Sonja Prinz

Global learning in Berlin is fun!

Sonja Prinz — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:18:00 +0000

Flyer design Anja Okwuazu

Africa Youth Days

Sonja Prinz — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 05:29:06 +0000

On August 11, 2019, we opened the AfricaYouthDays on Leopoldplatz with a public festival, which takes place in the style of the Africa Youth Day. Invited were all initiatives, associations, groups and of course the inhabitants.

The event was a clear commitment to tolerance and peaceful coexistence, but also a clear commitment against discrimination, racism and all forms of exclusion.
he opening festival was supported by : Aktion Mensch, Aktionsgruppenprogramm- Engagement Global, Quartiersmanagement Pankstr., Stadtteilkasse Berlin Wedding

Africa Youth Weeks

Empowering Weeks in Berlin/Germany

In September and October, events and workshops on the topics:
Inclusion, start-ups and ESD will take place at various locations in Berlin and Brandenburg. The focus is on young people and there are offers tailored to them. Education officers Individuals and organisations network and can evaluate their work together.

Program:

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WITH SPOKEN WORD AGAINST RACISM

“Mit spoken Word gegen Rassismus” is a workshop of the Innitiative Perspektivenwechsel. More information here

The speakers* of the initiative Perspektivenwechsel offer an interactive history workshop for young people aged 12 – 21. Together we will travel back in time to Cameroon. The Central African country was a German colony for 35 years. Through comics, pictures as well as audio and video material, the participants learn about various strategies of anti-colonial resistance from Cameroon. It is urgent to talk with children about racist discrimination as early as possible. In this way, racist exclusion patterns are exposed and critically examined. Older pupils* reflect on their own position and responsibility.

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Would you like to think like a billion-dollar company?

Have you ever wondered how billion dollar companies like Snapchat, Instagram and Google brainstorm to develop and bring their great new ideas to market?
Or imagine a future:

In which you print your clothes at home 3d?
Where drones have replaced liefarando?
Where there are no more streets and wars are only a bad dream?
Welcome to the concept of Design Thinking.
HERE WE ARE DESTROYING TODAY AND REVOLUTIONIZING THE FUTURE.
With Design Thinking you can change the world.

Speaker Thomas Gitonga Kalunge M. Sc.

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BUILD A BOTTLE WALL

Inspired by the wonderfully creative Earthship buildings in which people live self-sufficiently with nature’s resources, we build a wall of bottles and clay straw together. We will focus on what is fascinating to create from recycled materials and how to obtain them. At the same time we learn a very old technique, namely the environmentally friendly building with clay and straw, as it was traditionally used in many parts of the world and why it is experiencing a renaissance in Germany today. We stamp clay with our feet and build a wall with our hands. Cutting bottles with the bottle cutter can inspire you to do whatever you can with empty bottles.

During the practical workshop we get inputs from garden co-users again and again, e.g. a short excursion into ecological building with straw, stone, hemp, clay and wood. We will explore the risks of microplastics and together we will look for alternatives to plastic and other materials. What are the benefits of reusing used materials instead of buying new ones, and what global impact would a change in consumer behaviour have? The basic principles of permaculture will also be an important input, as the workshop will take place in the permaculture garden.

Africa Youth Day Gala

We are very happy to announce our closing event of the Africa Youth Days. On November 1st, the Africa Youth Day proclaimed by the African Union. More info will follow soon.

www.africa-youth-day.com

Sustainable Development Goals

Sonja Prinz — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 21:47:00 +0000

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

With the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations call for a better future for our world: to ensure good nutrition and a poverty-free world by 2030. In addition, the SDG’s promote access to quality education and health for all. 139 countries have signed this future treaty known as “Agenda 2030”.

LEARN MORE

Global New Generation is creating several didactic materials, such as the online learning platform GNG Homeschool, Workshops to arise awareness and to encourage engagement.

Football in the GNG Gambia

Sonja Prinz — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:13:15 +0000

What a great football tournament today. The kids were very motivated with their new jerseys! At this point a huge thank you to the Clubheim BSC REHBERGE and the FSV Babelsberg 74 e.V.! To the Team of @Global New Generation Berlin Collecting all the stuff, Global New Generation Gambia Team, especially Jack Conteh sending it charge free and safe to the Gambia. Also a huge thank you for the Trainers in Gambia, Alex Dawda Samateh and Pabittaye and all others trying so hard to Take the Kids away from the streets. And not to forget our chairman of the GNG Gambia and chairwoman of the GNG int, bringing us all together and pushing it all the time.

