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The current population of Ecuador is almost 13 million people, 53% of which are children and adolescents who all wish for one thing: to improve their living conditions. This desire is especially obvious when looking at the active role they play in society, which has a major impact on a range of things from sports to culture to politics. Considering that opportunities to participate are very limited for young people,

UNICEF and the Center for Development and Self-Management  (Centro de Desarrollo y Autogestión)  The UNICEF and dumps of Manabí province. Their goal is to help the children living on the waste dump to escape from this life by providing them the opportunity to receive schooling and professional training, so that they aren’t dependent on collecting and separating garbage.the Ecuadorian NGO Centro de Desarrollo y Autoge

PALESTINE / Ya’bad / November 2007 / Daily life of Hilda Abu Baker (14) in the Westbank. For GEOlino Hamburg 2008 http://www.geo.de/GEOlino/

ANNUAL PEACE RUN, Kabul 2007 by Kurt Hörbst/Alexandra Grill (Text) The “Annual Peace Run 2007” in Kabul was a big success: More than 28 girls and 2000 boys and men were running through the dusty streets of Afghanistans capital. Organized by the really busy Bayat-Foundation, the sportevent was definitly an effective demonstration for peace and unity.For european eyes some details of security-measures during the run ma

FROM KABUL TO MAZAR-I-SHARIF by Kurt Hörbst/Alexandra Grill “The 100-Bed Maternity Hospital of Saleha Bayat” was our final destination, when we made the trip from Kabul to Mazar. Passing the famous Salang-pass and driving through the beautiful landscape, we saw lots of special views of Afghanistan. People living in those valleys are isolated, most of the women never received medical attendance. Since one year the new

ORPHANAGES IN KABUL by Kurt Hörbst/Alexandra Grill (Text) Half of the Afghan population is less than 18 years of age. About two millions are orphans and many of them are suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Over 400 000 children are maimed because of land mines. Young children are one of the most vulnerable targets of drug-dealers, war lords and terrorist networks, who are always and still watching out for

A Story of Success behind Afghan Clouds of Dust by Kurt Hörbst/Alexandra Grill (Text) Economical skills and the strong desire to build up the home country is sourrounding the area around Eshan Bayat. Having studied in the US and living as an entrepreneur in New York he only could come back to Afghanistan after September 11, 2001 when the Taliban regime had collapsed. His idea to create a functional mobile phone netwo

SIR DORIS – A CAREER IN KABUL by Kurt Hörbst/Alexandra Grill (Text) When the austrian lady Doris L.started to work for an international fuel trading company (called Tryco) in Afghanistan, it was quite hard to be accepted. Once somebody wrote the word “Sir” in front of her sign, to make a deal acceptable. But as soon as the afghan partners got to know her better, the respect for her grew bigger and stronger. The helic

Datu Lito is the chief of the Matigsalug-tribe. For rituals and in special cases he is wearing his traditional clothes. He is 37 years old, studied in Manila and is still forcing the traditional pattern of life of the Matigsalug – although he is married with a philippine – she is  living with 4 children in Manila. The tribe is practicing old, traditional rituals and believes in ghosts of nature.Even they

Antoon Postma he collected loads of different things like books, traditional mangyan stuff, stones, letters, tools … photographs, negatives, … the 79 years old former missionary is living since 1958 at the philippines. most of the time he spent at mindoro with the “hanunoo-mangyan” tribe. at the end of the 1960th he changed from the city mansalay (south-east mindoro) to the little mangyan-vill