We are very happy. With KulturLife we have found a great sending organization. With departure in August 2020 volunteers can do their service with our partner organisation AIM in Ghana. The selection process is open. More information is available here. ...
It’s been only a month that I spent here in Ghana, but Elmina already feels like home. Here I am living in a room in the house of the director of AIM Ghana, Solomon Appiah. Unlike former volunteers I’m not staying in the village of...
Another post in our movie library on our Youtube channel. The documentation was produced by our volunteer Manuel. What is it about: Finally the new solar-panels are installed on the rooftop of the Aim-Training Center and now Aim can work completly independent from national power supply....
A new post in our movie library on our youtube channel. Check it out. The film was created by our weltwärts volunteer Maxim together with the teenagers. What it is about: "Who do you want to become, Kofi?" is the final film of the Ayensudo film-workshop...
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...
Last Saturday, 29th of April 2017 finally the launching of this years AIM Youth Magazine „The Youth Speak“ took place. And consequently the result of Mellis’ and my work since beginning of our volunteer service in Ghana. It was a long way to walk with...
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...
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...
As the pre-christmas time was reserved for planning and performing of shooting dates for my Documentation about the energy system in Ghana and Aim´s Solar Panel Project, where I took interviews with different people beeing relevant for the Topic, the time from Christmas into the...
„In der Weihnachtsbäckerei, gibt’s so manche leckerein, ...
[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...
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...
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...
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 movie workshop took place in the Komenda Junior High and in the New Town School in Ayensudo for a few weeks. At the Aim seminar we worked out the projects goal for each of the three school year terms with our mentor Francis. Term 1 Basics...