Update on “KiGa 3” – Vaterstetten’s third kindergarten in Alem Katema

Finally the time has come, the building authority of the municipality in Alem Katema has granted the building permit for our third kindergarten, the local partnership secretary, Abebaw Birhanu,…

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Alem Katema has a new mayor

Our Ethiopian twin town has a new mayor: Since the beginning of March, the mayor of our African twin community is Atilabachew Fekele, who has already held this office…

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New Partnership Secretary in Alem Katema

Important personnel decisions in Alem Katema: Desalegn Wondimneh, secretary of the partnership since 2014, reached the Ethiopian retirement age of 60 at the end of October 2021. For three…

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KG3: Alem Katema promises its share

Alem Katema wants to collect the equivalent of 14,000 € for the 3rd kindergarten. The first fundraising campaign in Ethiopia since the partnership was founded shows how important the…

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Four ultrasound machines arrived

The partnership association can do more than just kindergarten: At the beginning of the year, an ultrasound machine arrived at the ENAT Hospital in Alem Katema, the…

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A Christmas donation for our kindergarten in Ethiopia

The municipality of Vaterstetten, represented by the First Mayor Leonhard Spitzauer and the members of the municipal council, donated 4,000 euros for the construction of a kindergarten in their…

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30.000 € from Karlheinz-Böhm-School

250.000 € is going to cost the next project of the partnership association in Ethiopia: about 200.000 € for the construction of the 3rd kindergarten – the rest for…

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Acquire a Brick-Certificate

Spitzauer did it, Wirnitzer did it – and many, many other Vaterstetten residents have done it too: buying one or more brick certificates to finance the construction of our…

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Board elections 2021: Old staff – new élan

With the old team into a new future – what often seems impossible in politics, the partnership association will now implement. At the belated new elections on October 9…

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“The world´s best coffee”

When Florian Hammerstein talks about his wild coffee from Kaffa, it quickly becomes clear: someone has found his passion here. For over 15 years, the business graduate from Freiburg…

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