Family Welfare Middle School Students in the Village
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka (Dolls’ Village) comes alive afresh when volunteers arrive there. Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Monika Kuppler and Marlis are in the village and so many things are happening simultaneously.
This has become a tradition that had students from different universities in Lahore (BNU, PU, UET, COMSAT, NCA, KC and PU) come to the village and show keen interest in local building constructions techniques, use of appropriate technology, village life and traditional rural culture and also interact with the villagers.
Read more »Labels: Farooq Ahmed, Farzana Zahoor, Marlis Bartkiewitz, Monika Kuppler, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Students, TGD, Volunteers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12:01 PM,
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Thatta Kedona-Perzada Cultural Complex Cooperation
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Thatta Kedona has a long-term cooperation with the Perzada Cultural Complex. Since many years, Thatta Kedona has been participating in the puppet festival in Gaddafi-Stadium with a special exhibition stand of ethnological dolls made by the AFA (NGO).
Puppeteers from Perzada Compex took part in the opening ceremony of the TTTC (Men-Centre) in 1997 in Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka. In 2010, three one-room houses made of traditional materials were constructed with the support of local universities for the purpose of research in connection with the mens’ project in TGD. In 2011, like previous year, a special event regarding appropriate technology was arranged for children. In 2012, the NGO AFA invited these children to a 3-school event, with school children from Lahore, Okara and TGD.
Similar to the children’s festival at PCC, a 3-school festival has again taken place in 2013 in Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka.
Long live Thatta Kedona-Perzada Cultural Complex cooperation.
Labels: AFA, FPAC, Marlis Bartkiewitz, Monika Kuppler, Peerzada Group, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller, SPARC, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:12 AM,
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Volunteers in TGD
Monday, October 21, 2013
Globally acclaimed work of AFA – NGO in Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka – would not have been possible if it was not for the army of volunteers interested in good work from promotion and preservation of rural culture to the uplift and development of women folk in a village situated in the backwaters of Punjab, Pakistan. This can be said with certainty that no other village in entire Pakistan has seen so many volunteers from home as well as abroad.
Whereas local guests and students come to Dolls Village all around the year but western volunteers mostly come in winters (economy and the climate has special impact on work), mostly in spring time and autumn.
This October Monika Kuppler is again in Women Art Centre for pottery project and Marlis for Basic Health Unit. At the same time, Tikedar Iqbal from Harappa and wife are working on repair work and construction of a new kiln. Dr Norbert Pintsch is already in Pakistan working on so many new ideas and managing the affair.
Labels: Dr. Norbert Pintsch, Marlis Bartkiewitz, Monika Kuppler, SES, Thatta Kedona, Volunteers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:00 AM,
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