German aid worker wins Afghan hearts
WECF network organisation Katachel highlighted in article on Radio Netherlands World Service (tekst in het Nederlands)
16.04.2008 |Hans de Vreij, Defence and Security Specialist, Radio Netherlands Worldservice
Sybille Schnehage in Afghanistan
In 2009 Katachel e.V. discovered that one of the local managers of Katachel Afghanistan had registered some of the associations property (women's soap factory, houses for widows) on his own name. When this became known, and the manager was confronted with this, and asked to re-register this property on the name of the association, this manager went to the press and accused the director Sybille Schneehage of misappropriation of goods or property. This unfounded information was spread by the media worldwide, and has lead to an investigation by the Afghani and German criminal police services. In May 2010, the Afghani authorities re-registered all the property back to the association Katachel. It took many more months, but after not finding any wrong doings with the director of Katachel e.V., the German authorities withdrew all charges on 13 December 2010. WECF is very glad that the problem has been solved and continues to support the work of Katachel.
A German aid worker recently opened a school in rural north Afghanistan with financial support from the Netherlands. A grammar school no less. So that rural children also get the chance to go to university. Until recently that was unthinkable in this province and in this country, one of the poorest in the world. But Dr. Sybille Schnehage proves that nothing is impossible. She even does business with the local Taliban.
Twenty schools including a grammar school, 770 waterwells, 60 kilometre of roads and bridges, benefits for 300 widows and the building of 170 (mud) homes. These are a few of the humanitarian achievements of a remarkable German woman, who has been helping a rural community in the north Afghanistan province of Kunduz since 1994.
Dr. Sybille Schnehage is the key figure in a small private aid organisation: the Katachel humanitarian aid association, named after a town in Kunduz. In the area, a minority of Pashtun live, the same group which forms the majority in southern Afghanistan including Uruzgan and from which the Taliban movement comes.
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Met financiële steun uit Nederland heeft een Duitse hulpverleenster onlangs een school geopend op het platteland van Noord-Afghanistan. Een gymnasium wel te verstaan. Zodat ook plattelandskinderen de kans krijgen naar de universiteit te gaan. Tot voor kort ondenkbaar in deze provincie en in dit land, maar dr. Sybille Schnehage bewijst dat niets onmogelijk is. Zelfs met de lokale Taliban doet ze zaken.
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16.04.2008 | Hans de Vreij, Defence and Security Specialist, Radio Netherlands Worldservice
