No One Like Him – Das Gospelalbum ist da! – New Gospel Album out now

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Es ist da: Jacksons Debut Album „No One Like Him“!
Woran denken Sie, wenn es um Gospelmusik geht? An Gospelstars wie Mahalia Jackson und Aretha Franklin? Oder an Gospels wie „Amazing Grace“ und „O happy day“?

Dann möchten wir Ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf die Gospellieder von Jackson lenken!

Lange hat es gedauert, und die Produktion des Albums lag mitten in einer aufregenden Zeit! Denn Jackson hatte an dem Wettbewerb „The Next Popstar“ in Ruanda teilgenommen, der uns lange in Atem gehalten hat. Am 14.3. fand abends die Schlußveranstaltung statt.
Jackson konnte die Siegestrophäe leider nicht entgegennehmen. Wir hatten so gehofft!
Die gute Nachricht ist aber, daß er es unter die TOP 4 geschafft hat! Das hat ihm eine große Aufmerksamkeit gebracht, wie er mir berichtete. Und wenn man bedenkt, daß an dem Wettbewerb 1000 junge Leute teilnahmen, darunter sogar Profimusiker, dann ist sein 4. Platz als Neuling ein absolut großer Erfolg!
Wir gratulieren also Jackson herzlich zu seinem Erfolg und wünschen ihm, daß sein Album viele Liebhaber und Hörer findet.

In seinen Liedern verarbeitet er u.a. Gedanken und Ereignisse aus seinem eigenen Leben, wie etwa in dem Lied „House of God“. Das macht sie authentisch und berührt. Mal verhalten, mal lebendig erzählen seine Lieder von seinem christlichen Glauben.
Jackson hat eine hoffnungsvolle Perspektive, wenn er genug Unterstützung bei der Verwirklichung seines Traums erfährt, Berufsmusiker zu werden.
Sie können ihm dabei helfen, indem Sie sein Album erwerben, entweder als CD oder als mp3-Dateien per Download. Alle Einzelheiten dazu finden Sie auf der Seite, die ich eigens dafür eingerichtet habe.

It’s out now: Jackson’s debut album „No One Like Him“!
What do you think of when it comes to gospel music? Of gospel stars like Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin? Or of gospel songs like „Amazing Grace“ and „O happy day“?

In that case, we would like to draw your attention to Jackson’s gospel songs!

It took a long time, and the production of the album was in the middle of an exciting time! For Jackson had taken part in the competition „The Next Popstar“ in Rwanda, which kept us in suspense for a long time. On 14.3. the final event took place in the evening.
Unfortunately, Jackson could not receive the trophy. We had hoped so!
But the good news is that he made it into the TOP 4! This has brought him a lot of attention, as he told me. And when you consider that 1000 young people took part in the competition, including even professional musicians, his 4th place as a newcomer is an absolutely great success!
So we congratulate Jackson warmly on his success and wish him that his album finds many lovers and listeners.

In his songs he processes, among other things, thoughts and events from his own life, such as in the song „House of God“. This makes them authentic and touching. Sometimes meditative, sometimes lively, his songs tell of his Christian faith.
Jackson has a hopeful perspective if he receives enough support to realise his dream of becoming a professional musician.
You can help him achieve this by purchasing his album, either as a CD or as mp3 files via download. You can find all the details on the page I have set up especially for this purpose.

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Ruandische Musiker mahnen zu Vorsicht! – Rwandan musicians urge caution!

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Bereits im Mai 2020 haben zwei Künstler unserer Initiative „Künstler für Kinder“ ein Lied komponiert, in welchem sie auf die Gefahren und Folgen von Covid19 hinweisen und um Achtsamkeit im Umgang miteinander werben.
Gestern (26.3.) haben sie dazu ein neues Video veröffentlicht.
Der Reggae-Musiker „Ras Erigz“ gehört seit 2018, also von Beginn an, zu unserer Initiative. Zwei Jahre später ist sein Freund „Sasha West“ dazugestoßen.
Beide engagieren sich für das Bildungsprojekt, um noch mehr Kindern die Möglichkeit für eine adäquate Schul- und Berufsausbildung zu ermöglichen.

Wie bereits in unserem Blog mehrfach geschrieben, hat die Coronapandemie dramatische Auswirkungen auf die armen Menschen im Land!

Die Kinder brauchen sofort unsere Hilfe!

Während gesunde Menschen in unserem Teil der Welt bei allen Einschränkungen nicht um ihr Leben fürchten müssen, sieht das in Ländern wie Ruanda oder Äthiopien in der armen Bevölkerung ganz anders aus. Ich denke, es bedarf keiner langen Erklärungen, wie not-wendig im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes unsere Hilfe jetzt ist.
Unterstützen Sie unsere Arbeit bitte mit Ihrer Spende. Danke!

