We are pleased to report that Camp Group is active now in yet another region of the world. Founder, Professor Dr Heather Cameron and Daniel Meehan from Camp Group are consultants in Kabul, Afghanistan for the German Association for International Cooperation (GIZ). They will conduct workshops regarding the effective use of sports in the primary school curriculum. Particularly, the inclusion of girls in PE classes is a main focus. In Afghanistan, boys and girls attend school separately, which gives girls the chance to work out and to move freely within the safe environment of sports at school, unlike the reality of everyday life in Afghanistan.
The GIZ’s special branch for sports and development is a partner of Camp Group in this project, as is the ministry of education in Kabul.
The next trip to the Middle East is due soon and this time, concrete sports and movement units in the form of ball instructive elements and concepts regarding playing and handling a ball will be the focus.
The main aim of Camp Group’s work in Kabul will be to strengthen the respective schools, help in developing up-to-date educational approaches and curricula as well as support the cause of including girls and women in the schools’ systems.
The team will be equipped with a variety of basketball, handball, volleyball and further ball games and drills. Easy, playful, effective techniques on instructing sports courses for girls will passed on to teachers in Afghanistan.
In addition to that, videos, interviews, and group discussions will promote the exchange and dialogue among the Afghani Ministry of Education, the GIZ and CampGroup. The footage will also contribute to the final evaluation of the workshops.
As for future plans, Camp Group is creating project ideas that include working together with refugees, specifically Afghani refugees, in creating digitalized extracurricular projects, that can be implemented in their countries of origin as well as in Germany. This was one of the project ideas that Camp Group applied to the Google Impact Challenge Berlin with.
It is one of our organisational goals to provide services through the medium of digital technologies and Apps that can be used by individuals who do not necessarily live in the direct regions where we work. We are very enthusiastic about these and other project ideas with which we will be able to reach out to further groups of people and individuals.

Berlin-Summer, sunshine und in addition to that some wonderful games by the Neukölln-playmobil

Today, three classes met at the Peter-Peterson-primary school together with our city council for health and youth and the vice district mayor Falko Liecke, the playmobil-team and the RespAct-team on the Schierkerplatz in Neukölln.

Last october, the Peter-Peterson-primary school expressed the wish for more offers on the neighboring playgrounds. The children often felt uneasy, because of older kids taking over the playgrounds and the latters not really being of any use in that case.

Our city council took care of this concern and took it seriously. Through support of the youth welfare service of Neukölln, the Schierker-playground is now one among 4 playgrounds, which are being visited by the playmobil once a week and are being provided with wonderful and active offers. Every tuesday evening, kids in Körnerkiez get to try out creative and active games between 15 and 18 o’clock.

We had a wonderful morning. Thanks to Mr. Liecke and the playmobil-Team for the beautiful prelude event.

Strong children. Strong democracy. We let children speak up!

 

Posted on the 15th of july 2015 by Melanie Marahrens

We took part at the summer festival of the Ganztagsschule St.Pauli. We already had carried out project-weeks there and were guests with our two summits in the past. Together with many other activities, such as pony-riding and throwing cans, children were able to try out focus mitt-exercising with us.

Many students of the school, together with their siblings and friends, found their way to us. At the beginning, we had only boys, but eventually many girls were enthusiastic. Especially younger siblings, who have not beein going to school yet, surprised us with how great they mastered their trials with the boxing gloves.

Guests, parents and teachers were able to get informed about our project RespAct, as well as about the ideas of the project-week and the summit, that took place in the last schoolyear. Guests were impressed by the great ideas that fourth-graders had.