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Bengkulu Utara: Malaria Progamm

Today we went to North Bengkulu subdistrict of Bengkulu to monitor the American Red Cross Anti Malaria Programm. The ARC distributes Malaria nets and does training with local volunteers and PMI staff.

Each volunteer goes from house to house and visits about 60 homes in order to check on the status of mosquito nets and talks about preventive measures wit the people. Targeted people are pregnant woman, children and seniors.

PMI volunteers explain to local family how to prevent malaria
PMI volunteers explain to local family how to prevent malaria more pictures

The staff from the office in Bengkulu city checked on the progress, watched some of the local meetings.

The trip took us all day, because the road was not so great, but nevertheless very intresting.

Preparation for the National Disaster Drill

Preparation for the National Disaster Drill

On December 78th and 9th there will be the National Disaster Drill here in Indonsia. The Red Cross here in Bengkulu will have a variety of activities: a command post (Posco) exercise, an evacuation team, field kitchen and a Medical Action Team (MAT).

Errecting the Tent
Errecting the Tent

As far as planned up to now, I’ll help with the MAT, yesterday we had the first exercise for the Drill and tried to erect the big PMI tent, the colour is much nicer then those we have (they are all olive green). „Preparation for the National Disaster Drill“ weiterlesen

Yogya

In time for Halloween I thord I post a little about my Indonesien adventure so far.

We are currently in the lovely city of Yogyakarta in Central Java and buisly learn how to communicate with the people in their own tongue „Bahsa Indonesia“.

Kamus_Disney
Indonesian-English Dictionary with Disney Figures, very nice cost me 100.000 IDR at Gramedia

On normal weekdays I wake up around 6:00 in the morning courtesy of Mandala Fligh RI 343 Jakarta – Yogyakarta and the broad daylight streaming into my room here in homestay Heru. See more in the video I included. „Yogya“ weiterlesen

Remarks welcoming the Korean Students to Freiburg

Remarks welcoming the Korean Students to Freiburg

12.08.2009 9:30 Rathaus Aula

Welcome to green city, I have prepared some remarks and hope to tell you about our city a little

Scientific analysis has shown that ¾ of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the city of Freiburg are caused by the energy sector and approximately ¼ by the traffic.

In 1996 the city council of Freiburg passed a resolution to reduce the CO2 emissions by 25% of the 1992 level by the year 2010, obviously we have not reached that target, so we passed an even more ambitious plan: in 2007 the we defined a new very ambitious long-term reduction–goal for 2030 by 40 %. A recent evaluation for the year 2005 led to the result, that Freiburg reduced its CO2-emmissions by  7.3 % in all and by 13 % per capita.

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Young Municipal Leaders Resoultion for ICLEI Meeting

Now we have a text on the YML Resoultion for tommorrow.

Draft Resolution “Young Municipal Leaders”

We have come together here in Edmonton during the 2009 World Congress of ICLEI to explore the interest of Young Municipal Leaders and develop means to empower Young Leaders to make change in our cities that contributes to tangible improvements in global sustainability.
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Sebastian @ICLEI World Congress in Edmonton

Thanks to ICLEIS Press serivce you can get here a little overview what I’ll do in Canada from Thrusday. I’ll keep you updated with tweets and shurly will post some pictures as well.


Title: Stadt Freiburg contributes to local sustainability movement with ICLEI in Edmonton, Canada

From 14 to 18 June 2009, Sebastian Müller from Stadt Freiburg will join the triennial World Congress of ICLEI, the largest global association of local governments working on sustainability. The event is hosted by the City of Edmonton (Canada). 500 participants are expected to join the conversation on advancing sustainability in cities and towns. „Sebastian @ICLEI World Congress in Edmonton“ weiterlesen