Samstag, 13. Juli 2013

austria

i was at home for 3 weeks - and it was really nice! it was a pleasure to see my family and my friends again - thanks everybody for your time! it was really good to see you! i was in salzburg, twice in vienna and also in innsbruck - as you can imagine it was a bit stressfull as well.
unfortunately i was not able to meet all people which i wanted to meet - i will be back soon and am looking forward to seeing you soon!
since wednesday  i am back in ghana - and want to show you some pictures.

as mr. edwars snowden showed the whole world recently there is too much abuse with personal data. i was a bit surprised that many people seemed not to know at all how well we are all monitored... anyway, there is a reason why i am not on facebook and rather write this blog. but i also realized that if i put too many personal pictures here i give away my privacy as well...therefore i will show you pictures, but without people!! in 2 pics is myself, but you know anyway how i look!

dear family and dear friends, i have some nice pictures of you - but will show it to you privately!

kind regards from ghana,

sevi

at the airport in frankfurt - so clean!

i am coming home...
besides family and friends, from which i do not show you in pictures here, it was a great pleasure to eat some of the local food from austria...and some of the food i am used to, even though not local! please ceck it out!
dark austrian bread - the best in the world!

we eat bread with sausage

from turkey - kebab

dürüm

pizza


cheese spaetzle with salad



backhendlsalat - salad with chicken

schweinzbraten - rost pork?!

enjoying a beer with friends
fleischkas with salad

some more austrian starters

wiener schnitzel with french fries - named after our capital city vienna (wien)

pizza with salad
bread, vegetables, sausage, cheese, salad - a typical dinner at home

anette reichst du mir mal bitte das - kartoffelpüree

chinese food

fish in the ground of the chinese restaurant
some deserts:
faschingskrapfen

ice peach dumplings
peach dumplings
austria is also famous for beer. we have a long tradition in brewing - and i guess also in drinking!

since 1770



my favourite, from my city, and with the best taste! SINCE 1492!!!
"vulcano" in salzburg

cutting the lawn - felt funny when i thought about my life in ghana
a flower in my mothers garden


renovated trainstation in my home town

from salzburg i went to vienna, the capital

they renamed the road but did not remove the old street sign!!
famous...?!

people can donate their old clothes here - later on most of them come as second hand clothes into african markets and destroy the tailoring industry in the whole continent

recycling works very well at home...different places for different materials (plastic, metal, glass,...)
church
african style room - respect mr. b!

used to be viennas tallest building

in the 2nd world war people went inside here when the planes came to bomb the city

another witness from world war II

monument

the houses are tall and old, the city is clean

another church

i spoke about people (states, institutions) checking on us before - at least some people speak against it!!


and another church



a place for enjoyment in vienna
we also "flew" in this thing!

the city hall in vienna

the last stop was in innsbruck, where i used to study - and a really nice place!
in winter this is used for ski jump competitions!
innsbruck is "inside" the mountains - an amazing place

at least i saw some snow!
the "golden roof" - an important place in innsbruck

really old houses in the old part of the town

from the city center you can see the mountains - and snow!

post office in innsbruck

trainstation in innsbruck
from innsbruck i flew back to ghana!
back in ghana!


Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013

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


TV


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!
hahaha...its beer in front

my girlfriend cynthia

in tamale...

...at a huge...

...baobab tree...

...in the whole lives a god - a python

a huge tree!!!

...in the streets of tamale!

have a good start into the week, see you