Visiting Programme II - 27th February - 10th March 2006
The second visiting programme will take place from 27th February to 10th March 2006. We will visit projects that aim at broadening their support by cooperating with different social and political groups on a local level. By doing so, they have been cooperating with such groups for a longer time - so what do these contacts look like? How do the projects manage to remain true to their fundamental political aims and not be instrumentalised and coopted by a neliberal policy?
Three experts from the south will again share their impressions and views on the projects and the problems here:
Boniface Mabanza from the Democratic Republic of Kongo is an expert for NGOs in Kinshasa and the Republic of Kongo as well as for other African countries. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis in Catholic Theology on globalisation.
Graciela Draguicevich is one of the founders of Mutual Sentimiento, an Argentinian organisation in Buenos Aires, originally founded to fight the privatisation of the healt sector, nowadays they are running a kinds of projects, two of them being an open and free university and an own health station as well as a one to one supermarket avoiding intermediary trade.
Rhoda Viajar has been active in the Freedom From Debt Coalition - THE anti-privatisation network on the Philippines, for several years. She is currently working for the Philippine Human Rights Information Center in Manila.
PROGRAMME
28.2. Visit to Park Fiction, Hamburg
Residents, artists, tradesmen - and women and social workers successfully fought for a park in St. Pauli, Hamburg, to be designed by themselves
"Park Fiction - Wunschproduktion in einer globalisierten Stadt"
Comment by Boniface Mabanza (German)
"Wünsche von unten und die Frage nach der Zukunft"
Comment by Katrin Steiner (German)
Park Fiction (Hamburg) - Comentario
Comment by Graciela Draguicevich (German, Spanish)
2.3. Visit to Wuppertal
Tour through the town's social and political situation: Café Berlin, Brockenhaus, Wuppertaler Tafel and the Autonomous Centre. The focus is on the problem of poverty and 1-Euro-Jobs where the autonomous currently intervenes while stressing their own inependence.
"Zweiter Arbeitsmarkt, Ein- Euro- Jobs, Solidarität und Vernetzung - Besuch in Wuppertal"
Report by Ludger Weckel (German)
"Mehr als Caritas?"
Comment by Boniface Mabanza (German)
Visit to Wuppertal - Comment
by Graciela Draguicevich (German, Spanish)
6.3. Visit to the Planerladen Dortmund
The Planerladen (Planning Shop) Dortmund was founded in the northern part of Dortmund in 1982 and works for improving the housing and living conditions as well as a developement of the quarter and the area in direct contact and cooperation with the inhabitans.
"Von Kinshasa nach Dortmund - Vergleichbare Entwicklungen von Initiativen und die Konsequenzen"
Comment by Boniface Mabanza (German)
Visit to the Planerladen Dortmund - Comment
by Rhoda Viajar (English)
Planerladen Dortmund - Comentario
Comment by Graciela Draguicevich (Spanish, German)
8.3. Visit to the Medical Aid for Refugees in Berlin
The Medical Aid for Refugees in Berlin arranges appointments for the qualified treatment of refugees and illegalised people who have, because of their residential status, insufficient or no access to medical care.