Back in May 2020, two artists from our initiative „Künstler für Kinder“ (Artists 4 Kids“) composed a song in which they point out the dangers and consequences of Covid19 and call for mindfulness in dealing with each other.
Yesterday (26.3.) they released a new video.
The reggae musician „Ras Erigz“ has been part of our initiative since 2018, i.e. from the beginning. Two years later, his friend „Sasha West“ joined.
Both are committed to the education project in order to give even more children the opportunity for adequate schooling and vocational training.

As already written several times in our blog, the corona pandemic has dramatic effects on the poor people in the country!

The children need our help immediately!

While healthy people in our part of the world do not have to fear for their lives despite all the restrictions, in countries like Rwanda or Ethiopia the situation is completely different in the poor population. I think there is no need for a long explanation of how necessary our help is now in the truest sense of the word.
Please support our work with your donation. Thank you!

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Lions Club Gotha setzt Zeichen in Zeiten von Corona – Lions Club Gotha sets an example in times of Corona

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Die Pandemie hat uns alle derzeit fest im Griff. Das öffentliche Leben ist stark eingeschränkt, viele Aktivitäten sind nicht gestattet.
Wer nun denkt, daß damit auch alle Aktiviäten eingefroren sind, die dazu dienen, anderen Menschen in Not zu helfen, der irrt. Es gibt genug Beispiele von Solidarität und unkomplizierter nachbarschaftlicher Hilfe in unserem Land.
Aber was ist mit den Menschen, denen es wesentlich schlechter geht als uns, die wir doch in relativ gesicherten Verhältnissen leben?

Wir sind sehr dankbar, daß wir in dieser notvollen Zeit die Unterstützung von des Lions Clubs Gotha erfahren, der uns schon in der Vergangenheit geholfen hat.
Freilich konnte der Club viele geplante Aktivitäten nicht durchführen, bei denen er 2020 Spendengelder einwerben wollte. So mussten infolge der Corona-Situation das traditionelle Benefizkonzert im Ekhof-Theater, das Gothardus-Fest und der Verkauf von Feuerzangenbowle zum Weihnachtsmarkt leider ausfallen. Es blieb einzig noch der Verkauf des Adventskalenders und die Frage war, wie er angenommen würde. Es gab genügend Unwägbarkeiten.
Dennoch hat der Adventskalender einen guten Erlös gebracht und wir freuen uns, daß auch unser Bildungsprojekt mit einer Spende von 1500 Euro bedacht wurde.
Das Geld wird uns helfen, die Not unserer 72 Patenkinder und ihrer Familien zu lindern, in die sie durch die pandemiebedingten Alltagsbeschränkungen geraten sind.

The pandemic has us all firmly in its grip at the moment. Public life is severely restricted, many activities are not allowed.
If you think that this means that all activities to help other people in need have been frozen, you are wrong. There are enough examples of solidarity and uncomplicated neighbourly help in our country.
But what about the people who are much worse off than we are, who nevertheless live in relatively secure circumstances?

We are very grateful for the support of the Lions Club Gotha, which has already helped us in the past.
Admittedly, the club was not able to carry out many planned activities in which it wanted to raise funds in 2020. As a result of the Corona situation, the traditional benefit concert at the Ekhof Theatre, the Gothardus Festival and the sale of „Feuerzangenbowle“ at the Christmas Market unfortunately had to be cancelled. The only thing left was the sale of the Advent calendar and The question was how it would be received. There were enough imponderables.
Nevertheless, the Advent calendar brought in good proceeds and we are happy that our education project also received a donation of 1500 Euros.
The money will help us to alleviate the hardship our 72 sponsored children and their families are facing due to the daily restrictions caused by the pandemic.

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Privileg Impfen! – The privilege of vaccination!

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Das Impf-Management in Deutschland und in Europa erhitzt derzeit die Gemüter in unseren Breiten. Dabei kämpfen Länder außerhalb Europas diesbezüglich noch mit viel grundlegenderen Problemen. Die sogenannte erste Welt hat sich durch Verträge den größten Teil der anlaufenden Impfstoffproduktion zur Bekämpfung von Covid19 gesichert. Und die ärmeren Länder gucken mal wieder in die Röhre.

Der Ruandische Präsident, Paul Kagame, beklagt diese Ungerechtigkeit und den damit verbundenen westlichen Neokolonialismus in einem Artikel im Guardian, den es sich zu lesen lohnt.

