tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400929280802594152024-02-20T02:10:02.558-08:00toystourMüllforschungsreise durch AfrikaSchmid Stefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10817984864372946872noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-76677321530689142132010-02-12T03:56:00.000-08:002010-02-28T14:57:09.279-08:004. 2. Going back<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbv2PktkKETTr45ag3hFPCSJ8DF4WSJuyf110KBpoEWStLoRQcW_YtcU62OO6sPYiyVDc9prrocBAI4_rLfkCXE89j-MrwEuDReg7A5-XnvhEzZbLUTMdpCko7QJLmTQeocRiyh1r0MA/s1600-h/0_strasse03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbv2PktkKETTr45ag3hFPCSJ8DF4WSJuyf110KBpoEWStLoRQcW_YtcU62OO6sPYiyVDc9prrocBAI4_rLfkCXE89j-MrwEuDReg7A5-XnvhEzZbLUTMdpCko7QJLmTQeocRiyh1r0MA/s400/0_strasse03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437420882839951810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtRCvwyWuqAEybZvvY9jsK6h4K47KY8H2f5h6fxBcUZVcLL2rrN_kTUh16au-vu9mDZRbNMpYGoEvngib9o3vAc93eJz0P1A5wN0NLjBnS3j5IG4InGzaS4k05EENak7KHU83I1hvy9o/s1600-h/0_strasse01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtRCvwyWuqAEybZvvY9jsK6h4K47KY8H2f5h6fxBcUZVcLL2rrN_kTUh16au-vu9mDZRbNMpYGoEvngib9o3vAc93eJz0P1A5wN0NLjBnS3j5IG4InGzaS4k05EENak7KHU83I1hvy9o/s400/0_strasse01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437420875206288274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R28sAarDGO5oNf-if801f_LgafNAp6bhV_s0LcsFezChXI_Dl8mMKHN6OXu5lHxeJLrFhe1Y6DYKsjYLxiUBbe6Ldo4bcOjvY7w38Ssfp5cpj-N_xH_4a_gka7XzGHMSCA3AW6iRl4U/s1600-h/0_urinating.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R28sAarDGO5oNf-if801f_LgafNAp6bhV_s0LcsFezChXI_Dl8mMKHN6OXu5lHxeJLrFhe1Y6DYKsjYLxiUBbe6Ldo4bcOjvY7w38Ssfp5cpj-N_xH_4a_gka7XzGHMSCA3AW6iRl4U/s400/0_urinating.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437420876765351090" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:arial, serif;">With our last Nairas we managed to get to the airport, where we spent our last Euros to pay for excess luggage caused by the heavy video equipment. We wore our recycled waste caps from Accra, and everybody was smiling. The lady at the customs wanted my cap, and I promised her: “Next time!”. She was satisfied, and I could pass.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">At 10:30 a.m. our plane left Lagos, bringing us back to the European cold.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We were driving all the way from Austria, Italy, Morocco, Mauretania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Nigeria to explore different cultures and socio-economic realities via the Trash of Your Society (T.O.Y.S.), bringing our own trash from Austria in exchange. We explored the different definitions and values of what is called trash in our own country. We found out, that certain items thrown away in Austria are real treasures in the deserts of Mali, where people were fighting over our PET-bottles, which are basis of transaction for many self-employed entrepreneurs all along our route.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We found metal-recycling cooperatives, local and international NGOs, scavengers melting lead and copper out of otherwise useless electronic equipment from Europe and the USA, or restoring und re-selling things they find in the waste. We found artists, who transform waste into sculptures, installation and designer fashion.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It started to hurt throwing away things we knew by now that they are precious for our entrepreneurs, like plastic- or glass bottles, metal cans, old clothes… It was shocking to see, how greedy children grabbed for a mango peel recklessly thrown away, or a crumble of sugar; to see people eating from the dumpsite, together with cows, goats and sheep. And of course we started to value water, which is not available in sufficient quality and quantity for so many people along our way.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">At the end we learned, that real progress is possible, when the government is interested in making things better for their people. In 2005, I experienced most districts of Lagos as a huge dumpsite, now you see the LAWMA-staff in their orange overalls cleaning up the streets all over the city.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Most of all, we found wonderful trash dividends for our lucky shareholders.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">It is still possible to buy shares, email to </span></span></span></b><a href="mailto:toys@mur.at"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">toys@mur.at</span></span></span></b></a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;"><a href="mailto:toys@mur.at"></a>1 share of Eur 35,- brings you a guaranteed unit of trash from Africa, have a look at </span></span></span></b><a href="http://toysontour.mur.at/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">http://toysontour.mur.at</span></span></span></b></a></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6600;">A work by trash-artist ASTON from Cotonou will be raffled off between all our shareholders at the AGM (Annual General Meeting) of our up-and-coming company.</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9900;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></span></span></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#FF6600;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>We thank all our partners, sponsors, shareholders, supporters, interviewpartners and collegues:</b> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">O.N.G. Auve-garde des plages de la baie du levrier, O.N.G.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> Arbre, O.N.G. Zazou, Martial Pouret and Sophie (Mauretania), Momo le Magnifique<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-collapse: collapse; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cooperative des Forgerons et Ferblantiers Jama Jigi Marche Medine,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mamadou (Mali), Oxfam Quebec, Jaqueline Djidonou, ASTON (Benin), Mike Anane, John Owoo, Tei Mensah Huagie - Not a Waste Recycling Studio (Ghana), LAWMA, Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Wendelin Schmidt (D) and many others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Austria: </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Max and Markus Gansberger, Klaus Meßner, Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Vice-Mayor Lisa Rücker; Markus Wilfling, Michael Maier, The Syndicate, Südwind, Pöttinger Entsorgungstechnik, WKO Sekundärrohstoffhandel Steiermark, Die Entstopfer, Grüne Akademie, Wolfgang Croce/Croce & Wir; Land Steiermark, bm:ukk, Cinestyria Filmkunst</span></span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </b></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-USfont-family:BookAntiqua;font-size:16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-USfont-family:BookAntiqua;font-size:16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language: EN-USfont-family:BookAntiqua;font-size:16.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-40923003323250290222010-02-11T02:51:00.001-08:002010-03-30T16:01:09.583-07:003. 2. LAWMA - Ojota dumpsite, Lagos, Nigeria<div style="text-align: center;"><span><span></span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Eqm4eYIX_SgfJlFXElnLwhorJu0W2Xi2wWqM3ZQj0HpU1d5bgOSg381ULyB-kRj312_sh1I6B5x1YU-E0yQbFzRfl9f6YoDQ7KC_O4TClMHKrRs5NJuUTPnHEOexxQ4pmoRJ7qp79Yk/s1600-h/00_lawmaLKW3a.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkrRkpAn0cGhzplQVGnyhH9t-vUp-imTTDNlYXD0JT21WIb5G7iwE7le9Zpflg_Nh109FTkU-rwVTKLndt_T-jzrIc7tEUAKgy3vPsHx2APiI3NFZ9v-anSHMDwXYM0ybDWYnGkNW-Oc/s1600-h/00_landfill01a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkrRkpAn0cGhzplQVGnyhH9t-vUp-imTTDNlYXD0JT21WIb5G7iwE7le9Zpflg_Nh109FTkU-rwVTKLndt_T-jzrIc7tEUAKgy3vPsHx2APiI3NFZ9v-anSHMDwXYM0ybDWYnGkNW-Oc/s400/00_landfill01a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437298309409854578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikfVaTcgVkwH_7rx2ZywL9mJhjR6JfLW819yO5dWhYai10lRscsOfFcu5jKGrTsjE_ioke58gtx2JL_N7-So9U9a2XQsn4W426Tzb424M0MAvjIRD81OZugmep0PwhyphenhypheneAmZXmvRnRjCJk/s1600-h/00_landfill04.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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Managing director Ole </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Oresanya </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">welcomed us in his office.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">What happened to Lagos within the last years? Mr. Oresanya confirmed, that Lagos had a huge waste-problem several years ago. The city now has about 18 million inhabitants, which means: when everybody drops a piece of paper a day, it makes 18 million pieces of waste! Since the democratisation of Nigeria in 1999, the government decided to make a plan to keep Lagos clean, as lots of waste means more frustration, more aggression, and more crime.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Together with LAWMA, the government developed a concept for efficient waste management, and since a few years, it really works.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Lagos generates about 9,000 metric tons of wastes daily</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> (0.5 kg/person/day),</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> 80 percent of this waste can be recycled. Under the city’s recycling initiative called ‘zero waste programme’, organic waste, which makes up 60 percent of the city’s waste is being recycled into compost. This is used for a green programme aimed at beautifying the city with trees and flowers. Additionally, Oresanya is looking at waste as a tool of job creation and poverty reduction.</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">LAWMA didn´t have half of the lorries they needed, so they included private companies to bring the waste to the dumpsites. In the meantime, they have almost half the lorries they need - around 500.</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Joachim will write more about LAWMA.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We went to their biggest landfill in Ojota, Lagos to interview the scavengers there, together with Nigerian photographer Akintunde Akinleye.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After arriving, the geologist of LAWMA was about to go to a meeting. Quickly she explained, that the smoke coming out of parts of the dumpsite due to the high pressure of waste will be used for methan gas production soon.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">There are about 2000 scavengers collecting useful waste on Ojota dumpsite every day. Some of them live there, some just go there to work. Many of them come from other Nigerian states. They are all independent contractors, working under highly dangerous conditions: caterpillars and lorries are rolling between people who try to grab the most precious things before the others get them.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The scavengers are mostly specialised: some on collecting cloth, plastic, metal or paper, some collect suitcases and bags, repair them and sell them on the nearby second-hand market. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">E-waste is not allowed on site, but some does appear from the general waste collected all over Lagos.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">People are cooking and eating between the waste, white birds join them. Patricia, one of the scavengers, offered to cook pasta for us. Some people did not want us to take photos of them, they were afraid, that their friends and family might find out, where they work. Some were really proud of their work and appreciated us being with them in the waste and bad smells. When I started to collect dividends for our lucky shareholders, they started to respect us being one of them – although a bit stupid, because we did not collect the “valuable” waste.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-21872436786203525722010-02-10T12:44:00.000-08:002010-02-10T13:22:54.616-08:002. 2. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Qu_xhm1nsupL2nJVDJlB7945ns8qBLlbqURBn9PYHKCWk5C8ZtdvPXnG9ExbXaKO4e0jZs6Z6_uFNNGh2ST0or6MJ6GGAsozBTpOhoNwj6cjJXTvTRavSMPLLK-Zsqx2mAyzdU8wtgs/s400/bruecke_lawma.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436719588318783154" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The meeting with LAWMA director was postponed to Wednesday, so we decided to visit Heinrich Böll Foundation and Goethe Institute in search of possible partners, who could help us with shipping our dividends, and maybe help us to bring the exhibition to Lagos.