Journeys
Under the umbrella of the Ecumenical
Forum Marzahn, the Indian Forum organizes regularly
students meeting journeys between German and Indian
students. For these, German students are being sent to
India as well as students from the Indian partner
schools being invited to Germany, whereby the latter is
usually more difficult, as the invited guests from India
can understandably only provide
a very small means of the significant costs of such a
journey.
That is why we need your help. Please make a
"Donation"
to the Indian Forum, with the additional detail "students
exchange" at the 'additional purpose'-field of the
remittance slip. Thank you very much.
In the following we will shortly present you the single
journeys, that have been made so far, in word and vision.
Further photos of the journeys, that are described on
this page, can be found under 'Fotos' in the
Internal area.
Visits to India
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2013 Shantiniketan
For 19 days, from 25th November until 13th December 2013, a
group of 12 students and teachers of the Tagore School
travelled to India, accompanied by our member Sebastian Keller,
to visit their partner school in Shantiniketan in the Indian
state of West Bengal. In the following, a short excerpt from
one of the participating Tagore students' report is
presented (English translation by Roman Bansen):
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Indische Schülerinnen versuchen sich an der deutschen
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[...] The Visva Bharati University and the Patha Bhavana
School are works created by Tagore himself and they both
operate according to Tagore's philosophy. So it is, for
example, completely normal to hold the lessons outdoors,
which I personally enjoyed a lot, found it very authentic,
and it gave us to a deeper understanding of Tagore's way of
life. Beside the
Patha Bhavana, we also got to know numerous villages, for
example the Santal villages.
But most of the time we were occupied with our projects and
the students in the school. Every morning we were looking
forward to go back to the school and see our friends again.
This way the day for the farewell came closer day by day.
After 10 wonderful, eventful and enjoyable days we had to
leave the school and Shantiniketan and go by train to
Kolkata. On the day of departure I realized how dear the
girls and boys had become to me and how much I would miss
all of them. [...]
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2010 Chaibasa
In October 2010 a group of 11 travellers went to Northern
India, some of them especially to visit their sponsored
children. Renate Kümmel has written a report about it, of
which excerpts are shown in the following (English
translation by Roman Bansen):
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Gemeinsam Gemüse schnippeln |
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[...] We are being welcomed warmly on the campus with
little flower bouquets. After some smaller snacks we stroll
through the town and get a few balls and games for our trip
with the children tomorrow. Our "half Indian" Basti has left
early on the next morning, to pick up the children from the
sponsorship programme in the vicinity of Chaibasa.
Everything has worked out well, the children are here. I
finally get to know my sponsored child Hemlata. A girl like
a light breeze, so fragile - but surely tough as well - with
a serious and sad look on her face. The children (altogether
38 of them) are being brought to the picnic area by jeep and
the required items by truck. We are the last ones to arrive,
people are already working diligently ... cleaning
vegetables, peeling potatoes etc. I join and help them,
others play football or badminton with the children, amongst
others.
The fireplaces are set up. We are astonished on how all of
this works with the most primitive means and how it all
boils down to a delicious meal in the end. We eat together
with the children and are amazed by the huge portions that
are eaten by all of them, no matter if girls or boys. Who
knows when will be the next time they can eat as much as
they want?! After the meal we distributed some sweets. The
children were standing there staring with open mouths and
were so happy about such small things like pencils, erasers
and candy.
The wrapping however was thrown to the ground, which we of
course could not indorse. So we motivated the children in a
playful way to pick up all the paper packaging laying
around. The children did actually really enjoy to put
everything they could find into our garbage bag. The day
went by extremely fast and eventually we started to clean
up. The remains of the food go to the numerous dogs having
showed up by now. Everything else is loaded onto the truck,
only the garbage bag does not fit inside and is thrown into
the bushes!!!
It has been a very nice, eventful day with lots of gleaming
children's eyes, even Hemlata's eyes were gleaming from time
to time! [...]
