From 19 July, HARIBO will be running a special promotion for charities. A code is printed on each Gold Bear action bag. You choose your association online (African Information Movement ;-)) and enter the code. At the end of the campaign, the 50 lucky winners of...
It has been a long time since we reported about our activities in Ghana. The main reason for this is that you can read more about it on the separate website of our training centre. However, we would like to give you a short summary...
Our board member Kirstie Angstmann is running for the migrant advisory board. We support her because she stand up for the education of immigrants, especially migrant women. The election will take place on December 13, 2020. You can find more information on the following website...
A fundraising campaign for local NGOs is running on the Facebook page olf our local German bank. Please support our work with a like / thumbs up on the following page. With enough likes, we can make it into the top 10 by October 21,...
11 Months have passed and there are only three weeks left of this one whole year here in Komenda. This fishing town at the Ghanaian Coast, that one year ago I only knew by name, I didn’t know the streets, I couldn’t speak the language...
The last term in Ghana’s school is about to end and so is the ICT workshop. Time for us to brag with our achievements. We had the ambition to present to the students the world of ICT besides Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp. Because anyone that does...
„We love it, but at the same time we feel cooooold and get sick!“, says Adjoa while we are sitting in the kitchen. She talks about the cool rainy weather of the last two days. Compared to the weather here in Ghana before it is rather cold,...
Right now the workshop is on hold because of the holidays lasting till the 8th of May. Still, there was and is a lot going on concerning the workshop that I would like to share with you. In the last term, term 2, I did a...
For our workshop we had big plans this term. We wanted to organize an excursion to the parliament to Accra and moreover we had also made exact plans for the lessons with our students. Unfortunately, in the end, we had to realize that we could...
„The internet opens a lot of doors to those who are passionate. “– Michelle Phan “The internet is a big distraction.” – Ray Bradbury There are many feelings about the internet. Some might say it rises pressure on the individual to always be available, it consumes a...
And again it was time for travelling. But this time it was all about work. For my movie-project I visited the Volta-Region and it´s prestige object, the Akosombo dam. This Hydrological plant is in charge of one third of the ghanaian electricity system. Above that...
[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...
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...
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...
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...