Thatta Kedona

Culture is a Basic Need

A little about ourselves DGFK-AFA Thatta Kedona

On the occasion of the turn of the century

by Aaron Pinsker and Norbert Pintsch

The DGFK was founded almost fifty years ago. The practical engagement with cultures was implemented in many projects according to a model which used and demonstrated the various interdependencies in culture.

Projects emerged through initiatives, collaborations and activities, initially in Central Europe and after 1990 increasingly in other countries.

From around 2010, we started to collect results and examples into our own (DGFK) archive and assigned them to topics such as interviews, sounds, movies, slide shows, animations, books, posters, etc.

The year 2000 is a turning point in the DGFK, because at the end of 1999 analogue printing of the DGFK newsletter as well as of Indus-River, Sanaga Rivière, Rio Magdalena and Hekla was discontinued.

The reason for this was increasing digitization of media. This also led to increasing depth of the digital information, so that the DGFK established its own website, sponsored by a company, because one of our projects showed pilot character at the EXPO2000 show.

An eShop was installed for selling certain handicraft products from the projects, but ultimately it was abandoned as it did not appear to be suitable for the individually unique items.

In similar manner some websites were also removed because they were no longer necessary or technically obsolete (for example Internet radio projects). But they are stored in the archive and available to interested quarters.

The partner initiatives had their own websites, which were supplemented early on by flexible blogs:

Pakistan: 

www.thattakedona.com 

www.thattakedona.blogspot.com 

Kamerun:

www.camcatbam.com 

www.haatc.blogspot.com

Kolumbien:

www.tanto-mejor.com 

www.elcampomirando.blogspot.com 

Other project partners, some of them no longer active, are: 

www.dolls-project.com (Groenland), 

www.royalglobage.com (UAE), 

ac-criti-project.com (Griechenland), 

www.id-museum.com (Island).

With the help of DGFK, partner societies in other project countries were established, such as: 

www.sparc-project.blogspot.com (Pakistan),

www.spocabangladesh.blosspot.com (BanglaDesh),

www.spaetcolombia.blogspot.com (Kolumbien),

www.spathcameroon.blogspot.com (Kamerun), 

www.spaetcolombia.blogspot.com (Kolumbien), 

www.sutolsrilanka.blogspot.com (SriLanka), 

www.sodshnepal.blogspot.com (Nepal), 

www.semoliceland.blogspot.com (Island), 

www.spokupolonia.blogspot.com (Polen).

In the course of time, a plethora of active participants, supporters and partners entered into the projects and their names are duly collected in the DGFK archive or can be found in search engines: 

www.dgfk.info

If a name (for example (Karola Groch,Werner Schroeder, Monika Kuppler, Renate Perner,Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmitt, u.a.)) is associated with a certain activity or a certain support organization, e.g. the SES, it can be found there too.

Some friends of the DGFK have separated and put their work in the context of a company or organization (e.g. Fronzeck, Heckes, Klapper, Polzer, Sauter, Christ, Borgmann, Stober) or chosen an art platform for their efforts. We do have one person, who has selflessly devoted all her energy and efforts towards the benefit of the general public around the globe (Siller).

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AFA and OPWA linkage - MOU

Anjman Falah e Aama (AFA), Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka, Okara signed a Memorandum of Understanding with M/S Okara Patients Welfare Association (OPWA), Okara on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at Okara as a part of patients welfare in every way possible. Senior administration of  OPWA, Amjad Ali and Dr Norbert Pintsch were present at the signing ceremony. 


Strong linkage between AFA and local like minded concerns is a critical tool to tackle the key challenges in rural Punjab. OPWA’s experience and expertise will go a long way in creating awareness about the prevention of diseases and improving the lives of people in the area.

This MOU should lead to increased, diversified set of activities for both the parties involved.


On this occasion, OPWA shield was also presented to Dr Norbert Pintsch. 

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HECHT ART CATALOG



Friends of Thatta Kedona and residents of Dolls Village are very well familiar with Peter Hecht - an artist who was in the village in March and April 2019. Morals he helped create in the village are still there (also can be seen here). Detailed report about Hecht Art can be viewed here.

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