Monday, December 14th, 2009
After hours of selection and post-preparation, the first photos of 2009 for the Kaule project are online. Photo subtitles and descriptions will be added gradually.
Hence, for those who want to take a first glance, just go and check out the photo gallery in preparation.
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
On Thursday, September 11th 2008, Alina Schick and Patrick Joisten took part for the first time at the regular round table of the German-Nepali-Society e.V. in Cologne representing our association and its board. The meeting was directed by the Nepal honorary consul of Cologne, Mr. Ram Pratap Thapa. This meeting, open for all people interested in Nepal, takes place every second Thursday of the month. More information is presented on the society’s website www.deutsch-nepal.de. During the September meeting we were able to present our project in Kaule. Our listeners were openly interested and showed great attention. They gave us useful advice as well as extra information and appreciation of the actual situation in the country.
Mr. Thapa offered to have a two page report about our project and our association in the next issue of “Nepal –Information”, a magazine published twice year by the society. The article is being prepared. Beyond this the consul invited us to attend to the Nepali “Festival of Lights”, organized by the society on November 2nd in Cologne, and to the meeting of NGOs, involved in the Nepal development, taking place in Cologne on November15th.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
A couple of members of our association took part in an event called “So close and yet so far away – Development Politics create new Perspectives” with Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germanys Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, in the “LVR-Horionhouse” of Cologne-Deutz.
The minister – by the way the senior among the federal ministers, holding office since 1998 – declared in her opening speech as well as during the following interesting and partly critical and controversial panel discussion, how important the hereby created continuity is concerning country and government as well as international connections, and that the German Federal Parliament increased the budget of her ministry despite the financial reductions in all other political areas in order to slowly consolidate the federal budget. The concrete spending of money by the ministry and the objectives will be concentrated and selected according to the eight millennium criteria for development aid agreed upon by the United Nations. In order to accomplish more efficiency projects will be internationally coordinated.
The four Cologne Members of Parliament (Dr. Rolf Mützenich, Marti Dörmann, Dr. Lale Akgün and Prof. Karl Lauterbach) who hat invited to this event later sent a letter to the minister and her ministry in which they personally recommended our project. We thank them for this and hope for cooperation with the ministry.
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