The full travel report (in German) with additional
photos can be downloaded here:
Reisebericht_Stipendienprogrammreise_2010.pdf
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2009 West Bengal and Jharkhand
From 21st Oct to 8th Nov 2009 a small delegation of students
and teachers from the Tagore school in
Berlin Marzahn and the first chairperson of the Indian
Forum, Heike Haupt, travelled to various locations in Jharkhand
and West Bengal. Their guides in India were Alexander
Nitschke, Sebastian Keller and Mukut Bodra. Here come a few
excerpts from a students report in the school newspaper of
the Tagore school, regarding the stay in Chaibasa (English
translation by Roman Bansen):
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Girls and boys at the painting competition |
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[...] On the next morning we were welcomed with an
official reception of almost 3000 students. It was an
amazing and touching moment, when so many faces smiled at us
and cheered when we introduced ourselves. We were even so
*famous*, that we had to give autographs into the exercise
books of the Indian students. On the same afternoon we went
on a bicycle tour with about 100 students from our partner
school to a lake called Lupu Gutu, the not even 5 km away.
[...] It was a very nice trip, as we were able to speak even
with the younger students in English and got to know a lot
of the landscape around Chaibasa.
Another pleasant experience was the possibility to visit
classes of the primary, middle and high school on the next
day. The youngsters in the primary school were very curious
and had lots of questions. They were interested in our lives
in Berlin, in our everyday school life and in our skin
colour, but also the teachers wanted to know how the lessons
are structured in our school and what we think about their
way of teaching. [...]
We organized a painting competition and a sports day for the
students of our partner school. Three students from each
class took part in the competitions. Former students of the
school supported us a lot in the preparation and
implementation of these events. [...] With watercolour, wax
crayons and coloured pencils the children started
enthusiastically into the painting competition. They needed
some guidance however, especially in dealing with the
watercolours, as the children don't have any arts or music
lessons as we were told. Nevertheless some excellent
pictures were created on the topics "friends and family",
"the life in my village" and "my dreams for the future".
[...]
And so a week in Chaibasa came to its end - much too fast we
had to say good bye to our new friends. We will miss the
evenings in which we often talked to them and laughed with
them until late at night. And of course we will miss the
children, with their smiles and laughs and liveliness. We
shall also never forget the meeting with our sponsored
children.
[↑ nach oben]2008 Jharkhand
In March 2008 some of the
sponsors from the sponsorship programme took the wedding of
our executive board member Alexander as a chance to visit
their sponsored children during a journey to Jharkhand.
Here some impressions from the travel report from Anke
Keller (translated into English by Roman Bansen):
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Anke
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On the way to Chaibasa there is wonderful natural
countryside to marvel about. The roads are partly in very
bad condition and we were shaken thoroughly until we reached
our campus in Chaibasa.
Clerks from the campus greet us heartily. We are served tea
and a small snack. The welcome ceremony was really moving
then. Many women and children came to greet us. Now we are
here in Chaibasa, the place of which we have already heard
so much. Never, in all my life, we had imagined to ever come
to this place. And just now it has happened, we already
think about the meeting with our sponsored children.
Everything here reminds us a bit of a summer camp from our
childhood. The huge premises, surrounded by little huts and
in the middle a large square on which the boys are playing
cricket right now. The campus is located at a little
distance from the road. Here even the typical India noise is
missing.
The sponsored children have just arrived and have gathered
on the compound. We went out to them and have greeted all of
them heartily, after the initial shyness was overcome. As it
is quite hot outside on the school compound, we go into the
building, where we have already prepared some delights for
the children. We start to introduce us. As we want to know
with whom we are dealing, the children did also introduce
themselves and talked about their favourite subjects in
school. They don't even touch the candies, that we have put
there specifically for them. The children are really very
reserved and shy. Basti then asked them to take something
from the plates. Only then they started eating. Afterwards
we had the possibility to talk to the children individually.
Our translator was with us after all.
In the end we used the time to take some pictures with the
children. We had never dreamed, that one day we would
embrace our sponsored children. Perfectly wonderful. Time
has been flying and now it is time for the children, to set
out for their long way home. We have to say good bye and can
hardly keep our eyes from filling with tears. A very
touching feeling.
One more thing seems worthy of mentioning to us: the often
by India travelers bemoaned persistent begging, we
encountered it only at the tourist attractions. In the small
villages no one was begging. We have seen a lot and even
more we have not seen. But we have experienced much from the
"normal" India: life in rural environments, small towns and
impressive landscapes. India is a fascinating country. It
was good to be here. And maybe it was not the last time, as
have not yet experienced all facets.
