It’s been only a month that I spent here in Ghana, but Elmina already feels like home. Here I am living in a room in the house of the director of AIM Ghana, Solomon Appiah. Unlike former volunteers I’m not staying in the village of...
Another post in our movie library on our Youtube channel. The documentation was produced by our volunteer Manuel. What is it about: Finally the new solar-panels are installed on the rooftop of the Aim-Training Center and now Aim can work completly independent from national power supply....
A new post in our movie library on our youtube channel. Check it out. The film was created by our weltwärts volunteer Maxim together with the teenagers. What it is about: "Who do you want to become, Kofi?" is the final film of the Ayensudo film-workshop...
Yes it works! After a few days of fine tuning, we are now proud to announce that the solar system on the roof of our training centre in Ghana is producing electricity power. UMAWA has done a very good job. In the meantime we can...
As reported yesterday, our AIM. training centre in Komenda gets a solar system on the roof. After the delivery on Monday, the installation work of the solar panels on the roof started on Tuesday. The measurements are carried out by the Ghanaian company UMAWA. From...
More than 6 years have passed by from the very first idea to intensive planning and financing - since yesterday it is time. The solar system for the roof of AIM. Training Centre becomes reality. In the future, the PV system will make computer training...
The training center will be more secured. This is due to the financing of the perspective solar plant by Energiewerke Schönau (EWS). Because the solar system should be moreprotected by theft, the EWS finances us a fence. At this point, we would like to take...
After the rain season in the region around Komenda was particularly strong this year, we had to become active. The training centre was completely under water. Fortunately, we had already built the building higher, so the building itself was not affected. Thanks to the great...
11 Months have passed and there are only three weeks left of this one whole year here in Komenda. This fishing town at the Ghanaian Coast, that one year ago I only knew by name, I didn’t know the streets, I couldn’t speak the language...
The last term in Ghana’s school is about to end and so is the ICT workshop. Time for us to brag with our achievements. We had the ambition to present to the students the world of ICT besides Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp. Because anyone that does...
„We love it, but at the same time we feel cooooold and get sick!“, says Adjoa while we are sitting in the kitchen. She talks about the cool rainy weather of the last two days. Compared to the weather here in Ghana before it is rather cold,...
Last Saturday, 29th of April 2017 finally the launching of this years AIM Youth Magazine „The Youth Speak“ took place. And consequently the result of Mellis’ and my work since beginning of our volunteer service in Ghana. It was a long way to walk with...
Right now the workshop is on hold because of the holidays lasting till the 8th of May. Still, there was and is a lot going on concerning the workshop that I would like to share with you. In the last term, term 2, I did a...
For our workshop we had big plans this term. We wanted to organize an excursion to the parliament to Accra and moreover we had also made exact plans for the lessons with our students. Unfortunately, in the end, we had to realize that we could...
„The internet opens a lot of doors to those who are passionate. “– Michelle Phan “The internet is a big distraction.” – Ray Bradbury There are many feelings about the internet. Some might say it rises pressure on the individual to always be available, it consumes a...
And again it was time for travelling. But this time it was all about work. For my movie-project I visited the Volta-Region and it´s prestige object, the Akosombo dam. This Hydrological plant is in charge of one third of the ghanaian electricity system. Above that...
As the pre-christmas time was reserved for planning and performing of shooting dates for my Documentation about the energy system in Ghana and Aim´s Solar Panel Project, where I took interviews with different people beeing relevant for the Topic, the time from Christmas into the...
„In der Weihnachtsbäckerei, gibt’s so manche leckerein, ...