Integration starts from two sides.
We will never be able to prevent refugees. As long as power, money and greed rule the world, there will be people who suffer. But these people can become friends. And there is nothing better (and easier) than getting to know new cultures, new food, or new directions in this way.
My goal is that when I go back to Germany, I could do my part to make the quality in the workshop at least a little bit better. In a Western world view! But lesson one: "This is Ghana."
The NGO "Soccer for Change" is founded, hence you made this year the best gift for me. For me, an incredibly beautiful, exciting and above all trend-setting year comes to an end. With your help, I have been able to give our project a real foundation by establishing a nonprofit organization. Thank you!
For 3-4 weeks, I keep thinking about how it will be after my return. Will I forget how it was here and what I experienced? How can I live in a good life so that I can give some of it to others who are not so well? How can I live consciously?
Since I’ve been here, I haven’t met another volunteer who could be used here as a specialist. You meet a lot of young adult volunteers, almost all of them from Germany. 99% of them have graduated from high school and work here as teachers or in other social education institutes. Does a high school diploma qualify someone to work with traumatised children and act as a teacher? I don’t think so.
The good thing about the orthopedic workshop is that we have base with tools and some machines. The knowledge of how a shoe is built or a rail is adapted is there. Now comes what is difficult to put into words without sounding haughty. Because what is most lacking in our workshop is quality, …
Since I am here, it is clear to me that it is my knowledge that I want to pass on. So that something can be developed based on this knowledge.
Everything is cooked over fire and prepared on the ground. And everything is under the open sky. There are no fitted kitchens.
Due to the road conditions and the driving style of some taxi drivers one comes to work quite easily too late. Thus being German, I always feel late. But in Ghana you are never too late. At the latest when I pass the "WHY-WORRY" sign at my fixed point
I can learn just as much as I pass on. Here in Ghana, all patients are children. Children who have leg dislocations. Usually instability in the knee. We straighten the legs with rails and shoes.