[↑ nach oben]2006 Chaibasa
In autumn 2006 there was a students journey to Chaibasa
again. We want to point out at this point, that the
journey was financially supported by ASA EPJA and the BMZ,
for what we, the Indian Forum "Mahatma Gandhi", want to say
thanks once again.
In the following a short firsthand report by Linda Hübner (translated
into English by Roman Bansen):
In autumn 2006 we, five students and two teachers from
the Mahatma Gandhi School, went on a big journey to India.
In almost three weeks we travelled to the cities of Delhi
and Varanasi and visited our partner school in Chaibasa.
Already at our arrival in the metropolis of Delhi we got a
feeling for what the Indian way of life is like. Everything
was new for us in hectic and noisy Delhi. Unknown food,
exciting rikshaw rides, sightseeing in Old Delhi and
non-stop hustle and bustle.
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The
German students are singing together at the
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During the following 30 hour train ride to Chaibasa we had
enough time to work through the first impressions. But when
we arrived in Chaibasa after this long journey, there was no
time to rest again. The church community was just
celebrating a festival, to which we were invited immediately.
In the following days we explored the city and visited the
different schools of the Lutheran Compound. Everywhere we
were welcomed very warmly and the students peppered us with
questions about Germany.
One highlight was our cycling tour to an Adivasi village, in
which we got insights into the culture of the native
inhabitants of India, that was totally unknown to us until
that day.
While our arts teacher Mrs Seifert organized a painting
workshop with the Indian children, we investigated and
worked on location on our projects ("Women in India", "Water
and Environment in India" and "Religions in India") within
the framework of the financial promotion programme.
Every day we were pampered with typical Indian meals by our
hosts and we spent the evenings rehearsing our performances
for the Indian German cultural programme, which was to
become the crowning finale of our visit.
The end of our journey to India was the stay in Varanasi. At
dawn the holy city at the banks of the Ganga river showed
itself from its brightest side, so that it was really hard
for all of us to go back home.
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2005 Chaibasa (autumn)
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Prayers are held before the lessons start |
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In autumn 2005, once again a group of students from the
Mahatma Gandhi School visited the partners in Chaibasa.
During this journey the preparations for the first year of
the sponsorship programme reached the final stage. Some
impressions of this journey will be described in the
following text from Heike Haupt (translated into English by
Roman Bansen):
After a short city tour in Delhi we took the train to
Ranchi, from where we went on via road to Chaibasa. There we
arrive in the middle of the night and first of all came to
realize, that we had to deal with a totally new quality of
darkness here. We were lucky if we could see our own hands.
Fortunately people with candles came immediately to help us
find our way.
On the next day the official welcome celebration of the
schools of the Lutheran Compound was held. With singing and
dancing we were led to the put up festival tent, where we
handed over the presents for the hosts after a short
introduction. Afterwards we got a first glimpse of the
Indian culture, as the students made our day with creative
performances. Suddenly we were asked to get active ourself.
After exchanging some glances, longing for help, and after
some whispered agreements the Indians finally got to hear
some German songs.
During our stay we were invited by all schools on the
compound and visited many church communities in Chaibasa and
the surrounding area. Furthermore we helped in the
cultivation of a field on the school or respectively church
compound, which were to be used for the practical biology
lessons. We also handed over painted T-shirts from our
German students and animated the Indian students to let
their creativity play on other Shirts that we had brought
with us, so that we could bring them home to those students
that were not able to come with us to India. With the help
of our Indian friends we explained the use of the
microscopes, which we had also brought over from Germany.
We did not only visit the schools and churches, but did also
explore the hilly landscape of Jharkhand, which is covered
with forests, as well as the lively markets of the towns and
cities. Finally we completed our visit with a German Indian
cultural programme, that we had initiated.
[↑ nach oben]2005 Chaibasa (spring)
In spring 2005 four members of the Indian Forum went to
India. During their visit to Chaibasa the met little Nitish
again. Unceremoniously Sebastian Keller decided to pay for
Nitish's school money, for his school uniform, his books
etc. So Nitish became the first child of the
sponsorship
sponsorship programme programme, that had been founded
with that.
