Good News from Mon, 15 June, 2009:

Giraffe’s footprint brings Namibia and Finland together

Marja-Leena Kultanen
A project called ‘Giraffe’s Footprint’ by the Finnish-Namibian Society aims at informing youth about environmental problems and consumer habits though the example of handicraft. The project brings out the global effects of environmental problems, which are issues for both Western and developing countries.

Finnish-Namibian Society has supported art and handicraft education in Namibian schools for several years already. Through cooperating with partner projects, creative education is directed to children under the threat of marginalization. In a workshop in Vantaa, near Helsinki, four Namibian artists taught Finnish children for instance how to turn plain wire into a beautiful dragonfly.

- We give workshops on the utilization of different local materials for handicrafts and illustrate how one can generate income through being creative, says the artist and a part-time teacher Samwel Kamati in an interview published online by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In addition to Finnish-Namibian Society dozens of other organizations carry out information campaigns in order to familiarize Finnish people to the everyday life and culture of the partner country. Finnish-Namibian Society is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland, which supports NGOs carrying out international development work with 84 million Euros in 2009.

For more information:

www.suominamibiaseura.fi

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DONAShort35 Tue 25 January 2011 at 11:54
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