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">With Monika Umunna of Heinrich Boell Foundation we discussed CO2 emissions in Africa: We have seen so much fire and smoke from Benin to Togo, Ghana and Nigeria, but there is no measuring, no statistics, no awareness. Then Monika introduced us to the staff of Goethe Institute, which is located in the offices of Boell Foundation until they can move to their new building in March.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After this, we decided to visit CCA Lagos - Center of Contemporary Art, run by Bisi Silva. We could not afford expensive taxies, so we went to take a “Danfor” – small, yellow VW-busses, the public transport of Lagos. They take 8 passengers.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After half an hour of waiting with locals, most of them disappeared and advised us to go a few stops back, because all Danfors coming to this stop were packed with people already and did not take more. We went to the big street to stop a motorbike taxi – we had good experiences with this way of transport from Cotonou. No, they are not allowed to drive out of their own district. They would do it anyway, but it would cost around Eur 15,- for both of us, thank you. For Eur 1,- they would bring us to a better bus stop. On the way, they asked every Danfor-driver if he would go our direction, and soon we were on our way.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Looking for CCA, we had to ask for directions several times, which was fun, because people were really helpful and nice. The house welcomed us with a bicycle made of used metal cans on the terrace. Bisi showed us her library with a comprehensive collection of books and magazines on African art, women´s art, feminism, as well as catalogues of notable international art events. She just had an international exhibition on “Old News”, in collaboration with a Danish gallery. </span></span><a href="http://www.oldnewsnews.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.oldnewsnews.org/</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How about the reaction of the Lagos art audience? Well – collectors are irritated, they don´t see artworks they can buy…</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After this inspiring visit we took a walk in the quarter, collected some dividends, and then took a Danfor back to our hotel – in the go-slow time between 6 - 8 p.m., and it took us precisely from 6 – 8 p.m to get there.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Later in the night, we visited the Fela Kuti Shrine.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Resumee of our day out: The waste on Lagos streets is disappointing. My inspiration to start the project was a visit in Lagos in 2005, where I was impressed by the huge amounts of trash on all streets. This was the El Dorado of waste, here I wanted to return and explore. And now: almost nothing, except the LAWMA-women in orange overalls, brushing and collecting waste everywhere we were going.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tomorrow we finally would meet the LAWMA-officials, find out what happend, and then visit their huge landfill.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-60633497300029061132010-02-06T12:19:00.000-08:002010-02-06T12:30:17.870-08:001. 2. The long ride to Lagos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_bRly-Te6k64-jt3Qn4HG6Z3APJZaGBUj_iXrQFqVVrhyevlfjXDi9Wd7k-OCE6VhnoCznbH79ruGxOaYGfcemKuXkixilsXDQ1LsmkhVBVMPXGGnr4JusJko3pswJQ8J7NtdJ15HZY/s1600-h/hotel01"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_bRly-Te6k64-jt3Qn4HG6Z3APJZaGBUj_iXrQFqVVrhyevlfjXDi9Wd7k-OCE6VhnoCznbH79ruGxOaYGfcemKuXkixilsXDQ1LsmkhVBVMPXGGnr4JusJko3pswJQ8J7NtdJ15HZY/s400/hotel01" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435230467224718834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60RTvcZw2IqHB3BT9C9gTDQz1ydJahFx8Bgbwk_by-TwOM5eHY97rZZu0sTTN7KlUVgCaoLN8r72bRz7D8AHu7Oh3gw4JDAm2K66yyR5uK0QUKzpoAANGHQGofJTKprIsDaTxvjyrg_g/s1600-h/hotel02"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60RTvcZw2IqHB3BT9C9gTDQz1ydJahFx8Bgbwk_by-TwOM5eHY97rZZu0sTTN7KlUVgCaoLN8r72bRz7D8AHu7Oh3gw4JDAm2K66yyR5uK0QUKzpoAANGHQGofJTKprIsDaTxvjyrg_g/s400/hotel02" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435229871072304770" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The distance between Cotonou and Lagos is about 80 km, so we were convinced – considering all expected troubles at the border -, that we would arrive in Lagos around 10 a.m. when starting in Cotonou at 6 o´clock in the morning.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We expected some small troubles: Manuel had lost his vaccination card, and the stories we heard from Maryam and Joachim were not really promising.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We arrived the Nigerian border quickly. We had to get out of the taxi, I went barefoot because of the huge blisters on my feet. People offered me their sandals, but no way. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">A long row of tables, we had to go from one to the other for control: passport, visa, vaccination card, drugs, customs… On every table somebody new who asked, why we did not get our visa from Vienna, but from Cotonou. Why we want to go to Nigeria. Obviously, they were looking for something to make us pay, we observed a constant stream of money, going into the officer´s pockets.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Manuel was stopped at the first counter because of his missing vaccination card, and after a not too small payment he was allowed to pass. A few counters later he had to pay again.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I mentioned Susanne Wenger and could pass all controls quickly. On the last counter they asked: “What do you bring to our people?” – “Sorry, we have nothing left.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We continued in a Nigerian taxi. The driver charged a huge amount of money, because we are white, and this means: more police controls than usual, more troubles. Our Benin driver had charged money from him to hand us over, and there was some fight we did not understand between people we had never seen before. They passed money around, and finally we could go: Welcome to Naira land.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After some hundred meters we had to stop for the next control. The car before us did not stop immediately, the policeman was beating on it with a golf club. Everybody had weapons – heavy guns, small guns, knifes, golf clubs, metal claws… We felt a bit uncomfortable. There were stops every 5 minutes, Manuel had to pay for his missing vaccination card again, and some stops later they wanted to have money for a mask Stefan bought in Mali. It was a souvenir-shop Dogon mask, obviously new, but they wanted to charge money for an antique. Endless discussions, they wanted Eur 30,-, this was more than the money he paid for the mask. Stefan could not pay, they wanted to keep the mask, not even Susanne Wenger could help… Finally we said, we would leave it with them, but we want official papers, so we could claim it back. We could keep it for 1000 Naira, which is around Eur 5,-.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">During all this horror drive I observed mostly women in orange overall, cleaning the streets. They had the logo of LAWMA on their clothes – Lagos Waste Management Association. Joachim and Maryam had been there already, the director expected us to come with the video camera. I was too shocked with all this police controls to take any pictures of the waste workers. There was police everywhere, and cameras definitely would give them another reason to make us pay.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We finally arrived in our hotel at 1 p.m. – exhausted and frustrated. We did not feel like going anywhere, the country seemed to be hostile. The taxi driver was complaining all the way about mismanagement and too much police, traffic jams and controls everywhere. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We had the first hotel room with air condition, so we switched it on and went to bed. The hotel had high walls, barb wire and a strong gate, protected by a guard day and night. We felt secure.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After a short nap, I wanted to contact my friends in Lagos and check emails, but there was no internet and no phone to the outside world. After checking the hotel nextdoors, we found out that it had internet, but was much more expensive, so I looked for an internet café nearby.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">People on the street were helpful and friendly, quiet atmosphere. The internet café was close, the hotel manager gave us his own sim card for our cell phone, and we could start to organize our stay. We called Mr. Bode Fanima of LAWMA, and he visited us at 10 pm for a drink and talk. He promised to arrange a meeting with the executive director, and a visit on their biggest waste disposal site: the waste dump of a city with 18 million people – we were excited!</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-33007806947152166982010-02-06T11:53:00.000-08:002010-02-06T12:19:22.295-08:0031. 1. Cleaning up our Steyr and burning<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvB029d_8nrp1ncUjsmsKnCBzKIittpWrRksv3IHPSELWGQNeIMfrZ76Ofp4S3ATCOHHH9g2Qu2-fkk7xMCZapCU-fcwpiWakGRqXfVwFfu2P8spqJ-t6JGI5npfG-GVbZdU7h0QKh-o/s1600-h/00_strand01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvB029d_8nrp1ncUjsmsKnCBzKIittpWrRksv3IHPSELWGQNeIMfrZ76Ofp4S3ATCOHHH9g2Qu2-fkk7xMCZapCU-fcwpiWakGRqXfVwFfu2P8spqJ-t6JGI5npfG-GVbZdU7h0QKh-o/s400/00_strand01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435227644498626370" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvb0wTHaf8Ak0sFYBF0Y9dH9t9ctf-FnrYvHZruL_iKZP4nkrz8-FDsihhXoLDe6rWRjCQLOLwNX1kAHRLODaxIrZARS6dRmWPYG_Suf-PeO00tFuCjP6YQcWOCzh6mdDfLYOBi2TX2C8/s1600-h/00_strand02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvb0wTHaf8Ak0sFYBF0Y9dH9t9ctf-FnrYvHZruL_iKZP4nkrz8-FDsihhXoLDe6rWRjCQLOLwNX1kAHRLODaxIrZARS6dRmWPYG_Suf-PeO00tFuCjP6YQcWOCzh6mdDfLYOBi2TX2C8/s400/00_strand02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435227635497936978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2MJF-swZ-29JrbTuIjOpMYauLcmf96deZsFPffK-ONLku_BQym8q0uVL90nihnOvnefbxPRUn6gP2KofAJsnSSlHagxylBQJrxwNPmRNI_v1NrHcOTFo53mn3Fo8otlsPzyYgC47tt0/s1600-h/beach01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2MJF-swZ-29JrbTuIjOpMYauLcmf96deZsFPffK-ONLku_BQym8q0uVL90nihnOvnefbxPRUn6gP2KofAJsnSSlHagxylBQJrxwNPmRNI_v1NrHcOTFo53mn3Fo8otlsPzyYgC47tt0/s400/beach01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435226816431836770" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"></span></span></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Stefan started to pack his own stuff early in the morning, then we put all dividends into recycled metal cases, which will be sent to Austria as soon as we have raised enough money for shipping.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Then we said good bye to our home of the last months. The truck with its rich load of dividens can stay at the German Embassy in Cotonou for the next few months.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Instead of leaving for Nigeria as planned, we felt weary and tired and decided to leave early next morning. We were packing at about 40 degrees Celsius heat, so there was not much energy left.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Nevertheless, there were 2 big bags of our own waste left from the journey, and all the Austrian waste we brought and nobody wanted. It was not too bad for 3 months of journey, but considering the small dustbins of Manuels girlfriend´s house where we stayed for our last days, it was quite essential.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Waste production in African households is incredibly small, for an apartment house with 3 floors there was only 1 medium sized dustbin, which is emptied once a week, and this is usually sufficient – but not, when you have European guests. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We decided to make a final Benin shot and burn our trash on the beach – as we had observed local people to do regularly. Where ever you look, there is a fire burning waste. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It was Sunday evening, and the beach was crammed with people enjoying the sunset – and a big fire of waste burning on the side of the road. We were curious about the reaction of people when they see us – white people – burning trash the same way they do. What would happen?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We stopped and put our waste out of the truck. Manuel drove the truck away. The situation was not discussed before, and it was quite confused. Stefan asked me to throw the waste into the fire, but I did not feel comfortable with the idea, so he started to film the sunset. After a short thought, I decided to take a bag anyway and throw it into the fire. The bag was heavy, and I went too close – the ground was loose with ashes, and I slipped right into the embers, wearing only sandals. My toes burnt like fire. I tried to get out of the ashes, but trying this I was sliding even deeper, so I let myself fall down and crept out.