take place: Sometimes there were sporting activities at school, any kind of meetings, public holidays or...
The third term started and we just want to do our best again. Since the start of April Tim joined us, he is a selffinanzed Volunteer who will write his master thesis about the Aim. Movie Workshop. Because of the time he needs for this...
Slowly the Training Center is ready to move in. So now in the third trimester we try to start the workshops there. In the moment we are still working on a new concept. Not only because of the limited space in the Training Center but...
Since one month I am in Komenda and really happy to be here. I much appreciate the warm welcoming here, especially from AIM. Ghana. I will join the film workshop. I am writing my master thesis about the film workshop. At the moment I am...
Still we are on vacations, both the students and us the volunteers. But we deserve the free time after we poured so much work, patience and lifeblood into creating and launching the first magazine. Next week we are going to resume the Workshop and new plans...
Especially in the last weeks we had a lot of work to do. We had to correct articles, layout the magazine and organize the printing, but finally we got it: The 7th edition of the AIM Youth Magazine is published. We organized a big launching ceremony...
We are currently in a Workshop free time, as our students are on holidays. That means a lot of time to travel, work on various projects or just time to relax. Last one is very easy here, thanks to the beach, permanently nice weather and...
In the past two weeks we were able to start with the subject the Internet in two Schools. We covered which Software to use, how to open a website, what is Google and some were able to register an E-Mail account already. Previously we looked at the File Explorer...
Already last Sunday we had our first selection seminar for the voluntary generation 2016/2017. All 9 candidates were able to convince during the all-day seminar at Treffpunkt Freiburg. Ultimately, we had the possibility to choose 5 volunteers who will provide optimal support to our project...
AIM. received ten donated laptops from Germany last month. These laptops have been checked now and are going to be added to the already existing six AIM-Laptops. A very big thanks to: Free University of Berlin, Kirsten Remde, Paul Remde, Max-Planck Institute Potsdam-Golm, Regina Attula-Rütz, Beate...
The second term has started and the movie workshop was located at another school. We have one week of workshops behind us. In Ayensudo we make up where we left off at the end of last term. But there is a new, one hand sad the...
The first application period for a weltwärts Voluntary Service has expired on 31st January. We are pleased about the lively interest in our projects in Ghana. Those who are also interested to volunteer with AIM. in the fields of youth magazine, movie or computer can...
What a nice festival! And you made it possible .. you hardworking crew, you interested visitors, you great artist !! Thank you for everything! For us as a team it was a very great experience once again. And the special thing about it: We have...
Do not forget, and visit our 9th African Kiss festival in the Mensa Rempartstraße in Freiburg on 30th January. Be with us and experience a variety of african family and concert program. More information....
Please note the 1st application deadline for a voluntary service in Ghana ends on 31st January 2016. Inform yourself and apply now ...
Happy New Year! And like every year our annual assembly of members will take place in January. In addition to our members we would like to invite all persons interested in our work. The assembly of 2015 will take place "Treffpunkt Freiburg" next Saturday, the...