Pakistan House Potsdam
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Eröffnung des Pakistan House Potsdam, Mai 2001
Eröffnung des Pakistan House Potsdam, Mai 2001 Humeira Hassan, Charge d´ Affaires / Pak. Botschaft und Prof. Dr. Norbert Pintsch / PHP
ALLGEMEINES: Das (PHP) ist die einzige pakistanische Einrichtung in den neuen Bundesländern, das die Arbeit des Deutsch-Pakistanischen Forums, wie auch der Deutsch-Pakistanischen Gesellschaft unterstützt und gerne Interessenten informiert. Das PHP dient für Projektbesprechungen und Projektvorbereitungen; ebenso zur Projektinformation in einem Showroom. Das etwa 235-Jahre alten Punjab-Tor im Hofbereich (unterstützt durch Federation of Pakistan, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Karachi u.a.) bildet mit den Grundmauern des PHP ein etwa 500 Jahre altes interessantes Ensemble mit anregender Atmosphäre, auch für offizielle Anlässe. Die offizielle Einweihung fand im Mai 2001 anlässlich des 3. Deutsch-Pakistanischen Dialogs in Berlin, unter Mitwirkung von: H.E. Humaira Hasan / Pakistan Embassy statt.
KOOPERATIONEN: Das Pakistan House Potsdam ist die bisher einzige Einrichtung im deutschsprachigen Raum die über die pakistanische NGO (Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama) und die deutsche NGO (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kultur) speziell mit unterschiedlichen Institutionen in Pakistan kooperiert, u.z.:
Moh. Nawaz, Harappa
Aksic, Muzaffarabad
Punjab Kaliko Printing, Lahore
Threadnet, Karimabad
Nomad Gallery, Islamabad
Munira Alam, Peshawar
Better Tomorrow Welfare Organization, Rawalpindi
Al-Falah-House, Karachi
Sungi Development Foundation, Haripur
Behbud Association of Pakistan, Islamabad.
GRUNDLAGE: Basis für die Kooperation ist die 1998 in der Stadthalle Bonn, von der Pakistanischen Botschaft in Bonn und dem Export Promotion Bureau in Karachi organisierte - Ausstellung HANDICRAFT FROM PAKISTAN die einen Überblick zur Arbeit aller oben genannten Projekte gab.
LEITUNG: Pakistan House Potsdam
Amjad Ali, Prof. Dr. Pintsch,
Dr. Senta Siller für die Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kultur e.V. Berlin, Potsdam.
ANSCHRIFT / KONTAKT: Pakistan House Potsdam
Charlottenstraße 121
14467 Potsdam
Tel. u. Fax.: ++49 331 20 10 881
email: pakistanhouse33@hotmail.com
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:46 AM,
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Pakistan House Potsdam Moves On
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
After over ten years of honorary work, the Pakistan House Potsdam, Germany is closing as the Pakistani village self help project is entering another phase. The Pakistan House has remained a starting point for self help project in Pakistani village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka situated on the bank of the river Ravi some 80 kilometers from Lahore. The closure of Pakistan House Potsdam does not mean an end to the noble work. Instead, it is a new phase in the life of the self help project because the basis has been created and people in the village have been trained and they are operating more or less independently since quite a long time.
Idea of Pakistan House took birth back in 1997 when Bonn was still the federal capital of Germany. With the cooperation of the DGFK – an ardent supporter of cultural development projects – the Pakistan House was established in Potsdam, the provincial capital of the province of Brandenburg in the close proximity of Berlin which was to become a federal capital.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:42 AM,
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Pakistan House Potsdam Moves On
Saturday, April 21, 2012
After almost ten years of honorary work in the Pakistan House Potsdam, this phase is now coming to an end. The Pakistan House Potsdam was a starting point for foreign project workers, guests and visitors as well as for volunteers and the interested public. The active and non-selfish initiation and support of real self-help projects, support for income generating measures for the rural population, specially women, based upon the traditional culture were not beautiful words but reality; The support for the implementation of environment-friendly techniques in the rural areas was carried out through on-site lectures, in the NGO’s and educational institutions, through experimental workshops and product manufacturing and local sales. The idea, to operate independent of the central technical infra-structure (electricity), was demonstrated in practice and shown, that not only lighting, but also other usages, like charging a cell-phone battery etc. are possible. By activating volunteers outside of the project and generating interest of foreigners in the project countries, a sort of “soft” tourism was created. The PHP provided valuable help in the realization of such ideas.
The closure of Pakistan House Potsdam, the existence of which could only be successful through volunteers, does not mean an end to the work, but a further development, because the basis has been created, the people in the NGO’s have been trained and they are operating more or less rather independently since quite a long time.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:01 AM,
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