Stand Up & Take Action

Get Up, Stand Up

When world leaders gather at the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit from 20. until 22. September 2010, the voices of their citizens will follow them, telling them, loudly and clearly: “We will no longer stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and the broken promises to end it!”

We stand up against poverty!

Please join us!

Further information:

In English: http://standagainstpoverty.org/suap/

in German: http://stell-dich-gegen-armut.de/

Arrival & preparation seminar in Wiesbaden

The group from Bangladesh arrived safe and sound on 2. September 2010 in Germany!

On 3. September 2010 the preparation seminar for the exposure visit started at the youth hostel in Wiesbaden - including students from the German schools.

Following some impressions from the second day of the seminar (4. September 2010):

The participants at the seminar!

Outdoor session in downtown Wiesbaden.

Warming up for the next session...

The next session...

Preparation in Bangladesh

The participants of the student exposure visit to Germany participated in August in a preparation seminar in Dhaka.

The Seminar took three days. Togehter with two Volunteers of NETZ, Regina and Feli they  learned and discussed about Germany, German culture and  topics like the system of schools in Germany.

Six of our seven visitors during the preparation workshop

After the workshop with the Volunteers the students created a theatre performance with the support of some staffs of ASK. The perfomance is about eve teasing in Bangladesh. To get teased by boys is a big problem for girls in Bangladesh. That is what the students want to show with they performance.

Rehearsal for their performance about eve teasing

Student Exposure Visit: Background

From 2. until 20. September 2010 a group of 7 people from Bangladesh will visit Germany in order to work together with students from three different schools in a project on Global Learning. Therefore they will visit the cities of Tönisvorst, Bergisch-Gladbach and Wetzlar.

This visit is organised by the German non-governmental organisation (NGO) NETZ Bangladesh and partly funded through the ENSA Programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). 

Among the participants from Bangladesh are four college students, who work as voluntary theatre activists in a human rights awareness project of the renowned Bangladeshi Human Rights Organisation Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). Another student is visiting the college of the NGO Udayan Swabolombee Sangstha (USS). Both organisations are Partners of NETZ Bangladesh.

The students will accompanied by a staff member of ASK and a staff member of the NETZ Country Office in Dhaka.

This blog will depict the visit of the guests from Bangladesh: Their encounters with the students from Germany, their visits at schools and other institution and provide an overview on the result of the work of the students from Bangladesh and Germany.

We hope you will enjoy following this blog!