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During the Holi festival, all participants put funny
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[↑ nach oben]2003 Chaibasa
In early November 2003, Mr. Buntrock, Mrs. Küstermann and
four former students visited Chaibsa again. Among them was,
once again, Alexander Nitschke, from whose travel reports
some shorter extracts follow (translated into English by
Roman Bansen):
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Outdoor lessons for the youngest |
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The whole school and all inhabitants of the church
compound were afoot to see us. As simple, usual people from
Germany we felt quite honoured and flattered by all this
furore. The best of it was the honest joy as well as the
curiosity, that could be seen in countless faces of the
children. As four of us had already visited Chaibasa in the
year before, there was also the meeting with the friends
from the previous year. We were especially impressed by the
enormous improvements, that some of them had made in their
English skills. The essential motivation for them was mainly
the personal contact, that had been made with the visitors
in the year before. Insofar the success of partnerships are
probably to be found especially in the small and often
personal things.
Again we visited the classes in the four different schools,
that are located on the church compound of Chaibasa. The
youngest seemed to be very interested in us white people and
asked many questions, e.g. what we eat in Germany and how we
celebrate christmas. Our accommodation was part of the old
missionaries house from the late nineteenth century. In this
"guest house" we were usually in private, but at all
mealtimes different women were cooking for us. [...]
Some trips we made from Chaibasa, visisted other schools,
other church communities and enjoyed the wonderful, somehow
romantic nature with its fields and hills during all the
tours. The quality of the streets is absolutely uncomparable
to the European standards. Every few meters there is pothole
beside pothole.
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New
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In Chaibasa itself we examined the work on the computers,
that were installed by our group here the year before.
Meanwhile many students use the computers for learning. This
means at lot of theory for them at first, but like
everywhere in the world it's the younger, who learn fast,
especially in terms of technology. Two of the eight
computers we brought to Khunti, a place about 50 kilometres
away from Chaibasa, so that interested students here could
learn how to work with computer technology. When we
inaugurated the small PC room, many small faces beamed all
over with curiosity. To ensure the work with the computers,
a young man named Pawan Toppno, an expert on this field,
cares for the whole project on location on behalf of us
since last year. The new school building is under
construction for some time now, but the progress is very
slow, as there is a lack of money, just as everywhere else.
That this construction is really necessary we already
realized last year, when we visited the overcrowded class
rooms in the old building, which is in danger of collapsing.
Unforgettable times we had with the students on the
compound, e.g. when we played soccer or cricket together on
the school yard or just horsed around, without understanding
just the slightest bit of the other's language.
[↑ nach oben]2003 Delhi
Some time before the arrival of the Chaibasa group, another
group from the Gandhi School in Berlin Marzahn, consisting
of five students and one teacher, visited the Springdales
School in Delhi. Alexander Nitschke and Sebastian Keller
accompanied and took care of them. Both were already in
India when the group arrived and did stay there afterwards,
just to take care of the next group, mentioned above.
[↑ nach oben]2002 Chaibasa
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Teacher Andreas at the blackboard |
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In autumn 2002 the first students journey to Chaibasa was
organized by the Ecumenical Forum Berlin Marzahn and was
financially supported by the Evangelical church development
service (EED) and by the "Nord-Süd-Brücken" foundation (North-South
bridges). The experiences collected during this joruney
finally lead to the foundation of the Indian Forum. A short
field report by Roman Bansen follows:
After a rather strenuous journey, we started our tour in
the former capital of the British crown colony of India, in
Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Instantly we got to know the
extreme discrepancies and contrasts of this city, that on
the hand produced all four Nobel prize winners of India and
still has some of the Victorian glamour of the British rule,
but on the other hand is overcrowded with waste, dirt and
pure poverty almost everywhere you look. For example we
watched a family with several children in the alley
bordering our hostel, vegetating beneath a few wooden boards
and having to live from leftover food and dirty water.
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Taking part in the rice harvest |
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After a few days we went on to Chaibasa, where several
hundred very enthusiastic and cheerful people welcomed us on
the following day. Apparently endless dancing and singing,
just out of pure delight about our coming, really plucked
our heartstrings.
After we had settled in in the guesthouse, the olded
building on the compound, built by the first German
missionaries in the mid 19th century, and after the general
interest in us had seized at least a bit, we started to put
our programme into practice, which included visits to
multiple congregations, which were partly pleasantly
isolated far in the mountains, from where we enjoyed
wonderful sunsets and sunrises.
