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Hier finden sich die neuesten Nachrichten, die Dagmar über WhatsApp von Kofi oder Elijah aus Salaga erhält

Oktober 2024

Diese Worte erreichten vor Kurzem Dagmar:

"Greetings Dagmar, I hope you all are doing well over there, we are also good here.
We also harvested so many vegetable from the school garden.
And I happy to tell that, we didn't spend money on vegetable for the school food.
The team is still harvesting more.
We are so grateful all."

August 2024

Diese Worte hat Kofi vor Kurzem an Dagmar gesandt:

"Greetings Dagmar, This is the program sent to you. We had it in the school, all the activities were done by students.
This is done every end of academic year, and it's done to motivate the students and to make them feel at school.
Dou is done every end of acaemic year but this years own was well organized and parents were invited to be part of the program.
For the past years parents will food and some drinks for their kids so that, they bring it to school to share with other students, specially to those whose parents didn't get them something and also with their teachers and on the vacation day.
But after the trip to Accra and also the coming of Dorothea to the school, taking the kids though music some and dancing.
Most of them now have their interest music and dancing.
So we form some groups like culture dance group, debate group and others. So we invited their parents to the school to cheer the students up support us to have a successful program.
Dagmar it is so lovely and all parents students and teachers were very happy.
We wish some of the video will be sent on the page. Cheers"

Juni 2024

"Maize seeds being planted."
"Students being taken through for nursery of plant seed and to be later transplanted."
"The nursing ongoing."

"He did well in his training of students before our start of work on the field."
"This is a gauver that was planted during the dry season is doing so well :)"

Mai 2024

Der Wiederaubauf ist in vollem Gange. Dazu hier einige Fotos und Videos:

Packing aside broken blocks. Students are happy to help in the process.

The finished classrooms.
The volunteer huts being attended to.

Fixing the metal rods to support the building.
Our impressive classrooms under the trees during the period of reconstruction.
Fixing the windows.
The nearly completed classrooms and the fence wall.
The nursery block being worked on by the carpenters.

April 2024

Hallo an alle.
Auch unsere Schule bleibt nicht verschont vom Klimawandel.
Ausgetrocknete Böden einerseits und dann Sturm mit heftigem Regen andererseits.
Ganz Salaga trägt außerordentliche Schäden davon.
Es hat auch St. Peters, unsere Schule dieses Mal äußerst heftig erwischt.
Wieder einmal bitte ich euch, uns ein paar Euro für den Wiederaufbau zu spenden.
Ganz herzlichen Dank dafür, Gruß Dagmar von der WAI

Dezember 2023

"Everything is okay, we started doing something in the garden when we return from the GPI.
One of the teachers we went with was very supportive. He and some of the students are always in the garden.
We planted few plants. I will send you pics and videos of the work in the garden.

They come to the school very early in morning and do what ever they need to do in before school starts, and come back in the evening after school to check it.
I am always in the school, so when they come and I am not busy, we do what ever we need to do together.
We hope this time it will work out."

November 2023

Hier einige Bilder und Videos zum Seminar des Ghana Permanent Culture Institute (GPI), an dem 33 Personen teilgenommen haben.
Da ca. 80 % der Bevölkerung in Salaga in der Landwirtschaft tätig sind, ist das Wissen um "Permanent Culture" umso wichtiger.
Demnächst wird Salaga von einem Mitglied des GPI besucht. Hoffentlich wird das Schulfeld wieder zu neuen Erträgen kommen.

Hinfahrt über den Volta.

How to plant.

Morning gym.

Congratulations: You passed the exame of GPI.

Aufräumen des GPI vor der Rückfahrt.

Aktivitäten aus Salaga

Juni 2023

Dezember 2022

Ausflug in die schmerzvolle Vergangenheit Salagas:
Da viele Sklaven in Salaga blieben, verheiratet wurden oder Feldarbeiten verrichteten, sind die Schüler von heute Nachkommen dieser Sklaven bzw. ihrer Verbindung zur Bevölkerung.

Hier gelangt ihr zu einem Aufsatz dieses Ausflugs - geschrieben von einigen Schülern.

