sevistravel: reintegration

good evening!

on the 18th of may BRAVEAURORA reintegrated the last 8 children from the former guabuliga orphanage to their extended families. now all children live at home, constant monitoring and support will continue, while the focus of my employer changes more to community development!! interesting new tasks are going to come, i am looking forward!

view from our watertank into my neighbour hood. i live in the house on the right side

since the complete reintegration of all children is a real success, i organized a "reintegration celebration day", where i invited the chief of guabuliga and his elders, representatives from government organizations and partner NGOs as well as the media and of course the whole community to celebrate with us! it was a nice function, please see some pictures!

our new shirts

we used our fridge to cool the water and a star beer!

thomas, hias (social work students) and mirijam (volunteer) live with me these days. the evening before the celebration

preparing

chief arrives

music = dance

the guests have arived

chief imam opens the ceremony

our children sing a welcome song

speach from my boss with media presence (national TV stations)

the children had prepared a theatre...

...about education, health, environmental protection

the children dance

high table

chief was also listening...

...and gave some wise words in the end! thank you!!

i also had a chiefs meeting, where i met him with his elders and some community members in front of his palace. some days before the meeting i had been approached by chief who requested that our NGO should buy two bundles of zink. these two bundles will be used in addition to the two bundles which the community was able to afford - to protect the wodden!! electrical polls. these polls, which bring electricity to the community, have to be protected from the yearly bush fire. at the meeting we spoke about the importance of keeping the environment clean as well as the just ended reintegration process in the community. see some pictures...

women...

...and men

...with chief

chief

film crew from COHFwas present because they are shooting a movie for BRAVEAURORA

handing over the zink

shooting

this truck is going to burkina

this picture was taken on a sunday on the way to one of our final interviews for the documentary "the forgotten kingdom? the cronicles of the north..." we went to interview the sakoti paramount chief. last week also two more historians were interviewed in accra at the university of ghana/legon and the material will be edited very soon. the final missing part is then only the king in ouagadougou. i am also very curious how it will be. i have never seen it with subtitles, inserts, voice over,... i cant wait! and if everything goes well you will all be also able to see it - in the cinemas around the globe!!!

if you have not seen it before, please check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En6XBIqSPTk

BUT DONT FORGET: this trailer is just a raw cut. the sound will be different. there will be subtitles. there will be inserts WHO is speaking and WHERE we are in the kingdom.

i will keep you informed about progress!