Helping people to help themselves! That’s the intention of “Project Senegal”. A project that was initiated last year from our club members Michel Langhammer, Philipp Gaska and Marco Di Mola. These guys travelled on their own expenses to their Senegalese friend Tierno Niang to Dakar and connected themselves with the NGO “Africultururban” and the university UCAD which is owned by the government. The goal was, alongside with the networking process itself, to bring the open-source mentality to Senegal. Because of the new connections it was possible for our team to hold workshops for several days in which 8 interested participants have learned to build solar powered energy systems that generate electricity for small electronic devices. The concept has totally worked out. Already on the second day of the workshop, participants have brought other interested people with them and passed their new knowledge on to them. “The journey was a complete success. The workshop has perfectly worked out, we transmitted our knowledge and took back many impressions”, said Michel. You can read a more detailed report on the following link.
die-lupe.userblogs.uni-hamburg.de/vortrag/…gshilfe/
We have already planned following projects! There will be another journey to Dakar in November 2018 in order to further the workshop concept and to establish “Open Hardware” as a sustainable and long-lasting development aid in Africa.
We are looking forward to your support that will assist us financially for the second journey to Dakar. You have the opportunity to donate for this freetrack. “Desert Nomad” was composed solely for the “Project Senegal” and was made from the talented producer Katabtu from Karlsruhe. Yannick Hug (his real name) was immediately enthusiastic about the social projects from our collective and we are excited that we have won him over to our club. We are curiously looking forward what kind of magic Katabtu will perform in the future and we hope that this track will make you as happy as it made us.
Katabtu:
katabtu.bandcamp.com
@katabtu
www.facebook.com/Katabtumusic/
