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Violence from Pollitical Extremists
I´m from an nice little town in the middle of Germany with 125.000 inhabitants, Göttingen. Normally everythings nice and quiet here, but there have been some events in the last few years that were a bit disturbing.
The thing is that Göttingen is a center of radical left wing activism, which sometimes is militant and violent.
Just recently we had a small bomb attack at a local government building. It was nothing big and nothing lethal, but it was still an act of political violence…
Continue Posted on April 16, 2010 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments
Rural women - key to economic growth
This article talks about the importance of women in rural communities.
Given the fact that they often are the chief executives of their areas and that on a global scale women cultivate more than half of the food that is grown on the earth it is astonishing that they are overlooked by most development strategies.
Even though there is the third millenium goal that sets the goal of promoting gender equality and empowering woman and several conferences held by the UN (e.g. one in…
Continue Posted on April 13, 2010 at 5:30pm
Bambali
Bambali is a German website on which people can trade goods against goods of approximately the same value.
The project was started in 2004 and has since become very successful. One can trade everything on bambali no matter wether it´s goods or services.
If one decides to trade something it is possible to trade either directly good or service against good or service or via the virtual currency "Bam".
This currency can be saved on a virtual account until it…
Continue Posted on April 8, 2010 at 8:25pm
Helping Shoeblack in La Paz
What I read about Mahila Milan reminded me very much of one part of the social work I´ll be doing for one year in La Paz. I´ll be working with shoeblacks helping them in every way I can. One of the biggest parts of the project is about saving money.
Those people are too poor to open a bank account on their own, no bank would let them. Often they don´t even have passports so that it is absolutely impossible to save money in a bank.
Instead they can give the money they want to save…
Continue Posted on April 8, 2010 at 7:47pm
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