Oktober 2022

Hallo an alle, diese Videos kamen heute mit einem Dankestext.
Das ist Klasse 9, die jetzt abgeht. Sie bedanken sich für die Unterstützung durch uns in Deutschland.
Letztes Jahr hat St. Peter's am besten in der Region abgeschnitten.
Diese Schüler/innen haben jetzt ihre Prüfungen.
Bestimmt werden ihre Resultate auch wieder super sein.
Wir wünschen ihnen alles Gute.

September 2022

"Good afternoon Dagmar! I hope all is well over there, we are also doing very well here.
I am very sorry I couldn't write to you after vacation to update you of the vacation and reopening and also the excursion.
We vacated on 18th of August, and we will reopening on 13th of September 2022.
We also had a meeting with the PTA (=Elternabend), and we spoke about the excursion and they asked us to rather go to Kitanpo, then from Kitanpo we will go to Damago and spend the night there.
The next morning we will go to the Mole national park, and then come back to Tamale. At Tamale we will visit the sports stadium, the airport and come back to Salaga.
We wanted to go on the 12th of last month, but most people didn't pay us at then, only 30 students pay, but the bus is supposed to take 60 to 65 students. So we decided postpone it to next term.

Those are some pictures and videos of the students in the camping. The rooms are not in enough for them, but they are managing them. They are 16 girls using the volunteers huts."

Die Schüler der 9. Klasse machen dieses Jahr die Abschlussprüfung. Sie campieren in den Volotärshütten (16 Mädchen) und in Klassenzimmern.
Bis Oktober studieren sie jeden Tag dort.

Juli 2022

"This was the time they were removing the old floor, because it was very bad.

"We also had some money from the School and added it to the fees you brought to add another class room for the primary side."

"How is everyone over there. Dagmar, I will send you some pictures of the year 9 students preparing for their final exame in October 17/2022. They have written about 3 exams, this one is the fourth one they're writing, they'll still write 2 more before they will go in for the final one in October 17. So for that matter, we are camping with them in the School to get them more prepared."

"The primary students working for the new class room. they're filling the ground of the new class with gravel."

"Also some pictures and videos of the field."

Mai 2022

Dezember 2021

"The end of academic year, is just for children. They came with there food to the school from the house, so that they can share with others.
We only have some music for them to dance."

"The PTA "Elternschaft" supported the school to get two more classrooms".

Juli 2021

Juni 2021

19. Juni

"Good afternoon Dagmar, some pictures of the hat.
We want to reroof it. The old roof has been gone off and it can't be used again, so we bought new ones for it.
This should have been done for long, but we were not getting the teach to buy.
It was yesterday we had some in one village.
Yesterday I went with some students but we could not pick all so today two of the boys come and we for the rest.
Tomorrow they will come and roof it.
Greetings, Kofi."

Bilder der Volontärshütte. Teach = Reeth / Stroh

Die Hütte der Volontäre werden mit neuem Stroh gedeckt.

14. Juni

"Good morning Dagmar, I hope you are doing well.
Is just to inform you that we had the plants last week and we planted them this morning.
We could not plant them last week because the place was hard.
We had rain during the weekend. Greetings from the school to everyone over there."

Blick in Salagas Leben auf dem Schulgelände.

03. Juni

"Good morning Dagmar, how's everyone?
Dagmar, I just want you to know that the children are back to school last two weeks. They went for vacation for two weeks and now they're back, this is the primary kids.
As for the jhs ('Junior High School', Klasse 7-9), they will go on vacation on 7 of next month and also came back within two weeks.
We had few runs and so we have started some thing in the garden. We have prated some yam and maize but the maize did not do, because, the rain has stopped.
So we wait some time for the rain so that we do the maize and also the vegetables.
Greetings to everyone.
...and also COME back...
...we have planted..."

Hier ein paar Bild vom Pflanzen:

April 2021

14. April

Bilder der Mauerabschnitte mit Zaunelementen und das wiedergedeckte Dach der Schule.

05. April

Elijah:
"Here are some files. The pictures above is the current state of the school...just this morning around 11:40 AM a strong wind (whirlwind) caused this disaster."

Dagmar:
"How many buildings got unroofed?"

Elijah:
"The nursery block (the one with the well)."

Dagmar:
"All 3 buildings of the nursery block?"

Elijah;
"Yes, Dagmar."

