Ecki – Partner across Borders

out of the box’26 – Arrival of the Kenyans

After a long journey, the 10 Kenyan students and their two teachers from St. Antony Dago Kokore Secondary School (Kisumu) arrived in Bremen at midday on Maundy Thursday. After being met at the airport, they took the tram to their partner school in Bremen, the GSM. The journey itself was an experience, and also the cold weather in Bremen. Refreshed after a light lunch, Chilloh led an icebreaker game. Afterwards, the hosts drove home with their Kenyan guests. The programme continues on Good Friday…

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preparatory seminar out of the box’26

On 13 and 14 March, preparatory seminars for the upcoming encounter in Germany took place in both Kisumu and Bremen. The Kenyan group was prepared by Peter Ndolo from MYFF, and the German group by Chilloh and Ecki (PüG). The focus was on team-building and cross-cultural education. A video conference between the groups was also arranged.

our kultuweit-volunteer 2025: Sharon Chelangat

Sharon am Schnittplatz der Makemedia Studios

Sharon arrived in Bremen from Kenya on 30 August 2025 and will stay until mid-November 2025. She works as a German teacher in Kenya. In Bremen, she is assisting with several workshops, projects and learning offices at the GSM. She has developed an exhibition concept for a democracy exhibition for the UNESCO ASPnet schools of Bremen and will supervise this exhibition while she is still in Bremen. Among other things, the exhibition will be on display at the Night of Youth in Bremen Town Hall.

Esther and Joy arrived

From 1.3.24 to 18.5.24 Esther and Joy from Kenya will be volunteering with us via kulturweit incoming. We are very much looking forward to working with them. Among other things, they will represent PüG at the international conference Level UP 2 of the LidiceHaus and work at the World Heritage Conference of the UNESCO ASPnet in Bremen. Most of the time, however, they will be observing at the GSM. Esther and Joy are German teachers in Kenya.

connect for change

Under the heading Passing on responsibility – Best Practice: NGO partnership “out of the box”, an article about the partnership between MYFF and PüG appeared in the handbook Shaping Global Education Partnerships and Projects for Change

Richard will be our first official volunteer

We have been working for some time to enable young people from our partner organisations in the Global South to undertake voluntary service with us. In AFS, we have found a fantastic organisation to support us in this endeavour.

From July 2018, Richard from our partner MYFF in Nairobi will be starting his Federal Voluntary Service with us. We are absolutely delighted that this has come to fruition. Take a look at his introduction video…