Furthermore we had brought two computers with us and
purchased five more on a tour to Ranchi. They were installed
in a computer room, that had been especially equipped the
preceding days, and first introductions were given to the
computers.
Several times we visited the single classes and schools on
the compounds and spoke with the students. Helping with the
rice harvest in terms of having a look how it works, was
also part of the programme, as well as the participation in
the church services in the church that is located on the
School Compound.
After leaving Chaibasa and therefore also leaving our newly
obtained friends there, our journey went on to Khunti first
and from there on to Ranchi, where we spent a few more days
in the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC). Finally we
went on by plane to Delhi. After another day of sight seeing
there we went home to Germany.
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The
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[↑ nach oben]2002 Delhi
Parallel to the student and teacher group to Chaibasa in
2002, a mixed group went to Delhi. Three students, Jana
Sommerfeld, Christina Lüdtke and Sebastian Keller, as well
as two teachers , Edith Daling and Andrea Schubert,
participated in the journey. They wanted to spent three
weeks with the students and teachers of the Springdales
School, learn together and get to know the customs and
practices of the respective country. All members of the
group lived in guest families. This enabled them to have a
look into the daily life of the of the upper middle classes
in Delhi. In tours to Agra, Mussorie and Haridwar they got
to know people and sights outside of Delhi, too.
Motivated by their experiences, Jana Sommerfeld and
Sebastian Keller became two of the founding members of the
Indian Forum.
[↑ nach oben]2000 Delhi
Following an invitation of the Springdales School in New
Delhi, 5 teachers of the Gandhi School visited India from
the 23rd of October 2000 to the 4th of November 2000. In the
following a few (shortened) impressions by those teachers (translated
into English by Roman Bansen):
After a long time of preparations, lots of communication
problems and hesitating state education authorities we flew
in about 6 hours from Berlin to New Delhi. We, that are Mrs
Abert, Mrs Fritsche, Mrs Frotscher, Mrs Gebhardt and Mrs
Gottlieb, a really great team as we were to find out soon.
Every one of us has been accommodated with a teacher of the
Springdales School and their families. [...]
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Teachers of the Gandhi School with teachers
from the Springdales School in Delhi |
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We got to know our partner school during an overwhelming
welcome. At two locations 4500 students from 4 to 18 years
are teached by about 200 teachers. This school is not just
teaching knowledge, but also good manners and the like, in
accordance with the school's motto "The world is a family".
And this impression, to be part of the family, we had indeed.
[...]
Within the guest families we were cared for, got to eat and
drink all the time, were guided to special places in Delhi
and celebrated Diwali with them, the festival of ligts. All
were constantly caring for our well-being, so that almost
had no time four ourselves in the end. [...]
Much more could be written. Different from the tourist
journey, we really got to know people, who live in India:
teachers with their families and students. And so we
experienced a small part of the country very intense, with
the awareness, that this country is extremely diverse.
Thankful and with lots of impressions and ideas in our heads
we flew back. We wanted to tell many things and to invite
the Indian teachers to our school.
Visits to Germany
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Gargi Ghosh beim großen Abschluss-Schulfest. |
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In September 2011 a school delegaton from Shantiniketan,
West-Bengal, Indien visited the Tagore School in Berlin
Marzahn. Besides actively accompanying this partnership
journey, the Indian Forum had alvo invited an Indian primary
school teacher, Mrs Gargi Ghosh.
While the official
visitors from the Shantiniketan school, which had been
founded by Rabindranath Tagore himself, went on with their
own programme at the Tagore School in Marzahn,
Mrs Ghosh spent most of her time in primary schools in the
same district.
During one week each, she teached Indian dances, songs and
poems of Tagore to students of the
Peter Pan Primary School and the "Unter dem
Regenbogen" Primary School. Sebastian Keller accompanied and
assisted Mrs Ghosh during her entire stay.
Highlight of the visit was the final ceremony at the Tagore
School on 23rd September 2011, during which trees were
planted and the primary school students presented their
dances and songs.
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2008 Berlin
After a three year break, we finally
managed to get a group of Indian students, teachers and
priests to Berlin again in 2008. So there were six
Indian friends staying in Berlin Marzahn from the 29th
of May to the 21st of June 2008 as guests of the Tagore
School, the church district, the Ecumenical Forum and of
course the Indian Forum: three (former) students of the
Lutheran Compound Chaibasa, two priests and one teacher,
three women and three men.