Was für ein tolles Fußballturnier heute. Die Kinder waren sehr motiviert mit ihren neuen Trikots! An dieser Stelle ein großes Dankeschön an den @BSV Babelsberg und die FSV Rehberge 74! An das Team von @Global New Generation Berlin die all die Sachen eingesammelt haven, Global New Generation GambiaTeam, speziell Jack Conteh see die Sachen kostenlos und sicher nach Gambia geschafft hat. Auch ein herzliches Dankeschön an die Trainer in Gambia, Alex Dawda Samateh und Pabittaye und alle anderen die sich so toll einsetzen um die Kids von den Straßen zu holen. Und nicht zu vergessen unser Vorsitzender der GNG Gambia und Vorsitzende der GNG int, die uns alle zusammenbringen und die Mission immer wieder antreiben.

Visit at the Edward Francis Small Teaching hospital Banjul

Sonja Prinz — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:42:42 +0000

(English)

The GNG Gambia Team went to visit the Edward Francis Small Teaching hospital Banjul to learn about the hospital the condition and needs. Vanessa from Germany was excited, when the representatives told her, she can work as a volunteer for 3 weeks time while she was in Gambia as a physiotherapist. She will write a report to GNG in order to inform and invite more volunteers who live and work within the Global New Generation Network.

(German)
Das GNG Gambia Team hat heute das Edwuard Francis Small Teaching Krankenhaus in Banjul besucht, um sich über die Konditionen der Arbeit vor Ort zu informieren and zu erfahren, wie wir helfen können. Vanessa hat sich total gefreut, als die Verantworlichen ihr einen Praktikumsplatz in der Physiotherapie für den Rest ihres Aufenthaltes zugesagt haben. Sie wird darüber einen Bericht schreiben, damit zukünftige Freiwillige erfahren wie es ist im GNG Netzwerk zu leben/Wohnen und zu arbeiten.

Farmers in Kounoune

Sonja Prinz — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:22:04 +0000

Kounoune belongs to the district of Rufisque and is one hour from Dakar. The urbanization of the city of Dakar is progressing incredibly fast. An area of over 200km around the city center is covered with new buildings, land prices are rising very fast, farmers and their fields are disappearing at this same pace.
On dec 2nd.17 we visited the farmers of Kounoune for the first time: carrots, peppers, diakhatou peppers, onions green beans … they grow naturally and without chemical fertilizers. Farmers have founded a GIE to survive alongside big exporters like Gafari. Once a week they go to the wholesale markets Thiaroye and Castor in Dakar to sell their vegetables there. You have to rent a truck, also the water to irrigate the fields has to be paid, as well as the workers to order the fields. But their GIE has a bank account, she takes loans to local banks with tough conditions. The money will then be distributed to the farmers and paid back to the bank after 6 months including the 10% fee. If one of the farmers does not pay back in time, no one from the farmers group can get money for the next few months; means some fields remain empty. The Farmers’ Leader wants to participate in training sessions for farmers, who regularly take place in Israel and Italy, in order to sustainably improve the living conditions of farmers in Kounoune.
On dec 5th.17 GNG Senegal were with the president of the farmers in the Chamber of Commerce of Dakar. We have entered the organization of farmers in the database so that they find ways to increase their business. Mme Gaye Head of Department, advised Mr. the farmers president on the distribution / export of agricultural products and promised to agree on the conditions inquired about the purchase of the organic label. Then we met the leaders of the Global Ecovillage. They will visit the fields and study the situation on the ground.
On dec 12th.17 there was another meeting with Khaly Mbengue in the fields of the farmers of Kounoune for a rough situation analysis.

Visit a l’ecole de Kounoune

Sonja Prinz — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 21:13:54 +0000

Today we handed over the donations from the parents of Berlin students and we talked about conditions in elementary school, Kounoune. The school has 800 students 11 French teachers, two Arabic teachers, which means that teachers are often in a class with 70 pupils. Water is a problem in school, they have an electric pump that uses solar energy. SDE distributes water in Kounoune, but not everywhere, there are many houses without water. There were residents who started stealing water at school, which meant that the pump stopped working properly. The school has a key pump, but it is broken. Since the state does not pay any school water bills, the pump is the only source of water for 800 students. Often there is only water at noon. The school garden can not be cultivated due to lack of water. And there are children who come to school without eating. The staff room is occupied by the caretaker, as the state does not pay the caretaker a salary, the parents have tried to contribute, but that is not enough to rent a room. So he sleeps in the staff room. There is an IT room that does not work either. In principle, teachers are involved, but their hands are bound by conditions that must be solved by the Senegalese government.

