Middle Eastern research group enjoying Kreuzberg’s hip location „Strauss“ coffee shop at the former morgue of the Friedrichwerderscher Protestant Cemetery, Bergmannstr.42 – 44.
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Summer in Togo and Berlin 2014
Togolese greetings from Kpalimé…
Zam-Ké de Kpalimé: l’arrivée d’Aimée Abra Tenu, jeune Togolaise ayant crée l’organisation STEJ à son retour en mi-2012 à but non-lucratif et non-gouvernemental (ONG), “Zam-Ké” tout court veut dire: réuse-moi!
Cette activité génératrice de revenu est une valorisation des déchets plastiques tels que les sachets d’eau qui se trouvent en millions sur les rues de Lomé et ailleurs. Zam-Ké, avec trois ateliers entre Lomé, Kpalimé et Tsevié, concevoit d’autres activités et produits à venir, avec des femmes telle que la femme entrepreneur ci-dessus, toute fière de ses propres produits, voir
http://www.bibliosansfrontieres.org/index.php?option=com_k2
A la recherche des poissons d’avril
– auf der Suche nach “April-April”-Fischen, Lomé, Togo
Phone boots in Africa
Phone boots in Africa, having virtually disappeared throughout the West-African region, can no longer be discovered along Lomé streets. In their beauty and persistence hardly compatible with today’s vital mobile phone market of striving young people, literally everybody is „mobile“ today. Kiosks have hence lost their purpose. Abandoning stone-like stability has been a decade-long path, and has replaced quick wins for unemployed youth:
La boîte téléphonique en Afrique ne se voit plus dans les rues de Lomé, ayant quasiment disparu dans toute la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Pas réellement compatible dans leur beauté et perséverance avec le marché de la téléphonie mobile d’aujourd’hui, les jeunes sont tous „mobiles“ virtuellement. La raison d’être des boîtes téléphoniques n’y est plus. Le ‚longue marché’ d’abandon de ce qui paraît durable a remplacé l’approche gagnant-gagnant pour la jeunesse en chômage:
„Maintenant avec les chinois, tout le monde achète le téléphone.“
(témoin p.30)
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Winter in Berlin 2014
. . . does not feel cold these days! And even less so for berlinsights creator Susanne who just moved to Lomé, Togo in West Africa, to assist German Development Cooperation at 29 degrees to get youth into jobs! Quite a jump for her, as courageous as Jonti from New Zealand when visiting Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial lately! While he left for completing his studies, the Togoan people will sharpen their vocational skills and their technical and social education systems towards more and better jumps to make their upgrading efforts sustain! You will read in dialogic inquiry, every now and then, about the people of Togo! Continue reading
Happy New Year 2014
In Berlin Booklets
…there is a series of small pocket guides for all Berliners and Berlin visitors! “In Berlin” lets You discover Schöneberg district, the areas of “Kreuzberg 36”, “Bergmannkiez bis Urbanhafen” or “City West Savignyplatz”. All booklets are free of charge and subject to Your neighborhood interests.
Available here: http://www.in-berlin-online.de/
AUTUMN in BERLIN
“rivers and lakes around Berlin these days slowly greet the cooler winter season, open for all water wonders and bird watchers. For special outings and hidden corners, ask berlinsights!”
Hindu Temple Berlin, September Opening
This is the first Hindu temple created by the Hindu community in Berlin:
http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/erster-hindu-tempel-berlins-oeffnet,10809148,24237668.html
berlinsights paid an extended visit to Berlin’s first Hindu temple inaugurated in Neukoellen/Britz in September 2013. It was a sunny day with hundreds of visitors from nearby and abroad, both contributing to making teh atmosphere special!
The floating garbage collectors
Chased-away trash like bottles, broken bikes and dead dogs in plastic bags: this is only some of the environmental waste thrown into the rivers of Berlin. An impressive analysis of garbage items is collected daily between the Landwehr canal and the river Spree. With yearly 450 tons of things thrown without care into the waters of our city, the two municipal employees Richard and Waldemar do their back-breaking job on a motorized Catamaran, eight meters long and one of three such floating garbage collectors. They do not complain, they just do their job.
excerpt from taz, die tageszeitung 19.08.2013