Yesterday, Maartje Bos finished second in her category ‘Good’ at the Viva 400 votings for the most successful young women of 2011. After winner Dina-Perla Marciano she got the most votes. During a great women-only-dinner in Amsterdam, the winners were announced. Among the winners were celebs as Carice van Houten!
We congratulate Maartje with this great achievement and thank all the people who supported her by bringing their votes!
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Phase 2 of our Beekeeping Project is completed. In this phase of the project, all the participants received their beehives and protective clothing. Furthermore they got all the basic trainings in beekeeping, and the Tahima center is now completed with honey- and wax production-equipment. Today Stichting Partnership Ghana sent their report of this phase to Impulsis.
rapport fase 2 beekeeping St Partnership Ghana
Maartje is selected by the viva under the categorie ‘goed’ (good). Viva found her due to the second price she won for the environment award of the Yves Rocher Fondation. Vote for her via viva.nl. You do need to register first.
Thank you very much, we appreciate it a lot!
CPYWD is very happy to present her first newsletter of 2011, with a new look and feel. CPYWD, founded in Gha- na in 2006, has the vision of “Safe, just and sustain- able communities on the full and healthy participation of youth and women taking their rightful positions in deci- sion making and dignity”. With this vision, we’ve been trying hard in our range of activities, going from After School programs for the youth, to Beekeeping programs for Women. We are at an exciting place in our project as we come close to finishing our Discovery Centre, and are preparing to receive more international volunteers. We thank all for your support throughout the years. Please enjoy reading our newsletter.
In Bimbilla (Ghana) 150 women are trained as beekeepers and an organic Honey is build. Honey is healthy and beekeeping is environment friendly. Bees are necessary and important for the whole ecological cycle. Do you know that all over the world bees are dying by crowds? Luckily in Africa not yet.
Besides all the benefits for nature the women are able to generate an extra income by themselves, which enables them to send their children to school and get health insurance.
This film is made by Janka Burtzlaff, CPYWD volunteer in 2010
Learning can be fun!
Community Partnership for Youth and Women Development (CPYWD) organizes After school Programs in Tamale (Northern-Ghana) for the youth. Local community workers stimulate the children to express them selve, show their creativity, be self-confidence and critical. The local volunteers work use the PAC man Approach, Positivm, Activity & Creativity. The children who attend the programs are a mix of children who go to school and who don’t go to school. It stimulates the children to go to school and in the aftertoon they learn to bring the theory into practice. A beautiful combination! Schools, teachers, chiefs, parents and the local government are involved.
Partners! Supporters! Everyone interested!
Since 2007 the work of CPYWD Ghana has been supported via Stichting Ghana Haarlem. In 2011 it was time for a new step, the establishment of our own foundation, Stichting Partnership Ghana! This is the way to professionalize our work and to strenghten our Partnerships. Our final aim is that within 5-10 years CPYWD is a sustainable organisation without depending on European funds. A lot of things have been achieved the past 3 years.
Time for a party, are you joining us???
Everyone involved is welcome to our Ghanaian party. Via 2 short films of the projects in Ghana we will present our work with beautiful images made by the volunteer Janka Burtzlaff. But off course this is not all, we will enjoy African Percussion, Ghanaian snacks and drinks! Enough opportunities to interact and enjoy.
In April/May our partner organisation Youth Service Initiative (YSI) went to Ghana for 3 weeks. They made a beautiful film. Enjoy watching it!
YSI in Ghana 2011. from YSI Europe on Vimeo.
On friday the 22th of April Youth Service Initiative organises a Ghana-benefit dinner in Utrecht @ Resto van Harte.
YSI is our very reliable and pleasant partner since 2007. YSI offers a volunteer year program for young people all of the world in order to learn to role an active and inspiring role in a community and to gain experience in this. They work together in a team and each year they go to Ghana to assist on our youth programs.
This April the 25th they already will leave to Ghana for almost 3 weeks. They will work on the finishing of the construction of the Discovery Centre and particilate in several social and cultural programs. Check YSI’s Website for more information and you can download the invitation as well (see below).
Don’t miss it, the program will be very interresting! To join the dinner you have to register yourself!
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HAARLEM – On this beautiful sunny day we officially established the Dutch foundation Partnership Ghana, chamber of commerce number 52199436. This will enable us to support the projects of Community Partnership Ghana and to strengthen our partnership with all the partners we work with.
As the European Representative of Community Partnership Ghana (CPYWD) Maartje Bos was a commitee member of Foundation Ghana Haarlem (2007-2010). We are now ready for the next step, to continue this work with our own partners, vision and identity.
Hereby we introduce you to our commitee signing the offical papers @ the notary:
 Maartje Bos Chairman |
 Ruben Koeckhoven Secretary & Treasurer |
 Jacqueline Schmidt |
Sanne Peters (volunteer coordinator) will also join as a commitee member and Theo Cappon, Aliya Shakirova and Jasper Seger (Dutch coordinator from micro credit project Tamale) will be work group members.
The 4th of June we will organize a kick-off to celebrate the establishment of our foundation with all partners, volunteers and everyone who supports us!