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In the meantime, some children had taken our other bag and started to fight over its content. Then some barefoot children ran into the hot ashes and pulled out our bag. A car passed by, the driver shouting out to us fiercely. I was looking at my toes, shocked and convinced, that I would not be able to walk for the next days. Not knowing what to do, I took some pictures, while Stefan was filming the children and Manuel came back talking to a man he just met.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I decided, that it hurt to much and asked Manuel to bring me to a doctor. Stefan hanging on the outside of the truck, we were driving back into the city for a pharmacy, where Manuel got me a salve. Then we went back to the apartment, and I spent the rest of the evening with my feet in iced water, while Stefan cooked a nice meal.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Manuel tried since noon to find a taxi to pick us up at 5 o´clock in the morning to bring us to the Nigerian border. He made countless phone calls, at the end we had 3 taxi drivers competing. None of them would bring us over the border. At 2 a.m. Manuel finally fixed an appointment with a driver from Porto Novo, who would hand us over to a Nigerian driver at the border.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-33384636383359342572010-02-06T08:48:00.000-08:002010-02-06T11:53:01.884-08:0030. 1. The tour to the market<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLavX77G0O5JMcrmCZz_2LTJHio8OPdscddhN-kgFTBcf9SsLXdektB6DsXUV7McxWGQYZACMaxD-9XbLgMyeNBjs4-VC-ygq8ONa6z-bzi5GVrOw6O7CVtviXvnbwsdrfkyOileVYgVg/s1600-h/0_streetfire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLavX77G0O5JMcrmCZz_2LTJHio8OPdscddhN-kgFTBcf9SsLXdektB6DsXUV7McxWGQYZACMaxD-9XbLgMyeNBjs4-VC-ygq8ONa6z-bzi5GVrOw6O7CVtviXvnbwsdrfkyOileVYgVg/s400/0_streetfire.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435220726420523042" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxB4oVb_7KMhMUjEXsATyBGQgzJvaOkdg37J0Wmy3EJBoX-ifBVWyqlLOJWj2OCgFU2X5g1f2r1L_qwTBDK87J9yIu8CHyjSv1PD1uw-0D5Vz8AnYUEG1CS4RSyJTiix_cd35uMsyphyphenhyphenA/s1600-h/0_markt01.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimaaVIzx8sKuYXV4g9T7_xpHsz2nb9P0aSj0uyo0dRN17IucFYqV8sm2U4ej3BzHfUfTFg-sCmvtIP6_Z6ERO0vwND_-XSKlp-pbgHrJYj6aB80fyZILF9vB79QLv-QcYAOp-C0hyphenhyphenhjQE/s400/00_frauen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435219200497567938" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;">At 9 a.m. we were at the quarter´s bottle storage to wait for Celestine, who came with baskets full of bottles, then went away to collect some further goods. The other women helped her to built a huge tower, which she put on her head, an on we walked. While in the quarter, Celestine still stopped to ring up households, and then we came to the big street, and instead of walking, we stopped 4 “zemidjans”, the moped taxies. We filmed and took pictures while driving, and on the market Celestine went to the Oxfam headquarters to sell her goods. She got cfa 2.000,- (Eur 3,50) for her collection, which she bought for cfa 1.600,-, walking from house to house for hours. This made a wage of cfa 400,- for a whole day´s work – not even 1 Euro.</span></div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We doubled up the cfa 2.000,- and bought some of the bottles for the exhibition and one of our lucky shareholders. With our budget, we could not do more.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In the afternoon I started to pack my stuff from the truck, we had to leave it in Cotonou. Stefan went to Aston to exchange a painting by Schaumbad artist Michael Maier for a work by Aston – we had discussed this at our last visit. Stefan came back with a great picture plus a small sculpture, which will be raffled of between our lucky shareholders.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">While packing, somebody started to burn their waste on the street.</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-29440017893407961692010-02-06T07:47:00.000-08:002010-02-06T08:52:26.061-08:0029. 1. Back to the waste world<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsv3UtAgRcvjK7ier1UdP_hLNX_Uvt6wW1TO5_QzfHSIoMqwOU06ORGgnMSJ9-6iUBUO2XMsvOUUi11vjFspUcDj5nYViy95HwrPY4-BqxREaQM9kgM7wFfcaKLxi9YBMI84_xQ6ABFQ/s1600-h/steyr.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsv3UtAgRcvjK7ier1UdP_hLNX_Uvt6wW1TO5_QzfHSIoMqwOU06ORGgnMSJ9-6iUBUO2XMsvOUUi11vjFspUcDj5nYViy95HwrPY4-BqxREaQM9kgM7wFfcaKLxi9YBMI84_xQ6ABFQ/s400/steyr.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435174225910743346" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gHDGoO9DjIfWyqmJbl7L_DE99Ipo5MuqQzoI21YN721AaFiNC4EsOoWpEUAJcUTrSzXESnwZ0rZYKYyWpAAju-sVw8L5aF5KCwT40snRgMRkJzVmT8qpBhpjTknSioAxaiJE_3f5NWw/s1600-h/jaqueline2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gHDGoO9DjIfWyqmJbl7L_DE99Ipo5MuqQzoI21YN721AaFiNC4EsOoWpEUAJcUTrSzXESnwZ0rZYKYyWpAAju-sVw8L5aF5KCwT40snRgMRkJzVmT8qpBhpjTknSioAxaiJE_3f5NWw/s400/jaqueline2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435174217929669938" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TxG7PRVTPGvmfF4hUYFmZNA3OVqsgdwuf6pmgf6TZEJsKaxLxxGt2MbZwIQfHfjQZX4MqWiUHMBkICInZiUESQM7S_F0I1X7BB4kmbmyK4uQIweAjQP4C-nHJLSUcXWUkrDuv21dwvg/s1600-h/oxfamKompost3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TxG7PRVTPGvmfF4hUYFmZNA3OVqsgdwuf6pmgf6TZEJsKaxLxxGt2MbZwIQfHfjQZX4MqWiUHMBkICInZiUESQM7S_F0I1X7BB4kmbmyK4uQIweAjQP4C-nHJLSUcXWUkrDuv21dwvg/s400/oxfamKompost3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435174213158642530" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After a few cheap days of doing nothing for the project we had to prepare for our way back and make loose ends meet: The story of “Oxfam Quebec” was not finished for the video, and we tried to make an appointment with Jaqueline, our competent guide from the first tour. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Jacqueline Djidonou is responsible for the empowerment of women and public relations.</span></span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We could not reach her on the phone, so we went to her office to learn, that she was at their branch in Ouidah, a few kilometres out of Cotonou. We got her cell phone number and gave her a call: we would like to interview her, but we also needed Celestine, the woman we filmed last time on her tour to buy empty bottles, cans and paper from the households. We covered the collecting part, but not her walking 3 km to the market and selling the bottles. We did not interview her so far. Jaqueline promised to find out her cell phone number and call us back.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We were about to leave the office, as Jaqueline´s boss came and asked if he could help. As Jaqueline was out of reach, I asked him for an interview, but he immediately phoned Jaqueline and told her to come to the office, which would take her about 2 hours time. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In the meantime we decided to go to the place were the women of this quarter have their bottle storage, it was quite close to the Oxfam office. We hoped to get hold of Celestine. At the storage there was the usual crowd of women washing bottles, eating, chatting. They recognized us and went away to bring Celestine, who was not happy about our request: her next tour to the market was on Monday (we would be in Lagos then), now it was Friday and she wanted to enjoy the weekend with her family. She also claimed, that she did not have enough bottles to sell. Hm, how about a small fake? We would buy the bottles from a colleague, and she could sell them and get all the money without having to collect them all day. We also would pay for her taxi to the market, so it would safe her lots of work and 3 km of walking. Finally she agreed, and we made an appointment for 9 a.m. the next day.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Jaqueline came and gave us a comprehensive interview about Oxfam Quebec – their history, structure and fields of waste management.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Basically, they take care of all solid waste in Cotonou and Ouidah: they have this plastic recycling program, a compost production from organic waste, a huge landfill site, as well as educational programs, where people learn how to avoid waste. Oxfam offers “abonnements” to all households: for a very small amount of money they get a dustbin, and Oxfam would come every week to get the waste. To promote this, they have groups of “animateurs” on the streets, in schools or walking from door to door to demonstrate the advantages of professional waste disposal. Additionally, they produce TV-spots, Jaqueline was playing in some of them.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Oxfam Quebec is a Canadian organization founded in </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">1942 to fight hunger and poverty. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In 1996, a regional office for West Africa was established in Cotonou, Benin to supervise activities in Benin, Niger, and Burkina Faso. </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Waste, which was a big problem, turned out to be a chance to provide jobs for many people, and it was a success story. Cotonou became much cleaner, and many other communes now ask for a branch in their cities. They soon will expand to Porto Novo, and probably further all over the country. http://oxfam.qc.ca/</span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-81830318242325961122010-01-27T15:08:00.000-08:002010-01-28T03:14:32.111-08:0025. 1. Leaving Sodom and Gomorrah<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlftb6Uwy8apjV4ySslzXdrY01qpanoA1tHerVfV9F_6ryERRDCHE66cd8TSXerd18cCVHwQWU2NC6BwOctSZgtayLYKnNeSGCnc5x0kYdVeZ6IIg9yrQEOOEda-Kn_mXwsuYPXHAx28/s1600-h/00_accraSG09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlftb6Uwy8apjV4ySslzXdrY01qpanoA1tHerVfV9F_6ryERRDCHE66cd8TSXerd18cCVHwQWU2NC6BwOctSZgtayLYKnNeSGCnc5x0kYdVeZ6IIg9yrQEOOEda-Kn_mXwsuYPXHAx28/s400/00_accraSG09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431563480048332562" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBnF79DkJbQmIxlsMgMzMrNPm6z48TLTYcVuhfUJOpFH3jkaQamjjYCmP1BPKByHUy1JBhAe0AAkF7S4d2_F0HO_yfPSM3F0rX-qFE2hKg13N8KO4ZTQN3l6yzMZFX91mOFCfJQwE_Ak/s1600-h/00_accraSG11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBnF79DkJbQmIxlsMgMzMrNPm6z48TLTYcVuhfUJOpFH3jkaQamjjYCmP1BPKByHUy1JBhAe0AAkF7S4d2_F0HO_yfPSM3F0rX-qFE2hKg13N8KO4ZTQN3l6yzMZFX91mOFCfJQwE_Ak/s400/00_accraSG11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431563472432249234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmTn4f-ONPW-v7npSOaS9LyArp_jmhi-QrDRuSgbZLBQvcM5sWk3xxg1cGc8GUhG-Bnf-JoSksNsShAYCCdckUg9a_J418jKvd7tpcZ7dG80vk3ffgKKQ9XCyNHgSGMXCjvSjZ30LC_o/s1600-h/000_accraSG03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmTn4f-ONPW-v7npSOaS9LyArp_jmhi-QrDRuSgbZLBQvcM5sWk3xxg1cGc8GUhG-Bnf-JoSksNsShAYCCdckUg9a_J418jKvd7tpcZ7dG80vk3ffgKKQ9XCyNHgSGMXCjvSjZ30LC_o/s400/000_accraSG03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431563464357339122" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJgjElP0Tj2Sfk7WN-gsCuTHA-vQlWpLqVjelGaAclsLsFQrbznVc3V1K_nxzHOfq_orkWM9imtKnRRC9JJIubfx9c5O2YodJv1_Rq4ayRYfr45UH33lJXyd8lDf7N4nh3F_wB0oGw0g/s1600-h/00_accraSG07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJgjElP0Tj2Sfk7WN-gsCuTHA-vQlWpLqVjelGaAclsLsFQrbznVc3V1K_nxzHOfq_orkWM9imtKnRRC9JJIubfx9c5O2YodJv1_Rq4ayRYfr45UH33lJXyd8lDf7N4nh3F_wB0oGw0g/s400/00_accraSG07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431561379564094434" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZ1XHvJLXn21q6vGKcRY_lLBpz8t3k3HBPeuZzYl50Z7hg7x2CijwsANTpnDJ4AkmHCgBn7IjerlinYHzakfFxC6X4Jkg_K3WBeKsq2gYukXVvwpIdK4YFDs4o4JaaVk0bZSRxj5fUP4/s1600-h/00_accraSG04.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZ1XHvJLXn21q6vGKcRY_lLBpz8t3k3HBPeuZzYl50Z7hg7x2CijwsANTpnDJ4AkmHCgBn7IjerlinYHzakfFxC6X4Jkg_K3WBeKsq2gYukXVvwpIdK4YFDs4o4JaaVk0bZSRxj5fUP4/s400/00_accraSG04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431561374587316290" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMWhEiTjiLeZBEfbSl8J5PX6-_Vc3nrImM2suH_ZacnjQEh0Ku8vQxOMzf2MwWyTZAcvdQnJhT9qKawwvwe5msoFr37NDmefCkewTw-nmoHX_hiulNg316OWXSr_8jFbsxUfoX-al2TQ/s1600-h/00_accraSG01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMWhEiTjiLeZBEfbSl8J5PX6-_Vc3nrImM2suH_ZacnjQEh0Ku8vQxOMzf2MwWyTZAcvdQnJhT9qKawwvwe5msoFr37NDmefCkewTw-nmoHX_hiulNg316OWXSr_8jFbsxUfoX-al2TQ/s400/00_accraSG01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431561361464155426" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Manuel had to go to the hospital for further examinations. I went to Sodom and Gomorrah again, this time with Mamasita. We went by “Trotro”, the public busses. This time we visited the other side of the river, the “residential area”. It was 10 o´clock in the morning, and many children were playing between the e-waste on the riverside. They did not speak English, so they probably don´t go to school at all. We played with them and took photos, Mamasita bought water sachets for all of them, which made them really happy. Then back to the other side, were they burned out copper and lead as usual: flames and smoke, children working, girls selling water, a herd of cows eating the organic waste in between.