New projectsin Eritrea

An initiative of pilotraum01 e.V. together with the societies WINTA-era e.V., Water Foundation and Human-Plus e.V.

medicine, water, art and culture

Eritrea, a country situated at the Horn of Africa, stands at the centre of our transdisciplinary initiative aimed at opening up new paths toward a self-determined, socio-culturally aligned development process.

Our aim is to strengthen the social infrastructure and cultural identity of a relatively young country that became independent from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war. A team of Eritrean and German partners worked on a concept that is based on an active engagement with the realities in Eritrea, the living conditions of its people and its environ-ment.

Together, these different pieces form a mosaic that should evolve into a sustainable commitment to be addressed and connected as a whole.

One precondition to further a suc-cessful cooperation model in Eritrea is the establishment of the interaction between many different initiatives, be it creative/art, technical, medical or environmental. Such a transdisciplinary dialogue is a promising start for a more complex understanding of the Eritrean people and of the dependencies bet-ween nature, health and culture.

A more complex perception also fos-ters new paths to solve existential challenges such as water supply, envi-ronmental pollution and hygiene in the sense of raising awareness among the Eritrean people. This also pertains to the active involvement of German-Erit-rean trained specialists to improve the efficiency of the much needed know-how, education and vocational training.

We aim at implementing our projects and goals as a trusting, long-term co-operation with local Eritreans with par-ticular emphasis on incorporating their very own cultural and social values and visions.

This can be achieved through deve-loping our projects and testing their feasibility together with our Eritrean partners. The Eritrean expatriate com-munity is an authentic intermediary and an essential link for our interactions with the Eritrean people at site and they guarantee the sustainable success oft he projects.

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The spacious area surrounding the Orotta Clinic is the site for cooperation between German and Eritrean medical, technical, communications, environmen-tal, art and design experts focusing on the gynaecology department.

It is our goal to make the interrelation-ships between environmental problems, hygiene and avoidable infectious disea-ses transparent.

In the context of already existing initiati-ves in Eritrea from German development organizations such as Archemed-Doc-tors for Children in Need e.V. and Ham-mer Forum-Help for Children in Areas of Conflict e.V., we want to focus our initiati-ve on the following areas:

_Education and further training of Eritrean doc-

tors focusing on gynaecology, obstetrics and

anaesthetics.

_Education and further training of medical per-

sonnel

_Awareness and improvement of educational

possibilities by using modern communication

methods (textbooks, IT, Internet/telemedicine)

_Awareness and improvement of the information

infrastructure to prevent diseases

_Support and improvement of hygienic condi-

tions and water supply in the medical facilities in

Asmara

_Education and further training of technicians for

maintaining and repairing medical devices and

hardware

_Content-based extensions of waiting areas for

family members and dependants of patients, for

children and for clinic personnel, such as alterna-

tive acoustic and visual guidance and education

systems

_Restoration of the laundry

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Responsible contact persons in Eritrea

Dr.med.Habteab Mehari,MD

Director National Referral Hospitals ( MOH)

Dr.med.G.Ogbaselassie (FRCOG)

Medical Director

Graduate Medical Education Orotta School of

Medicine

Tadesse Mehari ( PhD)

Executive Director, (NBHE)

National Board for Higher Education

Prof.Dr.med.Waltraud Elsholz

Head of the Department of Anaesthesia Asmara

College of Health Sciences

Art and Culture

The goal of our bilateral activities is to make an inter-generational contribution to the cultural development of Eritrea and to its external perception.

The involvement of artists and art strate-gies in our initiative is essential because it underlines the ambition to formulate the interrelationships between socie-ty, environment and health on different levels of perception, making those trans-parent.

Integrative private initiatives, measures to create and endow values and the encou-ragement of an awareness of its own his-tory are an essential part of our projects. These projects are designed and carried out conjointly.

Radio features

by Kalle Laar

_Rapprochement toward Eritrea‘s modern

history through its musical expression. Mu-

sic accompanies the daily lives of Eritreans.

In particular, its history of independence is

being mirrored in it.

_Ethio Jazz is very popular among music

experts outside the mainstream, but is only

associated with Ethiopia. Some musicians

of this school of music are from Eritrea.

