With a transportation grant from Engagement Global, we were able to start transporting a new delivery van for D.A.R.E. in northern Nigeria.
We prepared the bus for Lernen-Helfen-Leben, packed a box of refurbished masonry tools and labeled it. Among other things, it will be used to deliver energy-saving stoves in the Kaduna region.
In consultation with Ms. Angelica Saavedra from the Göttingen association “ Nachhaltig gegen Hunger”, we sent a portable electric welder.
The recipient was the Fondation Amigo in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. It is run by Pere Vincent Miguel and trains young people in basic manual skills.
Once again we have sent a donation shipment for DBO in Banjul / The Gambia. The 40′ container is scheduled to arrive in Banjul on December 2nd.
It contains bicycles, accessories for a bicycle repair workshop, school desks and chairs and teaching materials for the training of car mechanics.
The Lernen-Helfen-Leben association intends to ship this bus to Nigeria to support the D.A.R.E. project.
Our workshops have fitted the bus with new lettering.
The vehicle has been TÜV-approved since last week. Now the shipment is being organized.
It will probably be loaded onto a Ro-Ro ship in Bremerhaven.
Among other things, the bus will be used to deliver energy-saving stoves manufactured in D.A.R.E. workshops.
For many years, the Robert Bosch Comprehensive School has been involved in the construction of a health center in the flatlands of northern Tanzania. This is intended to help secure medical care southwest of Kilimanjaro. The construction of such a ward in Sanya Yuu was realized with donations and handed over to the order of the Holy Spirit Sisters.
In a second phase, the technical equipment for the station was collected and made available at the school. Large quantities of high-quality equipment were collected so that a transport container could be ordered.
In cooperation with the school, we organized a 20′ container, the listing, packing and loading as well as the transport. On 18.09.2015, the container set off on its journey with great participation from the students.
The container will be loaded onto the Seroya Lima in Hamburg. Departure is on 23.09.2015 to Mombasa. From there it will travel overland to Sanya Juu. It is expected to arrive there at the end of October.
Gordana and Danijel Halivic came to Germany as refugees. At the beginning of September, they now want to return to Bosnia and Herzegovina and rebuild their lives.
The AWO Hildesheim’s return counseling service in cooperation with Arbeit und Dritte Welt is helping them to do this. Danijel received an assortment of special tools and hand machines from us, which came from donations.
Our basic aim is to support craftsmen in building up a livelihood. The AWO is a good partner for this.
On July 8, 2015, representatives of the Hildesheim Business Juniors visited us for the first time.
We had the opportunity to present the various aspects of our work in detail. At the same time, an intensive exchange of ideas took place in an open, pleasant atmosphere.
We were very pleased about this visit and are confident that this contact will be intensified for the benefit of the unemployed and people in the Third World.
Mobility is a very important asset for people with physical disabilities. Anyone who cannot move is excluded.
In Germany, vast quantities of wheelchairs, rollators and walking aids that are in working order or still repairable are disposed of and end up in the garbage. This also applies to bicycles. There is a lack of these aids in Eritrea. The war-disabled have to lead a life of isolation.
We have been supporting the Eritrean War Disabled and Veterans Association for many years, enabling its members to participate and lead a dignified life.
Through our supporters, we have collected over 600 used bicycles, more than 300 wheelchairs, rollators and walking aids as well as pedal sewing machines and gardening tools since the end of last year.
If our application for a transport grant from Engagement Global, a BMZ organization, is approved, we will soon be able to load three 40′ containers and ship them to Massawa via Hamburg. From there, the relief supplies will then be transported overland to Asmara.
Since 2011, pupils at the Robert Bosch Comprehensive School in Hildesheim have been collecting donations for the construction of an infirmary in Lekrimuni, a village in the immediate vicinity of Mount Kilimanjaro. The infirmary has now been completed and is already available to the local population to a limited extent.
The container will now be used to safely transport a large quantity of donations in kind to Lekrimuni. These donations will help to improve and expand the quality of services at the infirmary.
Arbeit und Dritte Welt is supporting the school’s project with transport logistics and packaging.
The Hildesheim Mission for the Blind (HMB) has been in existence for 125 years this year. It now campaigns for the recognition and equal rights of blind people in six Asian countries.
The Blind Mission therefore runs and supports schools in five Asian countries and offers education there. Sponsorships from Germany can be used to finance school places for blind children.
Discrimination, exclusion and prejudice make the already difficult situation of blind people much more difficult.
At first glance, the further training opportunities are limited and often only focus on learning the profession of masseur. Telephone services and working with a speech computer have been added in recent decades.
This year we organized air freight for the Blind Mission to Medan in Indonesia with computers donated by Gymnasium Josephinum. This drew our attention to the problem of a lack of training opportunities.
As head teachers from schools for the blind in Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan were invited to Hildesheim as part of the anniversary celebrations, they visited Arbeit und Dritte Welt. This gave us the opportunity to learn more about the work of the schools for the blind and to gain a better understanding of the situation of blind people in Asia.
We used this opportunity to discuss new ways of educating the blind and came up with some surprising results, such as the establishment of shoemaking workshops.
Together with Pastor Ewert, Chairman and Managing Director of HMB, we agreed to concretize these ideas and take the initiative. Thanks to the many donations of tools that Arbeit und Dritte Welt constantly receives, we are in a position to support the establishment of small workshops.
