Members of the volunteer fire department from Klein Escherde paid us a visit. They wanted to find out more about our work. The visitors were in good hands with master carpenter Klaus Algermissen – he also lives in Klein Escherde. A round of talks and coffee rounded off the tour of the workshops and the site.
Once again, the “Lernen-Helfen-Leben” association asked us to procure a used container for the transportation of a minibus and various tools and machines and to load it after repairs. It may be possible to ship the 40′ container in November.
Accompanied by Jürgen Marquardt, 1st Chairman of the Lernen-Helfen-Leben association, we were once again visited by the graduate engineers Abdallah Diop and his wife Ursula Nica. Both are planning to set up an eco-camp and an educational facility in N’Djamene, Chad, on 10 hectares of land they have already purchased. An experimental garden is planned where visitors and trainees can learn about the methods and benefits of composting.
As part of a training event, our colleagues received a very interesting presentation on the conditions in Chad and the project. It was agreed to pack and ship a container with machines and equipment for this project at the beginning of 2012.
On August 3, Sabine Fricke, Managing Director of the Jobcenter Hildesheim, visited us to welcome our new apprentices. Two carpenters and an office clerk have been training with us since August 1st with the help of the Jobcenter. This means that 10 apprentices have now started their training with us in the last few years.
After many difficulties in organizing the transport of the fishing boat to Burundi, which had been refurbished together with the Labora youth workshop as part of the “Stärken vor Ort” project, we were finally successful: Mr. Dietrich von Berg, Honorary Consul of Burundi, promised support from the “Helfen Direkt e.V.” association.
On August 2, the time had come and we were able to load the boat. This was preceded by many discussions and deliberations in our workshops. There was a lot of concern that the boat would not fit into the container. In the end, however, a good solution was found.
The container will be transported to Dar es Salaam on the container ship “Susan Maersk” and will then travel overland across Tanzania to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.
Accompanied by Jürgen Marquardt, 1st Chairman of the Lernen-Helfen-Leben association, the graduate engineers Abdallah Diop and his wife Ursula Nica visited us. Both are planning to set up an eco-camp and an educational facility in N’Djamene, Chad, on 10 hectares of land they have already purchased.
An experimental garden is planned where visitors and trainees can learn about the methods and benefits of composting. Further training modules are to be offered for gardeners and farmers. They were very interested to learn how Arbeit und Dritte Welt built a workshop from over 90% recycled materials.
Jutta Schwarzer, who retired at the end of last month as Managing Director of the Hildesheim-South Lower Saxony Chamber of Crafts, has long supported the employees of Arbeit und Dritte Welt.
She has already twice organized a collection of high-quality winter clothing, such as woollen sweaters and warm jackets, among the chamber’s employees. Today she handed over 8 boxes of work clothes to our chairman Fred Schulz and warehouse manager Jürgen Dittmer. We were very pleased about this.
Several colleagues discovered them almost simultaneously: Epipactis Helleborine, the broad-leaved helleborine
Under the guidance of their teacher Birgit Deike, a class from the Albertus Magnus School visited us and learned about the construction of solar lamps from industrial scrap from workshop manager Peter Wein.
As the pupils had all kinds of previous knowledge, there was a lively discussion for which there was barely enough time.
As part of a closed meeting, the vice presidents of the employee side of the Lower Saxony Chambers of Crafts visited Arbeit und Dritte Welt on 26.06.2011. This visit was another part of a long-standing exchange of information on labor market policy and the employment, qualification and training of disadvantaged people.
Klaus Algermissen (master carpenter), Thomas Brien (Managing Director) both from Arbeit und Dritte Welt, VP Roman Hannover (HWK- Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Stade), VP Hans Otto Rohde (HWK-Oldenburg), VP Jens Dudziak (HWK-Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Stade), VP Jörg Klein (HWK- für Ostfriesland), VP Stephan Hövelmann (HWK- Osnabrück- Emsland), VP Rolf Heise (HWK Hildesheim- Südniedersachsen) and Fred Uwe Schulz (Chairman Arbeit und Dritte Welt) intensively discussed the prospects and consequences of the planned “instrument reform” on the part of the federal government and practical opportunities for young people with learning difficulties.
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