Africa - Aid / Culture

Have unique encounters with people, culture and wildlife. Join in creative fundraising and create vital development for schools, agriculture, tourism and sports in Africa.

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"If you want to understand poverty, you must understand wealth"

On the Africa line you get up close and personal meetings in a warm and inclusive culture. You learn about a number of African countries through informative study tours, lectures, documentaries, discussions and films. We create African food and you learn to speak SwahiliAt the same time, we look at our own society and consumption. What can we learn from each other?

100% assistance

Throughout the year we actively work with creative fundraising and collection. 100% of the money we collect goes to our projects. This is quite unique.

You gain insight into wise use of resources to avoid abuse and corruption. The class is involved in deciding how the money will be spent and you get to see the result on study trips.

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We are "friend in everyday life» for the elderly in Elverum, young refugees help with inclusion in the local community, arranges activity days for hundreds of elementary school students, has aid marathons, pledge drives, Christmas games, different Christmas gifts and letters of support to name a few ways to fill the aid account.

On a study trip

You get to work on giving orphans and poor children a good and safe school offer in Kasese and Bwera in Uganda. You get experience the slum, photograph elephants, crocodiles, hippos, lions, buffalo and a multitude of antelopes on safari. It will be a tour of a wonderfully populous and lush country – among archaeologists called the "cradle of mankind".

On the exotic, Muslim island of Lamu in Kenya – where cars have been replaced by donkeys – you can sail on the local dhows at sunset, fish and experience a beautiful "hakuna matata" culture. It will be good. encounters with the everyday lives of Muslims at a completely different pace than we are used to here at home.

Themes for the year

Developing Rwenzori Elverum Education Center
Lecture on volunteer work and humanitarian organizations
safari
Good assistance
Friend in everyday life
Inclusion of refugees
Swahili culture
Active for Other aid races
Mortgage project
Café operation
Christmas gift card
Terrorism, apartheid and racial hatred
African song, dance, food and film
Cabin trips for joint planning

Study trips with the African line

Uganda

We start with a slum visit in Kisinjy in the capital Kampala before traveling west to Kasese - where we have our aid project REECThere we visit and take part in daily life at the schools, the football facility and the new agricultural project that is now underway.

There will be a safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park where hippos, crocodiles, lions and leopards appear very often. We also visit the border market between Congo and Uganda which is a chaos of impressions.

Kenya

On the second big trip, we fly to Nairobi and on to the exotic, Muslim and not least car-free island of Lamu in the Indian Ocean. You experience East Africa with slums, beautiful nature, wild animals and exciting Swahili culture! Sunset sailing, trip to Lamu Town, Matandoni and swimming in 26 degree sea water with turtles, dolphins and beautiful corals.

Cooking, henna painting and charming people of all ages.

Utoya

On Utøya, you will get close to the stories of victims and survivors after the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011. You will also see the wonderful way we have taken back the island with life, joy and basic democratic values.

Oslo

We go to Oslo to visit the Rose Castle. This exhibition at Frognerseteren is a tribute to our democracy and a reminder of the Second World War in Norway. You will also join the Nobel Peace Center and the new main hall of Deichmanske Bibliotek.