Dagmar:
"That's horrible. And still no rain?"

Elijah:
"Yeah, no rain."

Dagmar:
"At this moment we haven't got any money. But the repair of the roofs need to be done in a short time, better before a strong rain will destroy walls."

Elijah:
"Exactly, Dagmar."

Dagmar:
"I will inform our sponsors tomorrow."

Katastrophen Alarm (Nachricht von Dagmar):

Hallo an alle,

der Klimawandel setzt deutliche Zeichen in Nordghana.

In Salaga gleich 2 Katastrophen auf einmal.
Seit Monaten gibt es keinen Regen. Inzwischen können die Haushalte sich kanisterweise Wasser von einem Wassertank-Lastwagen kaufen. Das ist ein riesiges Problem. Die Ernte ist inzwischen vertrocknet. Vielleicht nicht die Yamswurzeln, aber das ganze Gemüse.

Und dann gestern früh noch ein Wirbelsturm. Er hat von 3 Gebäuden die Dächer abgehoben. Der Schaden ist immens. Es betrifft die U3 Klasse, und den Kindergarten 1 und 2.

Es ist zwar gut, dass nun wirklich der Regen innerhalb der nächsten Tage zu erwarten ist, aber...der Regen wird die Mauern zerstören, wenn nicht sozusagen SOFORT neue Dächer auf die Gebäude gesetzt werden.

Katastrophen Alarm:
Bitte spendet.
Diese Extraspende wird direkt geschickt, damit die Arbeiten sofort beginnen können. Bitte schreibt das Stichwort 'Katastrophenhilfe' auf eure Überweisung.

Oben könnt ihr den Telegram-Wortwechsel zwischen Elijah und mir lesen. Elijah hat die pädagogische Leitung der Schule (Kofi die Verwaltung, Peter Tsinagyei -Vater von Kofi - hat die Schule gegründet).

DANKE für alle Spender!

Grüße Dagmar

Konto: Sparkasse Aachen, IBAN: DE59 3905 0000 1070 1336 89

02. April

Kofi:
"It has not rained up till date.
There is serious draught here in Salaga. We are relaying on the service of water tanks to get water in our homes...really serious."

März 2021

23. März

Dagmar:
"Hello, good evening. I hope everyone is doing well. How are things over there? Dagmar."

Kofi:
"We have received the money, we are grateful Dagmar, please extend our greetings to all the supposers. Tomorrow I will give Fati, Vero and the other teachers own to them. Good night, Kofi."

Dagmar:
"We are very happy and hope that you can finish the fence with it. Greetings from WAI team and all sponsors."

09. März

Kofi:
"Hello Dagmar, I write to inform you that our students have had their BECE results and they all passed very well...in addition, they have all been placed in very good secondary schools. We are really happy about this development and deem it necessary to put you in the know. Greetings!"

Dagmar:
"Great. We are very proud of all the students and all the teachers who helped our students to this fantastic result. And of course our heartly thanks go to Kofi, who was constantly busy for everybody to support the classes run in this difficult time. Our respect to all of you. Greetings Dagmar."

Kofi:
"We are greatful for the complements...we shall continue to work harder to achieve greater heights."

Februar 2021

Seit zwei Monaten sind die Wassertanks leer, die örtliche Wasserleitung kaputt.
Täglich kauft Kofi Wasser in Kanistern aus der Stadt. Es wird zum Gießen, Waschen, Kochen etc. verwendet.

Auf den Fotos sind die angelegten Beete mit Karotten, Tomaten und anderem Gemüse zu sehen.
Die Sonne ist sehr stechend. Man gibt sich viel Mühe mit dem Pflanzen.
Demnächst wird (hoffentlich) wieder das Wasser aus den Wasserleitungen kommen. Die Leitungen sind aktuell defekt.
Hoffentlich regnet es auch bald. Die Regenzeit dauert von April bis Juni sowie September / Oktober. Die letzte Regenzeit hörte zusätzlich früher als bisher auf (Klimawandel?!).
Natürlich ist viel Geld für Wasser verwendet worden. Der Zaun, der um das Feld gezogen wurde, ist deshalb noch nicht fertig. Es fehlen Zement-Verstärkungen zwischen einzelnen Abschnitten.