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The girls found photographs in the waste, some old black & white, some faded colour pix. They gave them to me, laughing, and I gave them water - another nice dividend for one of our lucky shareholders.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Mamasita presumed, that this site will grow in the future; I decided to think positive -activists like Mike Anane will raise consciousness, and this madness will stop within the next years. We will do our best to help to spread the information.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I took a taxi to the New Accra Shopping Mall to meet Manuel and Stefan with the truck. There was so much trash on the street, so I decided to throw out my dirty paper handkerchief out of the cab. Immediately a policeman approached and told me, that this is not allowed. Embarrassed, I apologized, and he let me go. The taxi driver told me, that this could have cost me a fine of 100,- Sidis (Eur 50,-), or 6 months of prison as an alternative. Keep Ghana clean! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The doctor allowed Manuel to go, so we left Accra. It was clear, that our budget will not allow us to go to Lagos for further research: Lagos is far too expensive, and we are running out of private money as well. We decided to go back to Cotonou.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-27671189122479401672010-01-27T14:31:00.000-08:002010-02-12T17:41:34.071-08:0024. 1. “Pooh-pooh Beach”, Accra<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeDoEpXJCEwajD_qjvp8eHrK3t0wrirIeWq0Pc5Uw5PNTY8yzafJR1REVch4oj5UclLogQ8QibZg9QRaZvEt3BDkkcVfbaZqi0r_oz8dtGQyi2aMDkonwfOm11cx4He-0ZRHbBdfRkvY/s1600-h/00_accrabeach001a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeDoEpXJCEwajD_qjvp8eHrK3t0wrirIeWq0Pc5Uw5PNTY8yzafJR1REVch4oj5UclLogQ8QibZg9QRaZvEt3BDkkcVfbaZqi0r_oz8dtGQyi2aMDkonwfOm11cx4He-0ZRHbBdfRkvY/s400/00_accrabeach001a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431560148347169586" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1lohH2CjYS0qzZsyvlBEG_evGcppoLpzEZ9ZOqE4imBm6ovzU_nDYOk7d8tPXa1M-ai7ILgersygwqFiHc-_LacUx7_HfOncDctiJi946J7_inBWAgw35l1uL5vEuYzuDzs1eStUFbSc/s1600-h/00_accrabeach001b.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1lohH2CjYS0qzZsyvlBEG_evGcppoLpzEZ9ZOqE4imBm6ovzU_nDYOk7d8tPXa1M-ai7ILgersygwqFiHc-_LacUx7_HfOncDctiJi946J7_inBWAgw35l1uL5vEuYzuDzs1eStUFbSc/s400/00_accrabeach001b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431560145954600674" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImZZWFSkYbm_-aP9XnhquKb2aGBi2G5UTdQ5y-Y53G38UbUCE8zfK7JP1GYban-CEWVJo53pNIFjyvvYll1ZAkb7RzsZmL3N5_tAuhgM92yU2KhOt5Q5a2MVOAMzvqd8Sb87_LsxLHag/s1600-h/00_accraBeach03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImZZWFSkYbm_-aP9XnhquKb2aGBi2G5UTdQ5y-Y53G38UbUCE8zfK7JP1GYban-CEWVJo53pNIFjyvvYll1ZAkb7RzsZmL3N5_tAuhgM92yU2KhOt5Q5a2MVOAMzvqd8Sb87_LsxLHag/s400/00_accraBeach03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431558852776174498" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDW6yJ4xwwrMsVCSzqpCtfs9YRGTqTBWPiLADDR8OIbp06Iq3DSVnAkSAftMIlgneBnUDVLiqoEdGf9q51-mfABPoXe8YQgHtfq1nw-g7A7nZHWzeX_YOYV5HZ6uN4aKWxCmdJW7zFP34/s1600-h/00_accraBeach01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDW6yJ4xwwrMsVCSzqpCtfs9YRGTqTBWPiLADDR8OIbp06Iq3DSVnAkSAftMIlgneBnUDVLiqoEdGf9q51-mfABPoXe8YQgHtfq1nw-g7A7nZHWzeX_YOYV5HZ6uN4aKWxCmdJW7zFP34/s400/00_accraBeach01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431558841965684658" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;font-size:small;">Mamasita, a Polish-Spanish artist in our hostel told us again, that the shore around Accra is incredibly dirty. It is her third time in Accra, and she knows the situation well. We started together, this time with our truck. We chose to go near the lighthouse, where the river running through Sodom and Gomorrah flows into the sea. We noticed, that we were approaching the right place by the intense smell of shit getting stronger.</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Getting out of the truck, a fisherman welcomed us to his nice beach – if we were here for swimming? He told, that he and he colleagues were out there fishing every day. The water was brown, the smell indescribable. If they are also fishing shit? Well, sometimes they had nasty things in their nets, yes. He brought us to the source of “pooh-pooh”, and Stefan filmed the smelly, brown liquid going into the sea. All of a sudden, a fierce looking man, accompanied by 2 other men with big muscles appeared and shouted at us: we need permission of the mayor to film here, he knows were the material ends up, it will be in TV and in the internet and he will have trouble. We should delete our material. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I was collecting water sachets all the time and told him, that we are only collecting trash to make recycling art. I showed my collection, which confused him completely, and he let us go. He had a big car, and the fisherman said, this is big brother, making big money out of pooh-pooh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Stefan took our fisherman to a place hidden between bricks and made an interview: many of the fishermen´s children are sick all the time, because the fish is poisoned. They went to the mayor to complain, but the mayor told them to wait, things will become better. They are running out of money, because the doctors are expensive. They don´t know where to go, and there seems to be no help.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We went back to the tourist beach to eat, but we will never eat fish again in this area, nor swim in the sea, with the “pooh-pooh-beach” only 2 km away from the posh tourist hotels with their expensive, “clean” beaches.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-77019131737570022672010-01-27T14:27:00.000-08:002010-01-27T15:36:20.046-08:0023. 1. La Beach Resort<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQlBhLq2YrJcZq_22WCx4Rw-ZfH0rRhMRqxBPQkfzTk5DHHQoEXI0MBH6bDqgsoysiCMcVL6IfcoiD_aj8YsfF-T_khx1JQgcdg9Jva99v-P12_fY54bsodQ0bCmXPxtG_I8moBCYKx8/s1600-h/000_accraSG05.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQlBhLq2YrJcZq_22WCx4Rw-ZfH0rRhMRqxBPQkfzTk5DHHQoEXI0MBH6bDqgsoysiCMcVL6IfcoiD_aj8YsfF-T_khx1JQgcdg9Jva99v-P12_fY54bsodQ0bCmXPxtG_I8moBCYKx8/s400/000_accraSG05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431567509901253234" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOY6lpdDloLqKnwfSnEy6D8mMiAo1MP2yobZFooxDwnLH9VQMQnwdplfKXhaFp_pI5qwpLX0VHqb2HtpkbMeh1TmTfEagciZMw_tBko619ulfo1SYxAu-tSk4wUenKVsnuUvr2mR3tN3I/s1600-h/00_accraBeach002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOY6lpdDloLqKnwfSnEy6D8mMiAo1MP2yobZFooxDwnLH9VQMQnwdplfKXhaFp_pI5qwpLX0VHqb2HtpkbMeh1TmTfEagciZMw_tBko619ulfo1SYxAu-tSk4wUenKVsnuUvr2mR3tN3I/s400/00_accraBeach002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431550199752493970" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7m6ShNpwmovkqca3fXVOpySwwrds7f2RyMEdy39G9_l5Q3aQL1IrsZxgxd8tlhGqmpFa_Bj6c3jlA9h4VHLKk_DNuBavUoOfzlvE5rmGeFLb7GNpM28qzK8JlFmOe9FhPt3k6E3tSPmY/s1600-h/00_accraBeach001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7m6ShNpwmovkqca3fXVOpySwwrds7f2RyMEdy39G9_l5Q3aQL1IrsZxgxd8tlhGqmpFa_Bj6c3jlA9h4VHLKk_DNuBavUoOfzlvE5rmGeFLb7GNpM28qzK8JlFmOe9FhPt3k6E3tSPmY/s400/00_accraBeach001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431550198883502418" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We were told, that lots of Accra´s waste ends up on the beach. Stefan and I took a taxi, telling the driver, that we are looking for a dirty beach. We ended up at “La Beach Resort”, were we had to pay Eur 2,- entrance fee.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The beach was packed with tourists, shops, a bar, lots of merchants selling clothes, CDs, masks, jewellery, food, horse rides or themselves (women and men).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The beach itself was quite clean, except a few water sachets and some plastic bags. Inside the water it looked different – you had to swim slalom between plastic bags.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">So here somebody collects the plastic on the beach – but were are the “wild” beaches? We could not find, there was one expensive hotel after the other, with air condition, swimming pools and beach bars, wellness programs and plastic burning in the backyard. Entrance fee to the hotel beach for non-residents is about Eur 7,50.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We went to Sodom and Gomorrah again, some people recognized us, I bought some water from the girls and gave it to the workers, who use it to cool the hot metals. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">A bunch of young men came running over the place, some of them had soccer balls and they started to play.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-77898454977980664012010-01-24T01:15:00.001-08:002010-01-24T01:33:51.506-08:0022. 1. Not a Waste Recycle Studio<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxVhGWcR6WVu_8UNuu2XVPlVHE4vgZvwlkWMcDSrDDdi4CYZrm-pa3dez_4kmAdFQIKu8N1UDFZURBLB5Rk8N6U2NFRt7bi_gfw5AlP3XexyPe-Gs_Pnjhh2I7dmXFGG6-UHYAvkllMs/s1600-h/00art03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxVhGWcR6WVu_8UNuu2XVPlVHE4vgZvwlkWMcDSrDDdi4CYZrm-pa3dez_4kmAdFQIKu8N1UDFZURBLB5Rk8N6U2NFRt7bi_gfw5AlP3XexyPe-Gs_Pnjhh2I7dmXFGG6-UHYAvkllMs/s400/00art03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430236569366479666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpYqWoj9N52uRdpuaYqgKchwWf4BIGQKugYWxFwG97mBB9joM2MZGuJi4A7besfCNIqzsmzQqoXMIM3X30MWb9C06Xa7lYJHsAfgwq-t7xQ46MvIftAsTxp6Tvik8U1wWpKTrZmhDYp6k/s1600-h/00art07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpYqWoj9N52uRdpuaYqgKchwWf4BIGQKugYWxFwG97mBB9joM2MZGuJi4A7besfCNIqzsmzQqoXMIM3X30MWb9C06Xa7lYJHsAfgwq-t7xQ46MvIftAsTxp6Tvik8U1wWpKTrZmhDYp6k/s400/00art07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430236565499964322" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDu0yShr9zyC59sp75P0WXcyVUZpvsax8LnWd5rwPg-Kl2gp0LXfU8fBr40qjjn-2yCWOGVua4px7Upr5tCpXwaxpcRiz7HMzQLRhJSUZGUJ3cQkxG779-nlgnSxBAcc5dNwJAOLKICg/s1600-h/00art04.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDu0yShr9zyC59sp75P0WXcyVUZpvsax8LnWd5rwPg-Kl2gp0LXfU8fBr40qjjn-2yCWOGVua4px7Upr5tCpXwaxpcRiz7HMzQLRhJSUZGUJ3cQkxG779-nlgnSxBAcc5dNwJAOLKICg/s400/00art04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430236566231645058" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBgTFE4SdxqqNTTUCs9XiaVvrAZEv_FAl4072KywTojhHApL3kKKtD-DAbpSoWj2Zzegxsm66NFcznJco0qKjX6O1Yq__B_HUsHM5dXN6nTfhfYsSRVo9mg3NrIbUhWyV3RPTwD1ZczoA/s1600-h/00art02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBgTFE4SdxqqNTTUCs9XiaVvrAZEv_FAl4072KywTojhHApL3kKKtD-DAbpSoWj2Zzegxsm66NFcznJco0qKjX6O1Yq__B_HUsHM5dXN6nTfhfYsSRVo9mg3NrIbUhWyV3RPTwD1ZczoA/s400/00art02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430234785004816066" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuio07gWQwDMks63Mw7UH2XR_kmMoVXxsVbLKlVHxg5ld41YYjAAMl9TxcR5Q2_hCgoXZuxkKjSbnNpGIpNl3R8Ehgytl2tdFbKwX_ZPQQFcOdZBO79Mhw-yrk9uoCNAILqB3GxPLg7Qg/s1600-h/00art01.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuio07gWQwDMks63Mw7UH2XR_kmMoVXxsVbLKlVHxg5ld41YYjAAMl9TxcR5Q2_hCgoXZuxkKjSbnNpGIpNl3R8Ehgytl2tdFbKwX_ZPQQFcOdZBO79Mhw-yrk9uoCNAILqB3GxPLg7Qg/s400/00art01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430233202632253346" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></a><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"></span></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> the morning Manuel was fine, but quite weak and tired. I called John Owoo, an art journalist from Accra, recommended by Wendelin Schmidt. We met up at 2 p.m., and he brought us to an artist working with waste: Tei Mensah Huagie, founder and director of “Not a Waste Recycle Studio” (</span><a href="http://www.nawtei.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.nawtei.