Updates

14.06.2010

Workshop for B&R Zimbabwe in Leipzig

Our next Build & Ride group is heading to Africa already in the beginning of August. This time we will be going to Zimbabwe. In cooperation with the Youth Welfare Office of the German city Leipzig, Vezuthando e.V. sends a youth group to Southern Africa. Eight young and motivated adults from Leipzig, aged 18 to 25, are joining the project in Zimbabwe.
For this reason a workshop was held in Leipzig from the 11th to the 12th of June. The purpose of this workshop was to provide the participants with a better understanding of the work of Vezuthando e.V., as well as to introduce issues related to development. Furthermore local conditions and traditions were discussed.
In addition to the group leader Laura Frost, chairman Holger Vogt, who will also accompany the group in Zimbabwe, attended the workshop to share his knowledge about the country with the new participants.
Vezuthando e.V. is very excited about the new cooperation, which in particular benefited from the hard work of Karin Hempel, head of the department for ‘International Exchange’ in Leipzig.
The Vezuthando- Team wishes Daniela, Vicky, Benny, Olli, Kathleen, Tom, Tina and Lisa a great time full of experiences in Zimbabwe.

08.03.2010

Vorbereitungsseminar in Bochum/Essen

Zwischen dem 05. und 07. Februar trafen sich die Projektverantwortlichen und die Teilnehmer des Build & Ride Projektes „Bienvenue au Togo 2010“ in Bochum zu einem Vorbereitungsseminar.

Am Freitag hatten die Teilnehmer Heike, Holger und Aline bei Projektleiterin Claudia in Bochum während einem gemütlichen afrikanischen Essen Gelegenheit sich zu beschnuppern und erste Gedanken auszutauschen. Der Samstag wurde im Unperfekthaus in Essen dazu genutzt, den Aufenthalt in Togo konkret vorzubereiten, das Projekt in einen größeren entwicklungspolitischen Rahmen zu stellen und die Vereinsarbeit von Vezuthando e.V. kennenzulernen. Am Vorbereitungsseminar beteiligt waren außer den Teilnehmern die deutsch-togolesische Projektleitung mit Claudia und Jules, sowie Oly als Togolese und Afrika-Kenner, sowie Andreas als Vertreter des Vereinsvorstandes.

Nach einer Vorstellung des Vereins und der Vereinsphilosophie wurden grundsätzliche Themen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit diskutiert. Anschließend wurden verschiedene Übungen zum Thema „Interkultureller Austausch“ durchgeführt und es wurden Einblicke in das tägliche Leben in Togo gegeben. Die konkrete Vorbereitung des Projektes, der Schulgartenbau und die Arbeit mit den togolesischen Kindern wurde am Sonntag besprochen.

Die Erwartungen der Teilnehmer und der Projektleitung an das Wochenende wurden weit übertroffen. Es hat sich eine sehr interessierte und tatenfreudige Gruppe zusammen gefunden, die voller Vorfreude auf die gemeinsame Zeit in Togo und auf eine langfristige interkulturelle Zusammenarbeit blickt.

Vezuthando e.V. wünscht allen Teilnehmern viele tolle Erfahrungen und Eindrücke in Togo, sowie eine unvergessliche Zeit.

10.02.2010

Worldcup-news - order now!

In the next weeks until the world cup starts our project Vezuthando e.V. will tell you every fortnight about everything concerning soccer, politics, development – in short, talk about everything happening in South Africa now.
To make this happen, we put up the „Vuvuzela World Cup News“next to our normal newsletter. These special news are part of our educational campaign 'Africa can do more!' and uses the new popularity South Africa's to talk subjectively about the country and the prejoy for the event of the year.
It is in your interest to order our newsletter and to watch with us throughout the last countdown until the world cup.
If you already receive our newsletter, you will automatically also get the „Vuvuzela Wolrd Cup-News“. If you haven't registered yet, then you can do that now under the rubric 'newsletter' or you just send us your name and your mail address to

06.02.2010

Vezuthando is CharityStar!!

We thank you all for our amazing 572 supporters who voted for our project in Togo so that we were able to receive the Euro 1000. Thanks to you Vezuthando e.V. is CharityStar! We are thrilled about such a community action!

Siyabonga!

29.01.2010

Please support us with 2 Minutes of your time

Vezuthando e.V. takes part at the Charitystar-Project (www.charitystar.com) with the opportunity to win 1.000 EUR for our exchange programme „Build & Ride“.
The only thing we need to win are enough votes. We would therefore like to encourage you to spare 2 minutes of your time, to vote for us. That's it!

Just follow the link CharityStar and vote for our project, number 130: „Afrika kann mehr!"

The registration is completely free of charge and you do not have to fear any following spam mails. Just register and confirm the email they will send you. After you just have to press the „Abstimmen“ Button.
The whole process just takes 2 minutes of your time. However, our project can benefit of it with 1.000 EUR, which we would have available for our project.

Es wäre super wenn du diese Nachricht auch an deine Freunde und Bekannte schicken würdest! Bitte Unterstütze uns!

Siyabonga - Vielen herzlichen Dank für deine Unterstützung!

30.12.2009

Board meeting

This year the annual board meeting was, according to the tradition, held in Lamspring between Christmas and New Years. According to the board, 2009 was an extremely successful year. All areas of operations recorded an increase and the aims expressed in 2008 were all achieved. The finished finacial year was critically analysed. Positive as well as negative results were discussed and taken into consideration for the targets of 2010. 2009 was considered to be the strongest operational year, which mainly has to do with the restructuring in 2008 as well as the intensive work in 2009. This positive trend will be elaborated and expanded in future. We would like to thank everybody for their work and their commitment and are looking forward to new projects, challenges and events in the 2010.

14.12.2009

Mayor of Deining presents 500 Euro

After last years beneficial concert 'Choirs for South Africa' at the Neumarkt Reitstadel Chairman Holger Vogt promised to come back soon again to the area to report how the raised money of 3,500 Euro was used. He fulfilled his promise on December 14th 2009. Mathias Meier who had help to organise the abovementioned concert, invited to an information event. Anyone who was interested as well as friends of Vezuthando followed this call and were educated by the chairman about the exact usage of the raised money. The mayor of the town of Deining was also present and presented a cheque over 500 Euro, about which Vezuthando e.V. was overjoyed. The people of the municipal council of Deningen had raised 300 Euro within their meetings which was liberally stocked up by the mayor Alois Scherer with a further 200 Euros.
Vezuthando e.V. wanted to say a big thank you to everyone involved for their engagement and to the municipal council and the mayor of the town Deining a very special thank you from the bottom of our hearts.