During the week their accommodation was the 'Haus Pro
Social' at the Blumberger Damm in Northern Biesdorf. On
the weekends the guests stayed in different families.
Besides many days at the Tagore School, a bunch of trips
and tours was also on the plan of course. Amongst other
things, the sewage works in Wassmannsdorf has been
visited, the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, the
German parliament and the Chorin monastery. A two day
trip to the Spreewald (Spree forest), including visits
at the Sorbs and at an open pit mine for brown coal,
could also be realized. In addition the group got to
know Berlin from all of its good and bad sites.
But above all, there was enough time for interpersonal
contacts. Every minute of 'free time' apart from the
tight programme was used for meeting old and new friends
and on the weekends private trips were organized, for
example to the International Aviation and Space
Exhibition, to Martin Luther town Wittenberg or to do a
canoe tour.
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Merrily at a canoe tour on the Griebnitz lake |
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Chanting in the church service |
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2005 Berlin
In summer 2005, five youths and
teachers of the LHSC visited Berlin. Our Indian friends
were accommodated in guest families. They learned a lot
about culture, lifestyle and school in Germany. So they
enriched the lessons by discussions and with a
PowerPoint presentation on Mahatma Gandhi.
Together with students from the Gandhi School and
representatives of the Ecumencial Forum Berlin Marzahn,
they went on a trip to the German 'Bundestag' (the
parliament), where they spoke about the situation of the
Adivasi in India with Sebatian Edathy, the chairman of
the German Indian parliamentary group.
During an event in the Indian Embassy, they presented
the partnership relations of the Lutheran Schools to the
Mahatma Gandhi School, together with representatives of
the Indian Forum.
The visits to a composting plant and to social projects
made a special impression on them. Here in Germany they
decided to get active themselves and founded " Reyad Umbul".
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The
Indian visitors present a gift to
the principal of the Gandhi School |
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On a
visit at a composting plant |
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[↑ nach oben]2003 Berlin
On the fringes of the Ecumenical Church Congress 2003 in
Berlin, the teacher Kiran Horo and the representatvie of the
school committee of the Lutheran High School Chaibasa, the
Lutheran bishop Hansda, did also visit the Mahatma Gandhi
School in Berlin Marzahn. Students took care of the other
guests of this church congress too, the Anglican bishop
Terom and the Catholic archbishop cardinal Toppo.
[↑ nach oben]2001 Berlin (LHSC)
In June 2000, the principal of the Lutheran High
School Chaibasa, Mrs. Bharosi Toppo, and the teacher Mrs.
Sumanlata Kandulna, visited Berlin. The advanced course in
English took care of them in the Mahatma Gandhi School.
[↑ nach oben]2001 Berlin (Springdales)
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The
Indian teachers accompany a
class at their school outing |
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From the 28th of May 2001 until the 10th of June 2001, five
teachers of the Springdales School New Delhi had come to
Berlin as an "answer" to the visit of teachers from the
Gandhi School to India.
In detail these were Mrs Deepshikha Sehgal (teacher for geography), Mrs Shashi Nagpal (teacher
for Hindi), Mrs
Champa Banerjee (teacher for physics and chemistry), Ms Ruchi
Gambhir (teacher for Englisch) und Ms Jugnu Singh (teacher
for Englisch).
In a manifold programme they got to lean the city, the
people and of course the Mahatma Gandhi School.
[↑ nach oben]1998 – 2000 Berlin
From 1998 to 2000 the Lutheran pastor Narendra Gagrai and
his wife Kunul Gagrai from Chaibasa lived as guests of the
Ecumenical Forum Marzahn in Berlin Hellersdorf. In Berlin
Kaulsdorf their first son was born. Mr Gagrai was often in
the Gandhi School, learned to work with a personal computer
their with Gandhi students and spoke about his homeland.
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Gagrai's son Zephaniah |
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Together with his wife, he was able to greet the wife of the
Indian president Narayanan, who handed a bust of Mahatma
Gandhi over to the Gandhi school.
The Gagrais made contacts, that lead to a stable partnership between
the Mahatma Gandhi School in Marzahn and the Lutheran High School in
Chaibasa as well as between the Lutheran church districts
Lichtenberg-Oberspree in Berlin and Singhbhum in the Indian state
of Jharkhand.
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