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here we found our “missing link”: an artist recycling plastic. We found our good old friend, the water bottle in installations and pictures, water sachets as clothes, bags, walls, but also flip flops as chairs and hats, as well as hammered corrugated iron and cables as sculptures. Tei is a witty fashion designer and sculptor, with many fresh ideas, like his work “Public Urinal”, a light wall construction, made out of painted PET bottles.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tei is working a lot with students, he conducts workshops in recycling art and sells the products. This educates the young people not to throw away things on the streets, but see everything as potential materials for something new and collect it.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We wanted to buy everything in this plastic wonderland, but we are at our very limits now. I loved his installations and pictures, but his prices are near international level, so we could only afford some small works (bag made out of water sachets, 1 hat made of flip flops).</span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-75215144962913198362010-01-24T01:14:00.000-08:002010-01-28T03:17:22.985-08:0020. 1. Stuck<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9m7ge9HQ_JqXX-c7an9vNXVuiB5nXMcYbBaQugo9qA9kf9apd1U60a51rG_iuFmM-wOnh2aqu1wuk7udZJJhyDoWCdvIUInmxKZYrxiUyNAKfvZbS_uEW-DXGw5Nld06sCLzg56qYJE/s1600-h/00cart.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd9m7ge9HQ_JqXX-c7an9vNXVuiB5nXMcYbBaQugo9qA9kf9apd1U60a51rG_iuFmM-wOnh2aqu1wuk7udZJJhyDoWCdvIUInmxKZYrxiUyNAKfvZbS_uEW-DXGw5Nld06sCLzg56qYJE/s400/00cart.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430237919031189874" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Igor left early in the morning for his flight to Lagos. Stefan and me were sleeping on the roof top terrace of the Hostel, suddenly Manuel stood in front of us, he felt worse. This time we took a taxi to the best hospital in town, Western standard, located in the big, new Accra Mall.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Again paying, this time for blood tests and EKG. The doctor prescribed Aspirin and 3 days bed rest. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The shopping mall was a strange new world for us: what wonderful goods like real milk, yoghurt, butter, cheese, black bread, coffee, cakes, fruit – everything more expensive than in Austria, but what a paradise - unreachable for most of the people living here.</span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-68857430203289857122010-01-24T01:13:00.000-08:002010-01-24T02:37:00.143-08:0019. 1. Igor leaving<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNB-5YVQAs3cMW2Lq1VE7Kd3-1xHYE_PP28VPhQBak_usyaUSpB5yzquotMP0rkJYApDPiedd_uhC5LOMHaVWtYCqmtLksRtgTDKkYjfeKyycXrgfQ852UKmcgqoY_395tGX_VGTN-kGs/s1600-h/00maggimarkt2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNB-5YVQAs3cMW2Lq1VE7Kd3-1xHYE_PP28VPhQBak_usyaUSpB5yzquotMP0rkJYApDPiedd_uhC5LOMHaVWtYCqmtLksRtgTDKkYjfeKyycXrgfQ852UKmcgqoY_395tGX_VGTN-kGs/s400/00maggimarkt2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430253256047038594" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnA2f16jnbe1dyLBAKZ9C8wC9IsKDUqLBENIRpEY76xTzopVJh4gcfoIE9KaDPXInFuGrj_mJdGEK7NGT6NbD4NwBIQTyF_wjdslW7XWk9bv-Np1zJrFaDXiev0r2ZifyqmgsvOsA2WYE/s1600-h/00maggimarkt.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnA2f16jnbe1dyLBAKZ9C8wC9IsKDUqLBENIRpEY76xTzopVJh4gcfoIE9KaDPXInFuGrj_mJdGEK7NGT6NbD4NwBIQTyF_wjdslW7XWk9bv-Np1zJrFaDXiev0r2ZifyqmgsvOsA2WYE/s400/00maggimarkt.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430253248884966866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivG5bAjxxQbNI7oB7TWe9NKBZYZ2pnNie6PuTrs5BTTkzGCRFem5FUZmlP18R90BGgXVqmygyPkg1j2y6b05dnxQ9-aGWEj5KYkPtm1yVTSaG9DI2WdwwC2PijP3wGGan9IF4kTuRxhck/s1600-h/00heaven.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivG5bAjxxQbNI7oB7TWe9NKBZYZ2pnNie6PuTrs5BTTkzGCRFem5FUZmlP18R90BGgXVqmygyPkg1j2y6b05dnxQ9-aGWEj5KYkPtm1yVTSaG9DI2WdwwC2PijP3wGGan9IF4kTuRxhck/s400/00heaven.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430252628481562338" /><br /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;"></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;">Picking up Manuel from the hospital in the morning failed – he had to get another drip. Stefan went to buy him something for breakfast, a nurse accompanied him. Stefan asked for some vegetables, the shopkeeper and the nurse were shocked: vegetables for a sick man? No, you can´t do this!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;">At 3 p.m. we finally could take him to our hostel.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial, serif;">Money is running quickly – drips, injections, pills, taxis… "Heaven" is an empty box of matches on the streets, and real women use "Maggi".</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It was Igor´s last day with us, so we went to the market and bought lots of vegetables, fruit and some wine. Then we cooked a nice meal and stayed up late. Igor gave Gansberger´s second antlers in a photographic ceremony to a Swedish couple, who are building a lodge out of mud (with wood construction) at the west coast. We will visit them at their “Desertrose Lodge” next time we come to Ghana.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-46778016450842912582010-01-20T12:43:00.000-08:002010-01-28T01:24:16.376-08:0018. 1. Sodom and Gomorrah<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYzMbWvMedkN2f02EOFSgDktB4x_WlHaPsx_v5-DtRLiL90UvN9tpV-GP68SkRiX0gj0ehX1VQKdh3cjj3OP-j2BUJjo8QEEMNoYEIbDfYfp02AeeQZ76qcOZJpJ5g5yy9n53rncqzFg/s1600-h/girl.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeYzMbWvMedkN2f02EOFSgDktB4x_WlHaPsx_v5-DtRLiL90UvN9tpV-GP68SkRiX0gj0ehX1VQKdh3cjj3OP-j2BUJjo8QEEMNoYEIbDfYfp02AeeQZ76qcOZJpJ5g5yy9n53rncqzFg/s320/girl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428928957390969826" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYVmA6ZwPFbnR5TcqdCjijOHjK0Q_IRE7doQsvq8XYhC4Q2kJLOvr32Dl-KhbZrxtLFntfg-MF4zVheCQmoJ5pOikBgGW9S3EbEk7XnF-TuXkL2IjQkRbXEYBzg2Utr4ZWCQS5nbzEkk/s1600-h/god.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDvOZbvG-z7_GXgLSHfpJ76TTBklrec02uO9WvD2ymS2z75UvRiWwKFsGk9tgeLI6RwNqyU94naUN0Db0Dbe3ioPvHjLJlPme54Yu6dIbS7j0SWapyqiI-kanHVI32Fpc97I49eZ338Q/s320/ras_waste.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428926740975113074" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">At 2 p.m. we had an appointment with Mike Anane, and he brought us to the e-waste dump site. Sodom and Gomorrah is the name of the district, and it used to be the slums out of Accra, with high criminality. But in those times, it had green meadows, and the children were playing soccer there. So did Mike.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">He goes there 3 times a week to talk to the people, make photographs and video testimonies, and collect waste with foreign labels. Mike looked a little bit like us, walking through the trash, collecting here and there. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Some of the electronic waste comes directly from the port – they check, if the devices work, and then bring them to this place. Other items go to small shops, the owners buy them and then find out, that they don´t work. They put them out on the street then, where people with carts come to collect and bring to this dump site. Here mostly children are working: they smash the devices and melt out the copper and lead. The smoke is extremely poisonous, lead makes people aggressive, thus causing fights. Many people there have serious scars everywhere. Most of all, the smoke causes cancer, and this children die early. They have diseases all the time. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">They mostly have single mothers, who don´t know how to buy enough food to feed them, or buy school books. Most of them go to school in the morning, and work on the dump site all afternoon. The smoke is also bad for the brain, and most of them have very small bodies for their age, while their faces look older than they are. Children from all around come to Accra to work on this site, even from the neighbour countries, like Togo.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Girls work there to sell food or water, which is also used for cooling the metals. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We collected some dividends for our lucky shareholders, and the girls helping me to carry got some coins at the end – about 50 cents each, which is half of the daily income of the workers here.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">On the way to the dump site, we noticed a green truck with the letters “RAS WASTE”, and “ADD JESUS TO YOUR LIFE”: the local disposal company of liquid manure. They empty their tanks directly into the sea, unfiltered. Mike told us, that he also was fighting against this practise, and that a new law against this is about to come.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">When we came back, Manuel had 39,4 degrees fever, and we had to bring him to the hospital. “Mama” explained the driver where to go, and after about 2 km of driving, the taxi driver asked us, if we knew where to go. Then he continued driving. We stopped him, he asked other drivers, they showed in one direction and our driver went to another direction. We insisted to leave the taxi and asked people – there was a hospital around the corner, and we walked there. Manuel had to spend the night in the hospital – Malaria.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-39705727742981773372010-01-20T12:42:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:46:05.821-08:0017. 1. Accra<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkyoyqi4HrRBjEIk2KvcMVU5O7Xr9RyjZvb2SSLNOsFM0ZmT81im-ZxUtqJuH_4qXnQa_UqTFCPbzC0o3NVlb4hN397ieyL9H_g09eMGt1UKNj2StHoFPlQQxyElguK9T6Zn_8aWm9Ag/s1600-h/accratrash02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkyoyqi4HrRBjEIk2KvcMVU5O7Xr9RyjZvb2SSLNOsFM0ZmT81im-ZxUtqJuH_4qXnQa_UqTFCPbzC0o3NVlb4hN397ieyL9H_g09eMGt1UKNj2StHoFPlQQxyElguK9T6Zn_8aWm9Ag/s400/accratrash02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429281025194862226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgob7RBQ-kckqSCPYA1Pi35BdSnC_bp403TZuKRMMxw3LXbTkdP0ocIaOt0DtQGtZiFyCtPLuzlUUB6uTTfOyMtUot7c7sINvA1BjVR9UknVNcWEIQyUOZalWNzrx6a2iY_NaBN3FbkTZQ/s1600-h/00mistkuebel1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgob7RBQ-kckqSCPYA1Pi35BdSnC_bp403TZuKRMMxw3LXbTkdP0ocIaOt0DtQGtZiFyCtPLuzlUUB6uTTfOyMtUot7c7sINvA1BjVR9UknVNcWEIQyUOZalWNzrx6a2iY_NaBN3FbkTZQ/s400/00mistkuebel1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429281019155689554" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiRreLYIOhgZpf-gtFVBFMNvmuOQ8R0kpu97BLAo2tYI_kEpvbEU1YI-STawWA8oiohjo0J1gwefZxDooL3tYtSQX783Fs-nzOZk1h0qoLl8J1LV5hL17E0QQS5pxvDFtWsVvx0ZCviw/s1600-h/0favelas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiRreLYIOhgZpf-gtFVBFMNvmuOQ8R0kpu97BLAo2tYI_kEpvbEU1YI-STawWA8oiohjo0J1gwefZxDooL3tYtSQX783Fs-nzOZk1h0qoLl8J1LV5hL17E0QQS5pxvDFtWsVvx0ZCviw/s400/0favelas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429281015943169666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoIYM66xK4owltKtiNu28wFNAGb4GFdb7KIFLWFDAKEnCu6mSYKJpwCX2T6_lXWuEBew3aIAxGxLVum5kMHKqG3-7Ct7u4dbDwbEuqV0W_cOg1CQ7_rcNMkLgOgGuVANT66Jt9smMSC6E/s1600-h/00mistkuebel2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoIYM66xK4owltKtiNu28wFNAGb4GFdb7KIFLWFDAKEnCu6mSYKJpwCX2T6_lXWuEBew3aIAxGxLVum5kMHKqG3-7Ct7u4dbDwbEuqV0W_cOg1CQ7_rcNMkLgOgGuVANT66Jt9smMSC6E/s400/00mistkuebel2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429281010632437442" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Browsing for a reasonably priced place, I found the description of the way to the cheap hostel we were looking for the other day. It took us more than an hour to find it, at the end a woman brought us there. Crystal Hostel is very well hidden, no signs, nothing. Quiet place with a big mango tree in the middle of the yard, we finally felt at home and safe. Manuel went to bed immediately, we called Mike Anane, a local journalist and activist, whose contact we got from the Austrian NGO “Südwind”: they made a documentation about a huge electro-waste site in Accra, where all the broken computers and electronic devices from Europe and the USA are disposed. About 80% of the second hand electronic devices sent to Ghana are completely useless, they end up at this dump site, where mostly children work to put out useful parts.</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We told other guests about our project, and Julia, a Swedish woman, who builds a lodge on the country side in Ghana together with her boy friend, showed us a purse made out of woven plastic bags. There are some small NGOs on the countryside, who make different items out of waste.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-82598380518427420722010-01-20T12:41:00.001-08:002010-01-28T03:21:31.095-08:0016. 