Bartolome de las Casas and Hans Knoepfli
Monday, September 18, 2023
Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) worked in Central America and Hans Knoepfli (1927-2023) in the Cameroonian grasslands; Both were connected to the organization of the church, but both are committed to preserving the traditional structures. De las Casas worked against enslavement, Knoepfli against the selling off of traditional values. Both worked on location - Being recognized for their work was not their main concern!
In our present time of global-digital-unification, it is of utter important to preserve the traditional-analogue-system, - without taking into account the influence of mass tourism, job creations, pseudo-inter-relationships, - the pseudo-values of the current time!
Academic institutions and their allies cannot carry out this task, - their stubbornness hinders and prevents them!
For this purpose and for this reason, there is a need to make efforts and carry out in-depth research, ignoring the prevailing and adopted values in order to create awareness about traditional values!
Labels: Amjad Ali Thatta Ghulamka Dhriroka, Cultura e V Nauen, DGFK e V Berlin, Ignatius Nji Bamenda, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch IPC, Romillio Rodriguez Fajardo Chiquinquira
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:16 AM,
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Of the Power of the Small
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
No matter what is conceived or initiated, - more or less quickly the thought process moves to mass thinking and mass production; The motive in the background is to be able to participate in global events.
Even if such thought processes are understandable due to the global spree, still the preservation and support of small-scale and unspectacular projects are necessary.
It is not the globalization and digitization that represents the basis for the future, but the increasingly disappearing analog, the cultural asset that has emerged at some point - similar to the arctic seed vault in Spitzergen in the area of plants and horticulture.
It is urgently needed to support the delicate shoots of such projects is urgently needed, including the preservation of the environment.
The usual commercialization of such projects is counterproductive and destructive!
Labels: Alahkie, Bamenda RUC, CAT, Cultura e V Nauen, DGFK e V Berlin, Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:08 PM,
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News from a troubled region
Thursday, July 1, 2021
One of CAT's projects is the KidsClub, which has been regularly overseen for many years by R.Perner and L.Fluegge.
The KidsClub arose from the CAT initiative CAT Club, in which selected schools in the region received a set of alternative technology (SolarCooker, Wind-Mill, etc.) from CAT and were able to gain experience with it.
This initiative resulted in the KidsClub, which, under the umbrella of CAT, introduced children to the possibilities of alternative technology in a playful way.
Every year the foreign volunteers support the project for CAT-internal events, in which in the current situation, i.e in the backdrop of months of school strike, then school closure due to the pandemic, Manasse Norbert is now able to attend high school.
Enclosed is a recent photo from the first day of school in a long time.
Labels: CAT Bamenda, Cultura e V Nauen, DGFK e V Berlin, L Fluegge, M.Bartkiewitz Schmitt, Norbert Pintsch, R.Perner, Senta Siller
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:15 AM,
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