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) |
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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 ...
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...
"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...
Report in the Annual Report 2006 (PDF, 1.2 MB) |
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...
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...
“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...
“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...