1. Fever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWY2MtPHvECLd4JN9uu4XIdTkA5XuvdDKrpX3jmfmBT4iyCOPWtm5fIuhQ1w_4CjeNHWdWnaUgb_DR1q9ER5blEmNM7cL6joT55DJiRi7mopGC2nSUZmzk3zJ4Jpgf8CzKiF-wYnsZenU/s1600-h/accrabeach2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWY2MtPHvECLd4JN9uu4XIdTkA5XuvdDKrpX3jmfmBT4iyCOPWtm5fIuhQ1w_4CjeNHWdWnaUgb_DR1q9ER5blEmNM7cL6joT55DJiRi7mopGC2nSUZmzk3zJ4Jpgf8CzKiF-wYnsZenU/s400/accrabeach2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429278484217362194" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjO6d9w2KH4Awl6r5YMBN8h1LEEwqxnrbJSZ1yh164YAt5gYwgH6Ig5fv3znA9OiiUsb_kKAHNwvFa0N1nTCwhpHOsxrYQQ92Rro8qxC3bS-K1bu-28-oNL90whKSmWhhGWACOl5Lk5Q/s1600-h/accratheater2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjO6d9w2KH4Awl6r5YMBN8h1LEEwqxnrbJSZ1yh164YAt5gYwgH6Ig5fv3znA9OiiUsb_kKAHNwvFa0N1nTCwhpHOsxrYQQ92Rro8qxC3bS-K1bu-28-oNL90whKSmWhhGWACOl5Lk5Q/s320/accratheater2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429234953121869266" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig7DYp0ALLxCaT_8cx0aAcb9_b03Mb1qryCi57t6gEsHOEe1JfHzYGaPyYbMGGozFPf1LoKDtsmxTOaojHVN7sjIR9LyEqZGv5xfZIPv6CvPtk_dBKGYxmNRwyZKIog_5VOhljZw3nvSs/s1600-h/accrarein02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig7DYp0ALLxCaT_8cx0aAcb9_b03Mb1qryCi57t6gEsHOEe1JfHzYGaPyYbMGGozFPf1LoKDtsmxTOaojHVN7sjIR9LyEqZGv5xfZIPv6CvPtk_dBKGYxmNRwyZKIog_5VOhljZw3nvSs/s320/accrarein02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429234946855443890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMBbrJYGFaE8ctW4adTW3J2W3t1GH6yYh8KRgudsJsHFWhQMa3h_Ew-mJs1yGVdeSybGT9mK9sYk4499m4HCeCcQiw_QOT6PWTTStYiU2H6ULPrhdl7fb_MgYajnFjlONBgi7kDfh2wE/s1600-h/accrarein01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMBbrJYGFaE8ctW4adTW3J2W3t1GH6yYh8KRgudsJsHFWhQMa3h_Ew-mJs1yGVdeSybGT9mK9sYk4499m4HCeCcQiw_QOT6PWTTStYiU2H6ULPrhdl7fb_MgYajnFjlONBgi7kDfh2wE/s320/accrarein01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429234945879154690" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In the morning Manuel felt really sick. After getting the final stamp, we passed the border and he lay down sleeping. The street to Accra was running through countless small villages, and it took us almost the whole day. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Accra is a fast growing city with about 2 million inhabitants. It looks like an American or European metropolis in its center: huge, modern architecture, theatres, parks. Everything looks nice and clean, almost no trash.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We asked a taxi driver to guide us to a hostel we found in the “Lonely Planet”, but the taxi driver did not know it and brought us to another place, but it was dirty and humid. Manuel had fever and refused.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">At the internet café nearby we found a hostel run by the Methodist Church nearby. A taxi driver brought us there, but there was loud gospel music and we were supposed to put the truck out of the yard at 6 o´clock in the morning, because next day was Sunday. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We decided to eat first, then started to look for a place again. At a restaurant on the beach we asked an American tourist for reasonably priced accommodation, and he sent us to a “Rasta”-place. Manuel started hallucinating. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The “Rasta”-place was a posh tourist resort, somebody sent us further along the beach. At the end we found an expensive, posh Chinese hotel in the middle of the Favelas. Manuel got a room with air condition and felt better immediately. We spent the evening talking to the people around.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The sea we saw so far was all littered with these low-quality black plastic bags, which break at first use. I decided to start collecting this bags.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-57043322452245756192010-01-20T12:39:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:47:36.666-08:0015. 1. Between the borders<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjh3lShOvnSMWAjCXZnb_7Wav_7WTDsUhFJer5G3WMx84k0ICNDJUOb7pNPRiKZJqPf3A8bpkiTzgUhcHGLMRMru-BXpiFcDwKK2GvUiD5j005Sjz9Q9gU1Qi1HBSiS8Go-ROFOOw4OIA/s1600-h/border.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjh3lShOvnSMWAjCXZnb_7Wav_7WTDsUhFJer5G3WMx84k0ICNDJUOb7pNPRiKZJqPf3A8bpkiTzgUhcHGLMRMru-BXpiFcDwKK2GvUiD5j005Sjz9Q9gU1Qi1HBSiS8Go-ROFOOw4OIA/s400/border.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429246494812786370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We got our visa immediately, and headed for the border. There we were told, that we needed a carnet, otherwise we had to pay the value of the truck as a guarantee, that we would not sell it in Ghana. They were talking about Eur 2.000,-, which we did not have.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Next round: from officer to officer, finding out, that it was also possible by making a bond. There were insurance companies doing this, and they charged Eur 100,- - still too much for our tight budget. Back to the first officer, asking if there are cheaper options. He sent us over the border to Ghana, there was a row of offices. We walked over the border like many other people, without even showing our passports.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">On the other side, we found an office where they offered us to write a letter, telling that we are tourists and politely ask to enter the country with our truck and promise to bring the truck out of the country again. This sounded ridiculous, but we thought: ok, this is Africa – who knows. The man wrote the letter by hand on a paper, I typed it into the computer, and then we went to an official decorated with 4 stars, who signed and stamped the letter. Then back to the other officer, who asked: “But where is the bond?” So back to the beginning: what is a bond, what does it have to look like? Over the border again, back to the office. They asked us to wait. Then back to Togo, we went to the 4-star officer and asked what we could do and why it did not work. He made a phone call and sent us back to the first place.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In the late afternoon, the officer there brought us a man from an insurance company, which would charge a correct price. Back to Ghana, filling in forms, and then: Eur 50,-. With the guy back the officer, we asked, why it was so expensive. The officer started to shout at the insurance guy and told him, that it was Eur 25,- - an amount we were happy to accept.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Then back to the waiting room, the man were running around with forms, and about 1 hour later it was – almost – done: They phoned a man who was at home already back to the office, he signed and stamped, and then it turned out, that a signature of the chief officer was necessary, and he was gone already.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It was dark, and we had to spend the night between the borders. The guard told us to please move the truck to another parking place, because at night there might be some shadows of people jumping over the walls, and then he has to shoot. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The parking lot was filled with rusted cars, which were confiscated because of fake number plates.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The area between the borders was an interesting place: usually, these places were already indicated from far by lots of trash. Here it was the opposite: dustbins everywhere, and posters with “Keep your environment clean”. I threw a banana peel on the ground, and immediately somebody came and showed me the dustbin.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I only found a few water sachets, and one big fence with black plastic bags all over. Taking photos was not allowed, and we did not render for more trouble.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-57465634222324533432010-01-20T12:35:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:48:00.891-08:0014. 1. Togo<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Going to the embassy early, lots of people. 4 passport photos obligatory, we went out to make photos. After some hours waiting and filling out forms, we were told to come back the next day. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Some German guy we met there explained us how to get to a nice place to stay, run by a Swiss lady: “Chez Alice”. It was close to the beach, a little bit out of Lomé: clean, beautiful and cheap, with brilliant internet connection. They serve Swiss food (“Rösti”), also vegetarian stuff, and they have their home-made ice tea out of a local plant. Lots of dogs around, playing; cats, some monkeys; old style African furniture, masks on the wall. Gert Chesi, the famous Austrian photographer and director of the "Haus der Völker" in Schwaz, Tyrol, usually stays there, Alice showed us his books. We enjoyed the first newspapers since long, good food and friendly atmosphere.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Igor explored Lomé, I felt sick and went to bed early.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-32360303288707025662010-01-20T12:32:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:48:43.612-08:0013. 1. Leaving for Ghana<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpDNyiFjP8jp3h0uJ6hJGDx-ML9t8BIMIknRRlueqt_-xhpB6XN4OWrEbm-thBpGzbQmzZ_Kp-tCp1t_vvcTq-GqJtbxTBQOmudg-sMPdjGi473BqBMICkEz3R8UzAdtwpj7d-xRy8x30/s1600-h/lkw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpDNyiFjP8jp3h0uJ6hJGDx-ML9t8BIMIknRRlueqt_-xhpB6XN4OWrEbm-thBpGzbQmzZ_Kp-tCp1t_vvcTq-GqJtbxTBQOmudg-sMPdjGi473BqBMICkEz3R8UzAdtwpj7d-xRy8x30/s400/lkw.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429274140766382130" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBY20JaXgeS_57DrFsLDohoHJhHhQOkn_lWcyXrlz7ABuqZ90VLOv4-6m8ZXIZH5gJQsRDgsH22bvwybjRK7bYd3aKOmIaVM9iena_n2PJ5ASvK-tQX8migUwLucq2IkwiNe8USlkDm4c/s1600-h/togo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBY20JaXgeS_57DrFsLDohoHJhHhQOkn_lWcyXrlz7ABuqZ90VLOv4-6m8ZXIZH5gJQsRDgsH22bvwybjRK7bYd3aKOmIaVM9iena_n2PJ5ASvK-tQX8migUwLucq2IkwiNe8USlkDm4c/s400/togo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429274130922057698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WDYycmYqA0kHjeWxAp-gGFjPsJh0k4bVkJrAeLp_tCzGPS5nfSsNiFBaxTWJAOv3HkcQvVGQwTK1I4R6cqhYLzyLvIhdMmaN_qACfqZGDgWGrZCE78C7w9dqtASIsO1H1dtxhNWbEBY/s1600-h/fahrtBenin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WDYycmYqA0kHjeWxAp-gGFjPsJh0k4bVkJrAeLp_tCzGPS5nfSsNiFBaxTWJAOv3HkcQvVGQwTK1I4R6cqhYLzyLvIhdMmaN_qACfqZGDgWGrZCE78C7w9dqtASIsO1H1dtxhNWbEBY/s400/fahrtBenin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429274127171773858" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui2ZqhVeDTwBnD5NheJxVuc3s1TPTIbwafVfyAxobgA-aFynjREWeZE1u9XndEe7KV-kYjOeEXQTNm5p6hFtiD68FL17N_zuHs_r5gBk2n-CU2CPwQGAqaPS1NuuYF_ECMpqkMpjldDE/s1600-h/gin.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui2ZqhVeDTwBnD5NheJxVuc3s1TPTIbwafVfyAxobgA-aFynjREWeZE1u9XndEe7KV-kYjOeEXQTNm5p6hFtiD68FL17N_zuHs_r5gBk2n-CU2CPwQGAqaPS1NuuYF_ECMpqkMpjldDE/s400/gin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429274122035930658" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Our travelling guide says, that you can take a bus from Cotonou to Accra, and arrive the same day. We packed our truck and started around noon. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Before crossing the border to Togo, Manuel wanted to visit a friend, who has a lodge on the seaside. His wife told us, that he was arrested, because he had borrowed his car to a relative who commited a crime, and they found him as the owner of the car. We collected some dividends for our shareholders on the beach and back on the road.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The border to Togo was easy, we got our visa immediately, and wanted to spend the night around Lomé (capital of Togo). Looking for a good place to stay, we suddenly were on the border to Ghana. The sun went down, and the border was really busy: people packed with lots of stuff, discussing, shouting, negociating. We went out to get visa – inshallah -, but were sent back: no more visa at the border, we had to apply at the embassy in Lomé.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Back to Togo, we had the departure-stamp in our passports already. It was dark, and still no place to stay. Hungry we went into a Chinese restaurant to eat, and asked if we could sleep next to their entrance and guardian, so we were protected for the night.</span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-39376201924061881292010-01-20T12:21:00.000-08:002010-01-24T01:49:31.449-08:0011. 