Heute haben wir die Spenden der Eltern von Berliner Schülern übergeben und wir haben über Unterrichtsbedingungen in der Grundschule, Kounoune gesprochen. Die Schule hat 800 Schüler 11 Französischlehrer, zwei Arabischlehrer, was dazu führt, dass die Lehrer oft mit 70 Schülern in einer Klasse sind. Wasser ist ein Problem in der Schule, sie haben eine elektrische Pumpe, die mit Solarenergie arbeitet. SDE vertreibtWasser in Kounoune, aber nicht überall, es gibt viele Häuser ohne Wasser. Es gab Anwohner, die in der Schule Wasser zu stehlen begannen, das hatte zur Folge, das die Pumpe nicht mehr richtig funktioniert. Die Schule hat eine Schlüsselpumpe, aber sie ist kaputt. Da der Staat keine Schulwasserrechnungen bezahlt, ist die Pumpe die einzige Wasserquelle für 800 Schüler. Oft gibt es nur ab Mittag Wasser. Der Schulgarten kann wegen Wassermangel nicht kultiviert werden. Und da sind Kinder die ohne zu essen zur Schule kommen. Das Lehrerzimmer wird vom Hausmeister bewohnt, da der Staat dem Hausmeister kein Gehalt zahlt, die Eltern haben versucht, etwas beizutragen, aber das ist zu wenig um ein Zimmer zu mieten. Also schläft er im Lehrerzimmer. Es gibt einen IT-Raum, der auch nicht funktioniert. Grundsätzlich sind Lehrer engagiert, aber ihre Hände sind durch Bedingungen gebunden, die von der senegalesischen Regierung gelöst werden müssen.

The hospital in Kounoune

Sonja Prinz — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:48:07 +0000

Today, the team of GNG Senegal handed over donations from GNG Germany to the hospital in Kounoune

Global Soccer Kids

Sonja Prinz — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 08:38:36 +0000

Play with “We Kicken” to promote respect, tolerance and peace

Click the link bellow to see our first donations

thanks to:

BSC Rehberge 1945 e.V

FSV Babelsberg 74 e.v.

The first batches of donations go to Global New Generation Gambia and Global New Generation Kenya

Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg: 17year old brutally beaten by 4 adult men

Sonja Prinz — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:59:18 +0000

Deutsche Version

As a worried mother I am turning to you and asking you for your cooperation:

I want just punishment for those men, who beat up and kicked my 17 year old son due to the colour of his skin so that he landed in hospital !

I want to cast out my cry for help as far and wide as possible in order to raise attention to the growing racial violence in our country!

I want that any form of racism be it verbal racial or any other form be punished!

I never again want to have to listen to a sentence like: ” I am not racist, but…”

I want that our government finally comprehends the seriousness of the situation and that plans are finally made and implemented to ban racism from our minds bit by bit !

This is what happened:

On the 26th of November, after a restless night of worrying and waiting for my 17 year old son, he finally came home, very pale, around 6.30 am. he immediately went to bed , and I just thought : let him have a good sleep, he’ll get his telling-off in the morning. Around midday he emerged from his room and could not move his arm, anymore, the tip of a bone pierced from underneath the skin on his shoulder and he had several bruises. The family overran him with questions, which he just avoided saying that he couldn’t remember anything. We scolded him but he insisted that he could not remember what happened; he said he was out with friends and went home around 1.30 am and could not believe it when we told him that it was 6.30 am. We thought he had maybe fallen , maybe he was ashamed and does not want to tell his parents what happened, maybe he had had too much to drink but we could get nothing more out of him -except: ” I think I was beaten by some Nazis but I don’t remember exactly”. I took him to the hospital while his older sister started to contact all his friends to find out what really had happened. After a very long wait in the emergency room, he was finally x-rayed. We were told the collar bone was broken, we should present ourselves at the surgery office hours on Monday to get an appointment for surgery.