Quelle: africanews.com

Vaccination management in Germany and Europe is currently heating up emotions in our part of the world. Yet countries outside Europe are struggling with much more fundamental problems in this regard. The so-called first world has secured for itself, through contracts, most of the vaccine production that is starting up to fight Covid19. And the poorer countries are once again looking down the barrel.

The Rwandan President Paul Kagame deplores this injustice and the associated Western neo-colonialism in an article in the Guardian that is well worth reading.

Source: africanews.com

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Life on the other side – the fates of our sponsored children

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• Informazioni sul progetto in italiano
• Información del proyecto en español
• Informations sur le projet en français
• 日本語でのプロジェクト情報

Anyone who has travelled to an African country and spent time there not only in a holiday hotel, on safari and on the beach, but who has gone off the beaten track, quickly gets an impression of the real life of the people, beyond the colourful world of the glossy brochures.

Today we present the fate of a small family whose children have been supported in our educational sponsorship project for a short time. They belong to those who are at the bottom of the social ladder. Without support, the children would be destined for a life of boundless poverty without hope for a better perspective in life.
It is one of the good news from the African continent that supporting the poorest people not only fundamentally changes their lives, but also contributes to life in society and thus to peace and stability in the country. We are grateful that we as the Ecumenical 1World Circle can make a small contribution to this with the help of the donors.

Now read the life story of Marte* as told to me by our Rwandan project leader during my visit to Rwanda in January 2020. *(Name has been changed to protect privacy).

„Marte lived in very difficult circumstances from an early age. She was four years old when she was orphaned by the genocide. Her only memory is of watching her mother being murdered. Although she was so small, she remembers seeing people chopping her mother into pieces.
After the genocide, she was left alone like all the other orphans and was taken to an orphanage run by a French sister order.
However, soon after, the Rwandan government had disputes with the French government over their involvement in the genocide. As a result, all the French were expelled from the country.
As a result, the nuns returned to France. The orphans were left on their own again and began to wander, going from family to family. Marte lived in this way until she was 14 years old. Eventually she went in search of work as a housemaid with various families. During this time she had great problems, because at the age of 15 a family pretended to want to adopt her. They took her in, but treated her not like a child, but like a slave. She had to do all the housework, was not allowed to go to school, got no pocket money and suffered a lot under these circumstances.
After three years she left the family and looked for another job as a housemaid. She found work with another family and after some time she became a victim of rape by a man who seduced her by giving her some milk and making small promises. The family for whom she did all the housework and cooked did not give her enough to eat, so she was very hungry and fell for the man’s promises. She had to leave the family and was now living like a homeless person.

In this situation, I heard about the mother and went to visit her at the property of a family in my neighbourhood where she was living.
I could not do much for her, but I tried to help her because I noticed that she and her baby were malnourished. So I gave her something to eat every day. But soon this didn’t seem enough and I gave her some money so that she could find a small place to rent. That was all I could do for her.
So the baby grew up under these very difficult circumstances. Marte carried the girl on her back and went out every day to find day labour to earn some money for her daily bread. Sometimes she earned some, sometimes not. That is why she is so skinny.
When her daughter was three years old, she was raped again by a man and gave birth to a second girl. Today she lives in a tiny house with not enough space for three people.
That is why I am so grateful to the sponsor that he took over the sponsorship for the older child, because since then the girl can go to school and Marte can start looking for work with a clear conscience in order to secure food at least for the next day. If her big daughter didn’t go to school, she might be wandering the streets.

But I still worry because if Marte got sick, there would be no one to take care of the family. And what would happen if Marte died? Because she doesn’t know anything about her relatives. And whenever something happens in the family, the neighbours come to me because they know that I take care of Marte and her children. When she gave birth to her second daughter, the neighbours called me and told me to take her to the doctor. No one cared for her. So I went to her place by motorbike taxi and took her to the doctor. Fortunately, she gave birth to a healthy child who is now about two years old.
As I was worried that Marte would not have any more children to take care of, I asked the health centre to talk to her about family planning. I hope that she will not have any more children now. Because as you have seen, she already has a lot of trouble taking care of her two children.
That’s why the sponsorship is already a great help and it would be good if one day there would be the possibility to support the mother in starting a small business so that she can take care of herself and her children. For this, an amount of at least 300 Euros would be necessary to start a small fruit and vegetable trade.
Then she could also move to a better flat, because at the moment the room she lives in has about 3sqm.
I am always near the family to be there for them if they need help. And if it is possible to help Marte start a small trade, I will be there to advise her.“

After returning from Rwanda, I had the opportunity to tell about my trip at the Lions Club in Gotha. A club member was very touched by this life story and helped the little family so that they now live in better housing conditions.
And the two girls have found sponsors. For this we are infinitely grateful!

Gerhard Reuther

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