SAR exercise

SAR Excercise 1The last days we had Mountain Search and Rescue (SAR) exercise in a little village up the mountains from Curup. Its even colder there then „down“ in Curup and all the Bengkulu people constantly keeps complaining about how cold it was. And wore thick jumpers, while I thought its just like maybe a normal early spring day or autumn day. In the night I was glad to have borrowed a sleeping bag and a field-bed (indonesian: veldbett). „SAR exercise“ weiterlesen

From Batam via Pekanbaru and Bukittingi to Bengkulu

Hi 5 with PMI National Board Member Munas
Hi5 with PMI National Board Member Munas

Our trip back from the South-East-Asian Youth Red Cross meeting was a four day adventure in itself.

Landslide blocking our trip oh and Germany has won at soccer
Landslide blocking our trip oh and Germany has won at soccer

We went from Batam near Singapore with a Ferry to the ferry port for Pekanbaru, then took a bad road in an old bus to Pekanbaru itself, there we staid a night in the Ibis hotel, bought a laptop for a friend in Bengkulu, then continued our journey on to Bukittingi by „travel“ a Toyota Kijang we shared with 7 passengers.

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Chummy macht auf!

Mit großer Freude habe ich in der Online Ausgabe der Badischen Zeitung gelesen, dass Chummy seine Pforten für die Jugend geöffnet hat und demnächst auch offiziell eingeweiht wird. Damit geht für die Engagierten rund um den Betzenhausener Arzt und Bürgervereinsvorstand Thomas Hammerich ein langes und schwieriges Kapitel zu Ende.

In meiner Zeit im Gemeinderat wurden mindestens drei Lösungen diskutiert und verworfen: Untergeschoss der Anne-Frank-Schule (zu teuer + Anwohner), Brielmangelände (nicht in Betzenhausen-Bischoffslinde) und Sportfreunde Eintracht (Wiederstand der Vereinsmitglieder gegen Jugendzentrumsjugendliche) Es ist diesem unermüdlichen und manchmal auch für die Politiker nervigen Einsatz zu verdanken, das Chummy auch gegen Wiederstände durchgesetzt werden konnten. „Chummy macht auf!“ weiterlesen

Batam Youth Camp

Du bist Deutschland oder so...
Du bist Deutschland oder so...

Tomorrow we will start our overland trip back home to Bengkulu and for me its time to write a little about PMI Batam Youth Camp. For the first time its not the national headquarters of PMI but one of the regional Branches that has held this event. And for the first time its not only people from Indonesia but Red Cross from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and even we two Germans.Which felt quite weird, to represent this big Red Cross with only two people who had to be facilitator, staff, volunteer and head of delegation all the same time.

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PMI Batam Youth Camp

Today we are on the way to Batam a island south of Singapore that belongs to Indonesia’s Riau proince. PMI will have a youth meeting with youth from all over Indonesia and the neigboring countries Red Cross societies. The theme of the meeting will be: Diversity in culture, one in action

We will be joined by volutneers and youth from: the Cambodian Red Cross Society, Lao Red Cross, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, Myanmar Red Cross Society, The Philippine National Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross, Thai Red Cross Society, Timor Leste Red Cross Society. „PMI Batam Youth Camp“ weiterlesen

Infos about Jumbara asean

I got my hand to some more Information of the Jumbara asean, which is the South East Asian Youth Red Cross meeting, that we will be attending from today in Batam a island off Singapore in Indonesia.

See also my last blogpost. I’m a little embarrased, but we will come there virtually empty handed, since neither we nor the delegation has any material in form of pins, flyers or any other stuff we will be able to share there. I built this two posters from the stuff we got send from Germany as power points. But German Youth Red Cross has a good website with many Ideas: IdeenNetz that helped. „Infos about Jumbara asean“ weiterlesen