Setting Sails for Partner-Ships

Youth Exchange 2018

29. April – 14. May

Setting Sails for Partner-Ships

Noer • Hamburg • Berlin

Germany

Setting Sails for Partner-Ships

  • The Accra team members who were not allowed to travel to Germany
  • Our protest against visa refusals outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt) in Berlin
  • Our protest against visa refusals outside the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin
  • Podcast recording at Noer Castle at the Baltic Sea
  • Our first brainstorming workshop on SDGs
  • Our play day with the Falkenflitzer playbus team
  • A day out at Dove Elbe with other children and young people from Hamburg
  • A meeting with Knut Fleckenstein (Member of the European Parliament)
  • Meeting with Manuel Sarrazin - Member of the Bundestag

 

The e.p.a. “A different Triangle” youth cooperation project (2007-2010) encouraged young people to become even more active in their communities – taking over responsibility. Many months ago these new “leaders” wished and proposed to revitalise and activate our international cooperation with another exchange project, to create opportunities for “their” young people! This was the initial motivation to propose our new exchange project “Setting Sails for Partner-Ships”.

Act for Change in Accra (Ghana) and e.p.a. in Hamburg (Germany) put their heads together, identified topics of mutual interests and looked for possible funding ooportunities. Finally we achieved to receive a weltwärts grant (extracurricular exchange projects in the context of Agenda 2030).

Our bi-lateral youth exchange project looks into concepts for fair global partnerships, based on equal rights and solidarity, essential for sustainable development. Implementing the goal practically by developing participative, playful methods, working with youth in the communities, e.g. interactive theatre.

During the project we will work on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals – especially on goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals. We want to explore the Goals – also with a critical look –, we want to find answers to our questions and inform many other people about the SDGs!

The project highlights will be two youth exchanges: 2018 in Germany and the reverse visit in Ghana in 2019.

It is planned to prepare and facilitate workshops and presentations. We will meet politicians and activists to discuss, to inform ourselves and of course to communicate our ideas and demands. During our alternative city tours in Hamburg and Accra, we will also learn about the colonial heritage of our cities. We organize intercultural evenings with many guests, who we would like to impress with our cooking skills and intercultural presentations. With different project visits, we want to make multifaceted civil society engagement visible.

This project is funded by

the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development

the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

23. November 2020

Hope to Cope

e.p.a. partners share insights from their communities. Today: Samuel from Act for Change (Accra)

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17. May 2018

Visa Refusals for Participants from Ghana

Only the group leader was allowed to come to Germany

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network partners in this Youth Exchange

AfC

Accra

e.p.a.

Hamburg