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Oktober 15, 2024
5th Stakeholder Meeting in Aussenkehr (Namibia)
A sucessfull come-together for a prospirative development of our engagement
On 15 October, more than 50 stakeholders of our ‘Aussenkehr Volunteer Project’ accepted our invitation for the fifth time to reflect on the progress of our commitment in Aussenkehr and to develop goals for the coming year. Representatives of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and the University of Education Weingarten travelled from Germany, while representatives of the Directorate of Education, Arts and Culture and the Directorate for Health and Social Services of the IIKharas Region and the University of Namibia from Windhoek and Keetmanshoop travelled from Namibia. Honorable Constituency Councillor Mrs Taimi Kanyemba-Amakali did the stakeholder team a special honour as keynote speaker.
After the stakeholder meeting, the guests had the opportunity to participate in the arts and culture festival at Aussenkehr Primary School. Every year at the beginning of October, Aussenkehr Farm celebrates the diversity of Namibian culture. With dance performances and food, the different cultures of Namibia proudly present their traditions. It's a great opportunity to get to know each other, get carried away by all the rhythms and start the new project year with lots of new inspiration and positive energy.
September 28, 2023
READATHON in Aussenkehr I Namibia
This reading marathon is all about books, reading and writing for a week
The "Readathon" is an annual nationwide reading week in Namibia initiated by the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture and organised by the Namibia Library and Archives Services (NLAS), during which children and young people in their schools undertake to read various quantities and types of reading material in order to improve their reading skills. The project week is often accompanied by a colorful program of creative activities, games or plays. With a variety of read-aloud activities, the aim is to awaken the children's fascination for books, their stories, and for books as a source of knowledge. For many students, this intensive practice provides an important boost to a fluent reading flow and also motivates them in the long term to have a positive approach to books.
An initiative that is entirely in keeping with the spirit of our foundation! After all, we see the promotion of reading for children and young people as our central foundation purpose. We are pleased to see that the education and cultural authorities in Namibia are paying so much attention to this important topic and that the children at our cooperation school in Aussenkehr had so much fun at this year's Readathon. Our special thanks go to Hilka Malakia, our long-term volunteer and trained librarian, who organized these project days with a lot of passion and commitment for the students in Aussenkehr.
One more motivation for us to work together with our partners in Germany and Namibia for a new library for Aussenkehr. If you would like to support this project in terms of content, material or personally, we would be happy to hear from you. Donations can be transferred directly and easily via our betterplace.org donation account. Thank you very much!
May 14, 2023
4th Stakeholder Meeting in Außenkehr (Namibia)
Constructive exchange, groundbreaking discussions and warm encounters
On May 11th our annual project conference took place in the Norotshama Lodge in Außenkehr Farm. More than 20 participants from Namibia, South Africa and Germany accepted the invitation of our foundation in person or via video call to find out about the developments of our commitment on site, to critically examine it and to develop new forward-looking ideas and visions. In addition to reports from the project work, the two topics "Construction of a new library" and "Life Skills" were the focus of our workshops this year.
We would like to thank everyone involved for their time and their interesting input and look forward to being able to draw many valuable ideas for our work with the children and young people on site.