Dear BRAVE-AURORA- friends,
today was the first meeting for the training centre. The teachers for the selected participators intruduced themselves and talked about their business. The pupils are going to learn (in groups) about tailoring, hair-dressing, soap-making and tie and dye.
The BRAVE AURORA-team, the teachers and the selected participators in front of the training centre.
The selected participators:
The teachers:
Greetings from Guabuliga,
Katharina & Sarah
Dear BRAVE AURORA - friends,
once a week the sensitization about orphans, called "YoungAmbassadorProgramm", takes place in Guabuliga. Six orphans and six parents were selected as ambassadors and learnt a few weeks ago how to speak in the public. Now they have already visited the six areas of Guabuliga to speak about the reasons why family care is better than orphanage care and they shared their own experiences with the community. In the next weeks and months they are going to visit other villages around Guabuliga in order to spread the massage.
Right now the BRAVE AURORA-Team is also busy preparing the training-centre programs, which are going to start in the next few weeks. We are going to tell you about the news then.
Sarah & Katharina
Dear BRAVEAURORA-friends,
Since the 27th of May, we (Katharina & Sarah) are staying in Guabuliga and doing our internship here. We are both from Austria and studying together at the University of Applied Science 'Social Work' in Linz. Our internship is going to end in the middle of August, so there are only a few weeks left for staying at this beautiful place. The first weeks have been full of emotions and new impressions, but now we have both the feeling that we have arrived.
Like you see on the picture, we try to discover the northern part of Ghana on the weekends.
From Monday to Friday we are working in Guabuliga with the two social workers, Madam Suzie and Madam Eklimatu. Part of our work is to visit the reintegrated orphans at their homes and to look after their wellbeing. We take part on different BRAVEAURORA-projects, like the Young-Ambassador-Program or the trainings-centre and help where we can. Every day in the evening we offer basic-english-lessons for the adults from Guabuliga. It is also really interesting to get in contact with other organizations, for example the Department of Social Welfare in Walewale and to discuss different topics. So you see, we have a lot of things to do... :)
Bye for now,
Katharina & Sarah
