This year, we successfully integrated Stephen, a german 23-year-old anthropology student into the project in Germany. He visited the project in Ghana, stayed there for 6 week internship and was able to have insights into the work of the WHVEP. Before he visited the project he already stayed in Ghana for one year. From now […]
Our co-worker Martha Timiye passed away on 23.10.2015 in the Atebubu District Hospital, struck by a sudden illness. Martha suffered stigma in her home-town Saboba after a witchcraft-accusation. When we met and interviewed her in Yendi, she happily agreed to move to Atebubu to work as an assitant teacher for the children in Duabone. She […]
Al-Jazeera published a documentary and a report about the work of NGO’s in India against witch-hunts. In general, the presecution and the beliefs are similar to the African witch-hunts. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2013/01/2013121101834161718.html www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/06/magazine-meet-indian-women-hunted-witches-150603092941061.html
This full-length documentary contains historical pictures of a scholar of Evans-Pritchard.
From 1.1.2015 we are granted the right to hand out contribution receipts in Germany. Our „common public interest“ is both humanitarian and development aid. We thank Tingting Zhao and Tanja Walter by Freshfields/Bruckhaus/Dehringer and Kathrin Hichert, who helped us tremendously forward with the application!