German aid worker wins Afghan hearts
WECF network organisation Katachel highlighted in article on Radio Netherlands World Service (tekst in het Nederlands)
16.04.2008 | Hans de Vreij, Defence and Security Specialist, Radio Netherlands Worldservice
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Sybille Schnehage in Afghanistan
August 2010. All the property of the partner NGO Katachel in Afghanistan has been returned to the organisation after a local manager had tried to put them in his own name. The decision of the German inquiry is expected soon. WECF is glad that the situation has been clarified and that project work in the Kunduz rural areas can continue.
Information, 29 March 2010: Following the applicable internal procedures WECF has requested all the financial documents from Katachel e.V. every year after Katachel e.V. submitted them also for a review to an accredited financial auditor. The financial auditor concluded that there was no reason to think that the actual figures are not an accurate reflection of the activities and the work done by Katachel e.V. WECF therefore has no reason for discontinuing its cooperation with Katachel e.V. The situation in Afghanistan is currently very tense, as the former manager of Katachel e.V. is alleged to be responsible for a recent attack on Katachel staff, one who is badly wounded. WECF is waiting to hear from Katachel e.V. how activities can nevertheless be continued in 2010.
A German aid worker recently opened a school in rural north Afghanistan with financial support from the Netherlands. A grammar school no less. So that rural children also get the chance to go to university. Until recently that was unthinkable in this province and in this country, one of the poorest in the world. But Dr. Sybille Schnehage proves that nothing is impossible. She even does business with the local Taliban.
Twenty schools including a grammar school, 770 waterwells, 60 kilometre of roads and bridges, benefits for 300 widows and the building of 170 (mud) homes. These are a few of the humanitarian achievements of a remarkable German woman, who has been helping a rural community in the north Afghanistan province of Kunduz since 1994.
Dr. Sybille Schnehage is the key figure in a small private aid organisation: the Katachel humanitarian aid association, named after a town in Kunduz. In the area, a minority of Pashtun live, the same group which forms the majority in southern Afghanistan including Uruzgan and from which the Taliban movement comes.
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Met financiële steun uit Nederland heeft een Duitse hulpverleenster onlangs een school geopend op het platteland van Noord-Afghanistan. Een gymnasium wel te verstaan. Zodat ook plattelandskinderen de kans krijgen naar de universiteit te gaan. Tot voor kort ondenkbaar in deze provincie en in dit land, maar dr. Sybille Schnehage bewijst dat niets onmogelijk is. Zelfs met de lokale Taliban doet ze zaken.
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