1. Cotonou Trash Art and "Alibert Voodoo"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCYTV615kcli-ntCJLAmzP1BPr0e_QutJC0Iq7MhlpKRgvlu2NRaejQWilO7IrmchWr4SgGJdFokqkWnE6u5ChbBROg7M81BB8V3Y1fw2nhkreNNOVBOrfsgPEsJqVFxDL3S0DIxDM20/s1600-h/0allibert01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCYTV615kcli-ntCJLAmzP1BPr0e_QutJC0Iq7MhlpKRgvlu2NRaejQWilO7IrmchWr4SgGJdFokqkWnE6u5ChbBROg7M81BB8V3Y1fw2nhkreNNOVBOrfsgPEsJqVFxDL3S0DIxDM20/s320/0allibert01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428921145734488962" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3MKiBRFEpQ418KEn0QRc8dSUlWLIPnveOmZojOlwLjfbTWyXWbsl48BHVqHzp9yZnuML88qPENebYp903JZXhFNntE8nfcIKknmWE6XCgmIF6HZyM6Mx5GGwJ9bZzd9EC1Fobb4-_RW8/s1600-h/0allibert02.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgczaI4aIdCqbF6YdmA6Ie-3I2Cm05EWY-2W3GFL6Zy0JdxrfbRy6PgYM0BPeb2ddard9z5t5HSPUW1HV1Iwmw-dSQuNufStdS6po7mNbJOf4O0dcRlSvBaZKiXFtzKRl56rPDVGlPShc0/s320/0aston.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428920676151071938" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><br /></span></span><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Maryam and Joachim had to leave for Lagos. The rest of us finally wanted to leave Cotonou for Ghana. Before this, we decided to apply for visa for Nigeria, as we all have flights out of Lagos, and the officer at the Nigerian embassy in Cotonou gave Maryam and Joachim visa without asking for bribes (which really surprised them after their border experience).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Arriving at the embassy, they were out of application forms and asked us to go and make copies, but some more for their further use. Then we had an interview to prove, that we “deserve to go to that wonderful country”: Why we wanted to go there, what we think about Nigeria, what we know about it? And then the officer said, we better go back to Vienna to apply, here it is no business for him to treat our asses. We did not have money for bribes, so he only “could give” us visa for 7 days (in the form it said 1 month), which was ok with us anyway.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After this performance, Igor, Stefan and I went to ASTON, an artist living at the beginning of Haye Vive, the posh restaurant and boutique-area of Cotonou. We had passed the house several times, admiring the huge trash metal giraffe and guitar player on the roof. His phone number was written on the wall next to his door, so we had made an appointment with him for 2 p.m.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Aston was there, and he introduced us to his universe of finest trash: all walls, and even the ceiling were covered with artworks and installations. Out of a big box, he conjured up one installation after the other, like the “politichiens” -</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">politicians are like “chiens” (dogs), when they get their food, they don´t let anybody else to their bowl.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">His roof top terrace is covered with assorted trash, most of the work he is doing there. If he specialises in certain kinds of waste? “No, I am collecting everything”. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Aston is musician, so his favourite materials and topics are connected with music: a man made of headphones, guitar players and saxophone players made out of computer parts and small speakers… His “star”, however, are used toothbrushes: he is using them everywhere - as joints, feathers, whole environments… </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">We fell in love with some of his works and bought them for the exhibition.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">After a short meal, we called the trash artists we met at the voodoo festival in Ouidah. They told the zemidjan-driver how to get to their place.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">With our rich booty from Aston in our hands, and the “Alibert” (small mirrored bathroom cabinet) our colleague Markus Wilfling gave us for our truck´s “bathroom”, we were sitting on the mopeds and went high speed out of the city to the suburbs. Markus is collecting “Aliberts” and uses them for his artwork. He bought us one, and we had to promise to stage a “voodoo”-ceremony with it. The artists with their voodoo masks were the right address to do this.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">They picked us up on the main street and brought us to their house. On the way, they had a huge trash sculpture in the public space. We got a warm welcome, some “Sodabi” (local spirits), and I was dizzy immediately. After explaining our “Alibert”-project, they brought their masks and candles, Igor brought the stag´s antlers, that our colleagues Markus and Max Gansberger gave us as talisman in order to find a good new place for it. After arranging masks, candles, and the “Jägermeister” (an Austrian spirit with antlers on the label), they started to play drums, and we joined them, drumming on different objects and chanting. All around in the neighbourhood people were singing, drumming, laughing, we started to dance, and Igor made the photos promised to Markus.</span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The artists explained their masks, and we chose to buy one containing a water bottle: it was made out of materials from a burned house, the water bottle means something like “drink out of the bottle and be ready to die”. It comes from the time of slavery – when it became too much for the slaves, they were “drinking out of the bottle”, and it gave them incredible strengths.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Before leaving, they made a protection ritual for us in their “Mami Wata” house shrine. Our travels will be safe.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-30883697091806962332010-01-14T17:15:00.000-08:002010-01-20T13:23:25.179-08:0010. 1. Voodoo Festival in Ouidah<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGiHHrJznN29XxQVP5_bEjPce-aS8Fh4hiuc5UnJJK65yTvSiTrxVumxq1czPP8JAVSkLcjeEcpjq3JM6s0OT_5kTecZ4ROY6aLegThhggQsgWmZG34UPPYeqrPyE07O_nAJbx0f65nD8/s1600-h/00_ouidah.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGiHHrJznN29XxQVP5_bEjPce-aS8Fh4hiuc5UnJJK65yTvSiTrxVumxq1czPP8JAVSkLcjeEcpjq3JM6s0OT_5kTecZ4ROY6aLegThhggQsgWmZG34UPPYeqrPyE07O_nAJbx0f65nD8/s320/00_ouidah.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428935172933973218" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYE4zBvT7fV8mbPhNdWfCGoYO4j2H4vmctKhLY_UzkHk-571cwQJiOX8kehMtuh4IZcbvinHBBTqF-dXwPcxGQhNweZ6EyxRkgy3u8U4cnAMYjKHx8zr017gjRlaxt5afXBpT-n4ELjfY/s1600-h/0_voodoomask01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYE4zBvT7fV8mbPhNdWfCGoYO4j2H4vmctKhLY_UzkHk-571cwQJiOX8kehMtuh4IZcbvinHBBTqF-dXwPcxGQhNweZ6EyxRkgy3u8U4cnAMYjKHx8zr017gjRlaxt5afXBpT-n4ELjfY/s320/0_voodoomask01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428935168399000818" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-bDzr8ZGJGwIy1__QLtTrn3IeFs2nknOQDwbOf_o2Fy8pkk3O8GNByR6E1yVqnucoNBMvrwXvocyX15HPzbxwITec9r_l_j_AK1NpT5YY2DWzF20QNGIJ_rGPx_emVGw0B6l7cQBF_k/s1600-h/0_voodoOuida7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-bDzr8ZGJGwIy1__QLtTrn3IeFs2nknOQDwbOf_o2Fy8pkk3O8GNByR6E1yVqnucoNBMvrwXvocyX15HPzbxwITec9r_l_j_AK1NpT5YY2DWzF20QNGIJ_rGPx_emVGw0B6l7cQBF_k/s320/0_voodoOuida7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428934492792319266" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyX7xBtomtFuC2PrdG3cFYJd4R2EddWVGUJoKZZyGyLtSIQMDsylr1OZI39Je8HXDJlypEz3gL4o1DbVN_wj6kY0HcMNIj8CXLQC0ShY-6mdNAaRhmuRBtTXhyphenhyphenrUpNBJma4ZGpbHuq7kE/s1600-h/0_voodoOuidah2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyX7xBtomtFuC2PrdG3cFYJd4R2EddWVGUJoKZZyGyLtSIQMDsylr1OZI39Je8HXDJlypEz3gL4o1DbVN_wj6kY0HcMNIj8CXLQC0ShY-6mdNAaRhmuRBtTXhyphenhyphenrUpNBJma4ZGpbHuq7kE/s320/0_voodoOuidah2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428934489261869762" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3da-iY8bgcv_acRBVVYI-YZM3HyLpjOpf4qzpSlH2HeTHNJjhe3i6FRzJC5XyzOzhPY6t8vrIEuGe454ob5sxgIAN3uaDg6-nlwn7rMNkENZZaLtd3qq7DVnr0_nV8RK2RWZPXh_3rk/s1600-h/0_voodoOuida2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3da-iY8bgcv_acRBVVYI-YZM3HyLpjOpf4qzpSlH2HeTHNJjhe3i6FRzJC5XyzOzhPY6t8vrIEuGe454ob5sxgIAN3uaDg6-nlwn7rMNkENZZaLtd3qq7DVnr0_nV8RK2RWZPXh_3rk/s320/0_voodoOuida2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428934486718904194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQq1o0Cy5Q66efPg0shdhe7A8lKtvT0bDXmHB1_74zgY_tyr5PoR5-e9YXQ9Y4IFDJDZVptj8d1djKGbgqrEvy4vkvulwW6vRRW49qQ4lQ1hdWrzfiYz-KtQt0h7vCPwSr9KLHMyPsKmE/s1600-h/0_voodoOuida1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQq1o0Cy5Q66efPg0shdhe7A8lKtvT0bDXmHB1_74zgY_tyr5PoR5-e9YXQ9Y4IFDJDZVptj8d1djKGbgqrEvy4vkvulwW6vRRW49qQ4lQ1hdWrzfiYz-KtQt0h7vCPwSr9KLHMyPsKmE/s320/0_voodoOuida1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428934483725607106" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">January 10th is the worldwide "Day of Voodoo", and there are festivals everywhere in the country. One big international voodoo festival is every year on a different place in Benin.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We went to Ouidah, a place on the beach where slaves used to be shipped abroad. There is a huge "Gate of no return".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Out of the car, we saw some wonderful voodoo masks made out of trash. They hung on the public toilet to be sold, and the artists were beside. We asked for their phone numbers and decided to visit them the next day in Cotonou. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-size:12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-69432599216189019002010-01-14T17:04:00.000-08:002010-02-06T16:01:26.234-08:009. 1. Voodoo Festival of the King of Allada<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2oTC90nf8CCVkUlS5yA9Y5T6g37F8Pi6MROmukCbKnvlcO4X9i6yo2jC48M-DxdTo0KYaC6unOXt5EWjySEycetIBYd7x182IlRjpEXeht4mvenf_W2jUXxuhhkFIbIYFl5FibQpJYaU/s1600-h/0voodoo09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2oTC90nf8CCVkUlS5yA9Y5T6g37F8Pi6MROmukCbKnvlcO4X9i6yo2jC48M-DxdTo0KYaC6unOXt5EWjySEycetIBYd7x182IlRjpEXeht4mvenf_W2jUXxuhhkFIbIYFl5FibQpJYaU/s320/0voodoo09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426766795122677202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsqDOQK7hO0cBAD7YtNY-Femom99VgPI2ny3COtlCIiY4JJbUIwhpmcrUaw6Z-gborlQBExoeLqaYj5gdcr661nzPpNPEgQuNKrvl7nVg7zx7w10ILGlk2kfLk8DgvM-ToLbFbZ6LHOM/s1600-h/0voodoo06.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsqDOQK7hO0cBAD7YtNY-Femom99VgPI2ny3COtlCIiY4JJbUIwhpmcrUaw6Z-gborlQBExoeLqaYj5gdcr661nzPpNPEgQuNKrvl7nVg7zx7w10ILGlk2kfLk8DgvM-ToLbFbZ6LHOM/s320/0voodoo06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426766788575914722" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>What would voodoo trash look like? We went to the annual big voodoo festival of the King of Alladah, a small village near Cotonou. This king is at the moment head of all Benin Kings, he is mostly living in Germany and studied at the Sorbonne.<div>The festival was ecstatic. After the official speaches, a woman took a chicken that was walking there to pick some corn, bit its neck and swallowed it slowly.</div><div>The feathers were collected carefully, we could only find one at the end of the festival. Joachim found a water sachet, saying "Jesus", but trash-wise this was no real success: everything was perfectly cleaned up.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-73374027624811278192010-01-14T16:00:00.000-08:002010-01-20T13:36:19.731-08:008. 1. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzMInTYrd0bhclXfNWsonRisC1t4A2nXt4Q8e-drJlFxK_Qk-iZYccxYiq1A-2in3_k1mqFDC3EKlO6xV0HNTGCz1iZO4qECEXa22BMY9ooM_lp6TUduasMpqHVL7AKtXfiJw-6VhKnQ/s320/0portnovo09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426750388321584658" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Starting early in the morning to find the big waste disposal site the German guy in the beach bar had talked about. We went out of Cotonou direction Porto Novo, the capital of Benin and looked for waste. There was only the usual amount of garbage around, no big deal. We could not find anything, and then we arrived in Porto Novo. What to do?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After a drink, we asked a zemidjan-driver, if there was aluminium-recycling here. We had heard before, that all the waste metal in Benin goes to Porto Novo for recycling. The zemidjan driver brought us to some small booths, where people offered the pots we knew so well for sale. This was not enough, so we asked for the city´s waste disposal site.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The zemidjan brought us to a small place in the middle of a residential area, with the sign saying, that the site belonged to the City of Porto Novo. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A school class with teacher was standing on the other side, and suddenly somebody started to burn the trash. All of a sudden, we were in the middle of smoke, and on a place nearby the same thing seemed to happen.