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The climax of the official visit was the planting of palm-trees on W\u00fcrzburg Road in Mwanza. The delegation had brought along 1200 \u20ac to finance the planting of 200 palm-trees altogether. W\u00fcrzburg Road is a busy street leading to Bugando Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n In the streets of Mwanza there is a big social problem with homeless children and youngsters. They are helped<\/span> A special event was the visit of Sukuma Museum at Bujora Cultural Centre, where the performances of drumming and dancers especially impressed the representatives of Africa Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally Lord Mayor Leonard Bihondo invited everybody to a dinner, where he thanked heartily for their engagement. He thanked Michael Stolz and his wife Benita and Eva-Maria Barklind-Schwander from W\u00fcrzburg International Office, who had organized the complete journey.<\/span><\/p>\n After crossing the Serengeti National Park, most members of the group stopped by in Moshi. There is Kilimandjaro Medical Centre where Dr. Bernd K\u00f6hler is head of an infusion project, which deeply impressed the visitors. At this plant special infusions are embottled at very affordable prices. They are used in more than 80 African hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n Right now a fourth classroom is being built, but Dr. K\u00f6hler is a bit unhappy because of money being short notoriously. He, therefore, hopes for financial support. <\/span><\/p>\n Report by Karl Georg R\u00f6tter, translated by Hanne Bellemann-Benkert \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLOURFUL SHIRTS AND FRIENDSHIP TREE This spring some people escaped the cold temperatures of W\u00fcrzburg , having been invited by the City of Mwanza . As they arrived there on February 20th , 2009, they they were warmly welcomed by the Lord Mayor Leonard Bihondo. 20 persons from W\u00fcrzburg had come to meet the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-en","category-previous-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwanza.de\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Interview](\"http:\/\/wp1048575.server-he.de\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mw09interviews.jpg\" "\\"Michael")
Tree number one was planted by Mayor Marion Sch\u00e4fer and the Lord Mayor of Mwanza, Leonard Bihondo, it was named Friendship Tree. The second tree was planted by Derek Mitchell, a representative of the Irish Wicklow county, where W\u00fcrzburg\u2019s twin-town Bray is situated; so this one got the name Triangle Tree. The next tree was planted by Michael Stolz and his wife Benita, their tree was named Mwanza Association Tree. The fourth one, Africa Festival Tree, was planted by some staff of the \u201cAfrica Festival\u201d, which takes place in W\u00fcrzburg each year. The planting of the palm-trees aroused interest of the media. Michael Stolz, Marion Sch\u00e4fer and Lord Mayor Leonard Bihondo were interviewed quite often. The Mwanza tree-planting was even mentioned on TV. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"T-shirts](\"http:\/\/wp1048575.server-he.de\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mw09-t-shirts-bergabe.jpg\" "\\"Wolfgang")
by Upendo-Daima. Its project manager is Marga van Barschot from Holland. The co-workers address the children in the streets, others are taken to Upendo-Daima by their parents being unable to care for their children. From there they go to school or finish their professional education; they do their homework there and get fed. They live in simple houses (one is called W\u00fcrzburg House). Outdoors you can find a huge cooker powered by solar energy, a present of the Umweltstation (environment watch station) W\u00fcrzburg. The W\u00fcrzburg group absolved a considerably large program , among others they visited a school for disabled children, a centre for leprosy and the fire-brigade of Mwanza, where an old fire engine from W\u00fcrzburg is being used.<\/span><\/p>\n
Originally published in German in Volksblatt\/Mainpost 11.\/12.3.2009<\/span><\/p>\n