Thank You ‘New Faces New Voices’ from Uganda and South Africa, for joining berlinisghts touring thru Berlin! The giant monument of 1935 shows the Federal Ministry of Finance at Leipziger street (former Air Ministry) with VIII departments, led by 18% women in upper positions O N L Y … (they could do with some NFNV support :-). Our visitors felt some modesty when alerted to The German chancellor’s private address near Museum Island, ending close to the hardly noticed read light of 1924, a replique at Leipziger Platz.
“… What a lovely morning we spent with Susanne. A knowledgeable, informative and charming guide to a fascinating inner corner of Berlin that we certainly would not have discovered by ourselves….”
… say our New Zealanders who enjoyed Berlin’s Engelbecken in Kreuzberg: fresh Mint tea with enjoyable Turkish service and autumn sun at the www.cafe-am-engelbecken.de. For a walking tour at part of former “Luisenstädtischer Canal” along Erkelenzdamm, Segitzer Damm and similar “Damm” streets to Michaelkirchplatz, You are almost in walking distance to “Ostbahnhof” some 2 km further – for guided tours, contact berlinsights :-).
Middle Eastern research group enjoying Kreuzberg’s hip location „Strauss“ coffee shop at the former morgue of the Friedrichwerderscher Protestant Cemetery, Bergmannstr.42 – 44.
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
– auf der Suche nach “April-April”-Fischen, Lomé, Togo
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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. . . 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
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