Both aspects are being complemented by

contemporary music from Eritrea.

_Interview with the older generation in

Eritrea: Oral history. The history of Eritrea

from colony to independence.

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My Eritrea

by Empfangshalle (Corbinian Böhm and Mi-

chael Gruber) and Thomas Adebahr

_Development of a TV format in cooperation

with Eritrean editors, actors and the Eritrean

population at large. Designed as a pilot, the

show would ideally establish itself as a local

Eritrean TV programme and could continue

to be produced by local filmmakers. It is

also planned to carry out movie screenings

in the countryside.

_’Documentary fiction’ informs the Eritrean

public about our interdisciplinary projects

and illustrates opportunities for artistic and

playful own-initiatives. The movie concept is

comprised of a mixture of facts and fiction

and aims at a cultural implementation of our

initiative. Eritrea itself is the protagonist.

Watersupply

Access to clean drinking water is a dai-ly challenge for the rural population in Eritrea.

Especially women and younger girls spend a majority of their time walking long distances in order to fetch relatively small volumes of drinking water.

Between November and April, thick wafts of fog from the Red Sea overlay the country up to the mountains every day for several hours.

By using a simple and practical techno-logy of ‘fog collectors’, the mineral-rich fog has become an alternative water source to the irregular and less yielding rain. Already existing fog collectors yiel-ded 140-240 litres of water per 40 m2 net and day.

As part of our search for new solutions to functionally and economically impro-ve the fog collectors, art initiatives and projects will be embedded. The goal is to involve the local population when imple-menting the project and to simultaneous-ly spread the knowledge regarding the function and use of fog collectors to the public.

_Further development of fog collectors,

with special attention to local conditions

_Elaborate research on actual conditions:

who needs water and when? Which quality

should the water have and for which purpo-

ses?

_Education and further training with re-

gards to the use of the collected water

(small gardens, drip irrigation)

_Searching for competitions with the aim to

connect and complement different projects,

e.g. use of eucalyptus trees as construction

material for fog collectors. The harvested

eucalyptus trees will be replaced by ano-

ther tree.

_The production of fog collectors should

take place in the countryside as much as

possible. Ideal would be a construction

from material with synthetic fibre yarn for

further processing in Eritrea.

_Reduction of the net size so that it can be

used by smaller households or a smaller

group of several persons. As part of this,

cooperation with schools should be encou-

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Responsible contact persons in Eritrea

Ato Yemane Abay

Head of Economical Development

Zoba Maekel Administration

 

Mussie Fessehaye

Technical Assistant

Zoba Maekel Adinistration.

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How you can assist our initiative with a tax-deductible donation

Contact

pilotraum01 e.V. www.pilotraum01.org

Responsible for the initiative Eritrea for pilotraum01 areCurators: Dr. phil. Serafine Lindemann und Dr. phil. Christian SchoenMedicine: Dr. med. Ulf BauerArtist: Michael Gruber und Corbinian Böhm (Empfangshalle), Kalle Laar Industrial Design: Peter TrautweinGraphic Design: Jens LudewigFilm and Directing: Thomas AdebahrTechnology: Prof. Dr. Martin RichartzBusiness: Milana v. Ruffin

Winta- Eritrean Resources Association e.V. Engineer: Dr. Ing. Yohannes GhermayBusiness: Henok Kifle

Wasserstiftungwww.wasserstiftung.deCEO: Ernst FrostProject Manager: RA Kerstin AnkerMember of the foundation board inter alia: Senait Michiel

Human-Plus e.V. www.human-plus.orgCEO: Anestis loannidis

Human Plus e.V. Stichwort „Hilfe für Eritrea“ Deutsche Bank Mönchengladbach BLZ 31070024  Konto 619619001

pilotraum01 e.V. Stichwort „Eritrea“ Genossenschaftsbank eG München BLZ 70169464 Konto 616494

Winta-Eritrean Sparkasse Köln BonnResources Association e.V. BLZ 37050198  Konto 1900995711

pilotraum01 e.V. Dr. med. Ulf Bauer Dr. phil. Serafine Lindemann, Dr. phil. Christian Schoen

T. 0049 (0)89 988984 – info@pilotraum01.org - www.pilotraum01.org