Reports

Reports from our projects

On air - a radio and school project in Switzerland

foto: Vier SchülerInnen der Schule in Müllheim im Radiobus

This week, class is quite different in Müllheim’s secondary school. The radio team meets at 9 o’clock. Its twelve members go over yesterday’s broadcasts, discuss the programme for today and assign each member a job. Anna and Anna... This year's report presents a radio and school project in Switzerland, namely in Müllheim in the canton of Thurgovia.

 

Report in the Annual Report 2009 (PDF, 5MB) | (PDF, 3 MB)

 

Guatemala - Trogen - Guatemala

Young people discussing

Agustín stands in front of his class in Pueblo Nuevo – the "New Village". His students are future teachers who have just returned from a four-month practical term during which they taught primary school children. The two Guatemalans Agustín and Yeshing were the first students to join the 2007 training course emPower in the Children’s Village in Trogen. Today, they teach young people in Guatemala ...

 

Leitet Herunterladen der Datei einReport in the Annual Report 2008 (PDF, 5MB) | Leitet Herunterladen der Datei ein(PDF, 2MB)

The arduous road to education - Laos & Thailand

photo: girl from Laos with traditional costume

Distances are large in Laos. It is a nine hours’ drive from Luang Prabang, the tourist city in Laos for all purposes, and Long, 400 kilometres away, in the northernmost part of the country, just one hill away from the Chinese border. The drive to the project area takes another four hours...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiReport in the Annual Report 2007 (PDF, 4.2 MB) |

The independent spirit of a people - A journey through Eritrea

photo: Girl from Asmara with a lot of pens in her hand

"Is that a school?" Rehaset’s index finger moves on the postcard to a house in the old town of Berne in Switzerland. Immediately she is surrounded by a crowd of children...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiReport in the Annual Report 2006 (PDF, 1.2 MB) |

 

Poverty on Europe's doorstep - Romania

photo: Kids in a play school in Romania

Some 15 years after the fall of Ceauçescu, whose communist regime held the country in grip for 24 years, the gap between the rich and the poor is bigger than ever. Today, the country is ruled by Ceauçescu’s second guard who had already enjoyed privileges during the communist era. A new class has emerged: the nouveau riches...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiReport in the Annual Report 2005 (PDF 1.6 MB) |

Being different is something positive - Living in the Children's Village

photo: Laughing boy, living in the Children's Village

5340 minus 160? With one click of the mouse the computer immediately confirms the answer: 5180. Joël was right. At school this morning, he has already worked on twelve maths problems and got eight of them right. The twelve-year-old opens his diary. “I’ve finished my homework”. Slouched over his desk, Joël writes slowly. While staring out the window, he tries to find the words to express himself. This young boy finds German difficult...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiAnnual Report 2004 (PDF, 1.3 MB) |

A colourful, yet hard life - Central America

photo: Two laughing boys sitting at their school desk, El Salvador

“Piedra pintada” means painted stone. The municipality was given this name be-cause of its lime deposits. A large part of the population earns its living from the pro-duction of lime. But it is back-breaking work. The raw material – a black stone – is placed in a lime kiln, where it is baked for three days under constant heat provided by a sawdust-fuelled fire. The stone turns white and crumbles to dust, but the smoke emissions are black. Children help their fathers...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiReport in the Annual Report 2003 (PDF, 1 MB) |

Notice differences and respect them - Serbia

photo: Serbs and Roma in a workshop

“Uocite razlike” or “Notice differences - and respect them. If it were not for differences, we would be all the same”, screams this brightly coloured poster. For society, for the country. With war and fear never far from their thoughts, the people of Serbia approach each other gingerly. So much has been destroyed...

 

Startet das Herunterladen der DateiReport in the Annual Report 2002 (PDF , 1 MB) |

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