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We went to the teacher to ask, what he was doing there, and he told, that he was educating the children about waste and hygiene: Waste should not be near the house but brought to a dump site and burned or buried. The teacher was talking, and the children listened carefully and wrote on their blackboards. Stefan made an interview, and we exchanged email-addresses.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The man who burned the waste was paid by the City of Porto Novo to care for the waste, burning is the usual practice. There were lots of houses and people living in the neighborhood.</span></div><div>Porto Novo has about 250.000 inhabitants, divided into districts. Each of them has their own dump site, but there was still too much waste on the streets: many people prefer to simply throw their waste out to the streets instead of bringing it to the dump site or paying the people who collect it with their carts and bring it there.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We found some nice dividends for our shareholders, one of it was a water bottle re-used for traditional medication. It has the package insert glued on it, typed with typewriter.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-25511854944787885262010-01-14T15:59:00.000-08:002010-02-05T09:15:07.829-08:00FOTOS t.o.y.s.-team<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnjcyl-kpA5GVGcD50etfJ48tMPDUxrHbPqUfdhv4wRG-FQQ8NMybBBNHhwLKDYr575ySSaWLS-1E-BqX_TXrI-owjBy3RWZ6VUtVxfvkM0PmF3HwcbsEbbSZjA9n5pEoREYNkww1lqg/s1600-h/port_depo_maryam1+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnjcyl-kpA5GVGcD50etfJ48tMPDUxrHbPqUfdhv4wRG-FQQ8NMybBBNHhwLKDYr575ySSaWLS-1E-BqX_TXrI-owjBy3RWZ6VUtVxfvkM0PmF3HwcbsEbbSZjA9n5pEoREYNkww1lqg/s400/port_depo_maryam1+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434682735894860546" border="0" /></a>maryam durchbricht die rauchmauer..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4RuxpBZ-Skdg2-VLCYtP74uw2A-qdW5wCC8wNIAUBzSYS4Lc5Ko9zjny9y6i_gK71FBNnr2wxKQsksLKWOqNilUs-x1eJ6hVIa2vpFbbTPYC4Dk2oRajLO0OPyQxrtv-mGXAPOoksaE/s1600-h/port_depo_stefan1+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4RuxpBZ-Skdg2-VLCYtP74uw2A-qdW5wCC8wNIAUBzSYS4Lc5Ko9zjny9y6i_gK71FBNnr2wxKQsksLKWOqNilUs-x1eJ6hVIa2vpFbbTPYC4Dk2oRajLO0OPyQxrtv-mGXAPOoksaE/s400/port_depo_stefan1+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434682738683758930" border="0" /></a>voller einsatz mit material und körper<br />stefan hat wieder sicht..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtG_PF48izctW_8zGm11RdQOoi3n4dFbh_rCqMBAMGkHunFali41JHGWyRhWe_IE28_wSEnQsxEkS1fBXpzSehwToIOMbd4vUR-LU4KfreqKRH9H_sY_TsjtSFgeaycgNVLwHr3S9p_Wo/s1600-h/port_depo_maryam2+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtG_PF48izctW_8zGm11RdQOoi3n4dFbh_rCqMBAMGkHunFali41JHGWyRhWe_IE28_wSEnQsxEkS1fBXpzSehwToIOMbd4vUR-LU4KfreqKRH9H_sY_TsjtSFgeaycgNVLwHr3S9p_Wo/s400/port_depo_maryam2+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434682731313090402" border="0" /></a>die beste position zum fotografieren ist nicht die gesündeste..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvMHRDvU9R-0XCSi3-mGFgj9SinV8nIyqPgmyGBYQgCm13C2T82_wHdjXl3M8P0MbWbnZ9kOSZuBF6WDROgQk-boRBtWb59usaiBC1ch51t39hsnRf_4MRHUoLNbNj4zZQcLonoYZ42U/s1600-h/port_depo_gruppe1+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvMHRDvU9R-0XCSi3-mGFgj9SinV8nIyqPgmyGBYQgCm13C2T82_wHdjXl3M8P0MbWbnZ9kOSZuBF6WDROgQk-boRBtWb59usaiBC1ch51t39hsnRf_4MRHUoLNbNj4zZQcLonoYZ42U/s400/port_depo_gruppe1+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434682728039176194" border="0" /></a>t.o.y.s. on tour TEAM: stefan, maryam, igore, eva, joachim, manueligorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035821557009857028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340092928080259415.post-65705265586459811322010-01-14T15:57:00.000-08:002010-02-05T09:04:23.566-08:00FOTOSTORY - burntrash and the childs of porto novo -<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IXLeU4w5-Nh07k1rYxCc1JSuHHatrsXSHu-ijzyo0WJGH79EoJNEoEWgoLeKoZ6xegSyXFGpPsz7v9eXt9DEC9tl1A7v9y3sRuXNhSiG1GvTWJCj8USjlqtBdP96wv3oQaA1CUiXP30/s1600-h/port_depo1+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IXLeU4w5-Nh07k1rYxCc1JSuHHatrsXSHu-ijzyo0WJGH79EoJNEoEWgoLeKoZ6xegSyXFGpPsz7v9eXt9DEC9tl1A7v9y3sRuXNhSiG1GvTWJCj8USjlqtBdP96wv3oQaA1CUiXP30/s400/port_depo1+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676806769569954" border="0" /></a>our simidjan-guide broght us to the right place:<br />the official dump site of a district of porto-novo / benin<br />(sheeps and goats, our old trashy friends.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4safNyGJOXN-crKGjmog9HDFDMu1WggoOEvvsOFkktFKXtHuz8o_z-Zi8SBbHIIXiXexlRFGfq1cvf4WwvxQWBo4fFK9NxTtKcsm7S_W_rh1KpzQGckM3xsUfVOWgOGVcaUOFvKRP9Wg/s1600-h/port_depo_port1+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4safNyGJOXN-crKGjmog9HDFDMu1WggoOEvvsOFkktFKXtHuz8o_z-Zi8SBbHIIXiXexlRFGfq1cvf4WwvxQWBo4fFK9NxTtKcsm7S_W_rh1KpzQGckM3xsUfVOWgOGVcaUOFvKRP9Wg/s400/port_depo_port1+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676798650278610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhVLRBDTZOGsPs6YltG7wLZ5vFMcHMl_uI4HpzfbCXIr4PXIjkY2IYA7jOM0roAEdBwB7ljeP-vwMIKMf9P-BbHIvm4_qPk0-4NsnFn4J-2QTg1E5HmYt2gHoq33y2HR4XBXeTyrkrEk/s1600-h/port_depo_port2+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhVLRBDTZOGsPs6YltG7wLZ5vFMcHMl_uI4HpzfbCXIr4PXIjkY2IYA7jOM0roAEdBwB7ljeP-vwMIKMf9P-BbHIvm4_qPk0-4NsnFn4J-2QTg1E5HmYt2gHoq33y2HR4XBXeTyrkrEk/s400/port_depo_port2+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676797091741090" border="0" /></a>children pass by with short disturbance of everydays air pollution..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2emJqFZ59DDmSPweWT7wmUqCjlApyqDdTo3mL7il0RbCuPotDps_n9GLMOjZ8Ou0goT_7eANbYe_5Ph3Lj2YIYPhNoRZwbCcGtDnRND_0_CV_KMQEL_9LIzU0pbvT9gG9SUmm8HmdQI/s1600-h/port_depo3+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2emJqFZ59DDmSPweWT7wmUqCjlApyqDdTo3mL7il0RbCuPotDps_n9GLMOjZ8Ou0goT_7eANbYe_5Ph3Lj2YIYPhNoRZwbCcGtDnRND_0_CV_KMQEL_9LIzU0pbvT9gG9SUmm8HmdQI/s400/port_depo3+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676434702238034" border="0" /></a>ibrahim - lives as a neighbour and gardian of the dump site. he regularly burnes the waste down, no matter what it contains..<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieS_ue7ttihToznhz-3CrnGrhQcgu-wkJ7_GjVEggfwQl1vOM1-py1I1s4qHubogx9S0Iny6-jQh_U85qy_3nGDiuMm0CgJ-_NHV0LPMPDJfclvQ3DNEt4CPyp9CFbByuqnfU5zMnACYI/s1600-h/port_det1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieS_ue7ttihToznhz-3CrnGrhQcgu-wkJ7_GjVEggfwQl1vOM1-py1I1s4qHubogx9S0Iny6-jQh_U85qy_3nGDiuMm0CgJ-_NHV0LPMPDJfclvQ3DNEt4CPyp9CFbByuqnfU5zMnACYI/s400/port_det1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434800681596319154" border="0" /></a>"it´s my job to clean up this area and before the pest comes to us, i burn it down, whatever it is.."<br /><div style="text-align: right;">ibrahim, 52.<br />(is there any connnection between voodoo and waste, i ask myself once again)<br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcOsRqn4SzesXp_k0a6NPvA9Sc7jNMsFWFS-YiGQUwK0zP-FFFmULgjVReJReAk0egGRj_svefKFnPAhPiyfoZthHIlSTUAtxNVhZFAfvPxJurzx1e35m7069gUG4n7AChxEGrPy-Aj0/s1600-h/port_depo4+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcOsRqn4SzesXp_k0a6NPvA9Sc7jNMsFWFS-YiGQUwK0zP-FFFmULgjVReJReAk0egGRj_svefKFnPAhPiyfoZthHIlSTUAtxNVhZFAfvPxJurzx1e35m7069gUG4n7AChxEGrPy-Aj0/s400/port_depo4+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676429008967394" border="0" /></a>wastefire vs. burntrash in the palm grove..<br /><br />..meanwhile..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4jSrO0IfPz6_Xec03HR55nIb7vAmt0vILfij03incHq7QnrBsYzgfQ5cDSRDtS1q-5KkEML8d-CTbO_OIN5gcGKkyLmUCKsxmSRCdHIxAvy5G1ToZ5Qw6PSjpkxbPGMQ0nqz5oElK34/s1600-h/port_depo2+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4jSrO0IfPz6_Xec03HR55nIb7vAmt0vILfij03incHq7QnrBsYzgfQ5cDSRDtS1q-5KkEML8d-CTbO_OIN5gcGKkyLmUCKsxmSRCdHIxAvy5G1ToZ5Qw6PSjpkxbPGMQ0nqz5oElK34/s400/port_depo2+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676428219051474" border="0" /></a>..a schoolclass in the background is learning about botany, ecology, sustainability, and how not to deal with waste..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU65hOvbiv3iDF43am18_ryOtI16DpTy5eVpuIsia-VOxx9RykBc5x1siz-kVQ2Y5-9hBSY1MyhnE3wDuPDuKBOAnm2N5IHk7XuvEeSf069WSSTzxV0jXBbD5nuxxKMSpXH_don9Zd_yU/s1600-h/port_depo6+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU65hOvbiv3iDF43am18_ryOtI16DpTy5eVpuIsia-VOxx9RykBc5x1siz-kVQ2Y5-9hBSY1MyhnE3wDuPDuKBOAnm2N5IHk7XuvEeSf069WSSTzxV0jXBbD5nuxxKMSpXH_don9Zd_yU/s400/port_depo6+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676421041539714" border="0" /></a>"don´t burn trash!"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRc9pKdC_hIsT4do0IMGunoDCCk8xj7EYjl3PrG9PslByY1uMs5kYqz8Kb94m-1o8c_LqVGhMhzvig86mw07NjuMDybbAD-65MHWPCKCxtfeAv6CBOktFw8TVdSPMnsx8iQmERmQZKSeE/s1600-h/port_depo7+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRc9pKdC_hIsT4do0IMGunoDCCk8xj7EYjl3PrG9PslByY1uMs5kYqz8Kb94m-1o8c_LqVGhMhzvig86mw07NjuMDybbAD-65MHWPCKCxtfeAv6CBOktFw8TVdSPMnsx8iQmERmQZKSeE/s400/port_depo7+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676417910413106" border="0" /></a>"the air pollution harms you and all the people around you!" underlines the teacher.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbzVE8Mm3PbkplyYV_QYYbWAg3Er9aLHiDqSq4_Rl3C8wNHOLAlYRbGnzECXzzOMKr6qMHPYNqfJNXIhhNoP3sKLLjumsLF0d8Ry37c9mfrEMivLZMSL8ckRaCJdki2EkUuPU354LLgY/s1600-h/port_depo5+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvbzVE8Mm3PbkplyYV_QYYbWAg3Er9aLHiDqSq4_Rl3C8wNHOLAlYRbGnzECXzzOMKr6qMHPYNqfJNXIhhNoP3sKLLjumsLF0d8Ry37c9mfrEMivLZMSL8ckRaCJdki2EkUuPU354LLgY/s400/port_depo5+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676053040963826" border="0" /></a>but they burn..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghz_FO8Xx1TLBmrkOj-aSHcZeCswB2dyql-cojl2qwdBIJ0TSYXa4vAlpGVGqXAf180eHWUIX-7Lqf69CD4Nm9Ewb_rT1AGYJ3tRN8w3TO7fuLJEmJLpltUQH6l-GszjhabrNI17BS3ik/s1600-h/port_depo9+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghz_FO8Xx1TLBmrkOj-aSHcZeCswB2dyql-cojl2qwdBIJ0TSYXa4vAlpGVGqXAf180eHWUIX-7Lqf69CD4Nm9Ewb_rT1AGYJ3tRN8w3TO7fuLJEmJLpltUQH6l-GszjhabrNI17BS3ik/s400/port_depo9+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676047780645058" border="0" /></a>..and burn..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcat-RcqOFtXno6dlU8s4lvvJBMJ4VqIjusQq7txKlKIr83kFFPufb0VhXmIjtYeeGR8aH_2H4Km-KvabZfG6Smhd8WGZm1iFdLr0sxJ6yU-m8PMtutJIc7ntxUdOepJJuaBqZIHzP4cU/s1600-h/port_depo10+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcat-RcqOFtXno6dlU8s4lvvJBMJ4VqIjusQq7txKlKIr83kFFPufb0VhXmIjtYeeGR8aH_2H4Km-KvabZfG6Smhd8WGZm1iFdLr0sxJ6yU-m8PMtutJIc7ntxUdOepJJuaBqZIHzP4cU/s400/port_depo10+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676044468139026" border="0" /></a>..and burn all the waste, not knowing about the value and the toxic of it..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGHEvVUU2Pz2Q9F8OAR2CLpeyP8-qkTP-LyXLIiT5PzQ-C5d94VwsgPIUqpkww0UyP6hMSrDFXu8Wu5kYJqhM9mxBe9LDmNhA-fJ2175c5nD1iY1qHntbNri_PtKKk6RMdZg-Ta5VU0k/s1600-h/port_depo11+Kopie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGHEvVUU2Pz2Q9F8OAR2CLpeyP8-qkTP-LyXLIiT5PzQ-C5d94VwsgPIUqpkww0UyP6hMSrDFXu8Wu5kYJqhM9mxBe9LDmNhA-fJ2175c5nD1iY1qHntbNri_PtKKk6RMdZg-Ta5VU0k/s400/port_depo11+Kopie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434676042050351522" border="0" /></a>ibrahim is going home to watch his granddoughter<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>playing with plastik toys from china.<br />..till the job is finished and the waste gone with the wind.<br /><br /><br /><br />but:<br /><br />there are a lot of possibilities to make jobs, make money, make sustainable developments for the society - out of trash of your society. the lack of information transFair to these people is leaving them not knowing better. the lack of financial transFair is not even offering alternatives.<br />we where the first speaking with this people about the global value of waste.<br />so there is a lot of potential for <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">T.O.Y.S. company limited by waste</span> to develope an ongoing global business with<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> secondary raw material from africa.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /></span></span>our sustainable <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">trash stocks</span> are still available.<br />invest in global fairness for global waste.<br /><br />for the better future..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvL9_3nWM2KC3LxwHLE5AfmoqQ1InipTF6iTsNpP5D97j41ROyU_4hmz80X9rnyD9h9-nq78fIaLZgVssImU-4b-dn6dvVqyyHXQSRkbtODV2PXdqen3YfE-6N4mFGED57X0rI7hMWJks/s1600-h/port_kid2_kl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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