170 children join in ‘City within the City’ holiday activity

170 children join in ‘City within the City’ holiday activity
Boy with Down syndrome and other children embroider on a large scarf while members of the Leipzig delegation are watching.

In early February, 170 children met for a holiday activity in Addis Ababa. The holiday activity is called ‚City within the City‘. Children and adult helpers with and without disabilities took part in the activity.

They met in the park of two vocational schools. These schools are called Entoto Polytechnic College and Tegbaret College.

The holiday activity has been existing in Leipzig for a long time. The cultural centre called ‚Haus Steinstraße‘ has organized the activity many times. Can the activity in Addis Ababa be a success as well? Ulrike Bernard was happy at the end of the holiday activity. She is the manager of the ‚Haus Steinstraße‘ cultural centre. She said, „The holiday activity was also a success in Addis Ababa. Because the needs of people are the same everywhere.“

170 children took part in the event. Numerous adult helpers were also there. 120 children came to Entoto College. There were 50 children at Tegbared College. They worked at different stations: They weaved, embroidered, and worked with wood, paper, cardboard and plastic waste. Several schools want to carry out the activity themselves in the future. New contacts were made between the Ethiopian partners. The experts from Leipzig were also able to learn many new things.

Katja Roloff led their group. She works in the ‘Office for International Affairs’ in the city of Leipzig. The participants were:

Ms Ulrike Bernard, Managing Director/ ‚Haus Steinstraße‘ sociocultural centre

Mr Christian Helbig, Project Manager/ ‚Haus Steinstraße‘ sociocultural centre

Ms Angela Teubert, ‚Haus Steinstraße‘ sociocultural centre

Mr Frank Böhme, Head of Vocational Training for Persons with Disabilities/ Leipzig Berufsschulzentrum 12 (Vocational Training Centre), Leipzig

Ms Sarah Junge, Social Pedagogue/ Berufsschulzentrum 12 (Vocational Training Centre), Leipzig

Dr Jana Voigt, City of Leipzig/ Head of Education Department

Dr Erika Luck-Haller, graduate biologist and pedagogue

Mr Tino Meißner, Managing Director/ INSPIRATA – Zentrum für mathematisch-

naturwissenschaftliche Bildung e.V (Educatory Institute for Mathematics and Natural Sciences)

Mr Gunther Jähnig, Managing Director/ Behindertenverband Leipzig e.V. (Leipzig Disabled People’s Association)

Mr Thomas Graupner, Head / LaSuB (Saxon State Office for School and Education), Zwickau

Mr Sebastian Unger, University of Leipzig/ Botanical Garden

 

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