When we arrived home in the evening, the big sister had found out from several friends that my son had been beaten up by several men. There was a girl and a boy who were with my son at the time of the crime. The girl knew my son and I immediately contacted her; she was also under shock and told me everything that she could remember- she had ran for safety and could only add a few more pieces to the puzzle but promised me to get the number of the boy who was also present as witness and who was a remotely acquainted with my son. On Sunday, my son was feeling unwell, his shoulder was hurting and he also had pain in the head and was dizzy. I began to fear that it could be more than just the broken collar bone. On Sunday evening, I finally got the phone number of the boy and, even though it was already quite late, I could reach him. He then told me what exactly happened, and both he and the girl promised to come with me to the police on Monday and to file a complaint against unknown persons. And this is what happened in the night of 26.11.2016, and what the youths also reported as testimony:

In the night of 25. to 26.11, around 4.00am, my 17 year old son of afro-european descent was, together with two friends (a boy from Azerbaijan/Iran and a German girl) at the tram station of the M10 at Hussenstr. Four men (approx. 25-35 years old) joined them and blocked the way of the youths as they wanted to go and get some drinks at the kiosk “we love Späti” . Two men were of medium size (approx. 1,80 m), one of them was wearing jeans, black jacket, and middle sized cap turned upward and underneath Stand London, his hair was shaved- probably bald. There was a very tall man (approx. 2,00m), with short brown hair (6-7cm) and a full beard, black jeans and jacket, and a very small man of approx. 1,60m. the men asked what the boys were doing here with the girl and that they should take the girl home now if they were gentlemen. The girl immediately retreated. The boys had some small talk with the men , but as these were under the influence of alcohol and were acting somewhat strange , they wanted to leave as soon as possible. While the boy was talking to two men, my son was saying goodbye to the other two. That’s when the tall man lifted his arm to do the Hitler greeting and said that this was the way to say goodbye in Germany. My son asked him what this supposed to mean and that this was not okay, and a heated discussion sparked up which quickly got out of control and let to incursions. The boy only saw that my son ran away as fast as he could , but he didn’t see the other man who forcefully pushed him between the parked cars and onto the ground. The other three men joined him and they kicked my son, and although he was lying on the ground and couldn’t get up anymore, they continued to kick him. His friend called out:” Leave him alone, he is already on the ground!” In that moment, a man on a bicycle and his girlfriend passed , the boy cried for help, the bike rider stopped, and the men fled in direction Prenzlauer Allee. The man helped my son to get up , the young girl came back and offered my son money to take a taxi home , but he said, no it’s ok, and walked off. As it was already very late and all the youths were under shock – “it all happened so quickly , we didn’t even recognize how serious the situation was”- and they all went home. from Hussemannstr. to our house, it only takes 10 minutes by tram; it took my son two and a half hours and he cannot remember how he got home. He is now in-patient at the hospital, his head is being examined and he is getting a surgery on his collarbone.

Although my son’s friends made a great effort and explained everything as clearly and detailed as possible, they still cannot exactly remember these men. We would appreciate every piece of information.

The visit at the police station was very sobering. The woman, who recorded the testimonials, was very concerned but we still decided to get matters into our hands. Together with the youths, I drove back to the scene of the crime and asked around in the nearby shops if they maybe had CCTV cameras. The salesman in the Späti shop was very attentive and helpful; on the same weekend, they also had been attacked by three armed men, one of who was strikingly tall. The shop owner promised to look through the CCTV recordings.

The young girl has also told me that verbal attacks on my son because of his skin colour have been accumulating, recently.

I am not a politician, I am only a very concerned mother, who is watching in horror as racially motivated violence in our city, and as far as I can see in our country, is growing. Something has to happen finally, people like this have to be punished- and even racial comments have to be punished more seriously!

All my children have been already often badmouthed and insulted with words like ” Neger, dirty etc.”, and we would hope to think that it is getting better as we have been defending ourselves for years, have been seeking the dialogue with teachers, parents etc.- ad still, I am left with the horrible feeling that racism is presently bursting into bloom and becoming much worse than 5 years ago!!!!

We have to do something and we have to do it together, otherwise no one will listen to us!

Sonja Prinz

Thank you for translation: Reka Kamaromi

Sonja Prinz

Global learning in Berlin is fun!

Africa Youth Days

Africa Youth Weeks

Program:

_______________________________________________WITH SPOKEN WORD AGAINST RACISM

_______________________________________________Would you like to think like a billion-dollar company?

_______________________________________________BUILD A BOTTLE WALL

Africa Youth Day Gala

www.africa-youth-day.com

Sustainable Development Goals

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

Football in the GNG Gambia

Visit at the Edward Francis Small Teaching hospital Banjul

Farmers in Kounoune

Visit a l’ecole de Kounoune

The hospital in Kounoune

Global Soccer Kids

Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg: 17year old brutally beaten by 4 adult men

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WITH SPOKEN WORD AGAINST RACISM

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Would you like to think like a billion-dollar company?

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BUILD A BOTTLE WALL