Charlotte Godicke
Charlotte Gödicke (née Liebenau; born September 19, 1932 in Brake ; † February 21, 2013 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ; honorary title: Beloved Daughter of Sagay ) was a German teacher and private development worker .
Life
Family and work
Charlotte Gödicke trained as a photographer from 1950 to 1953. In 1957 she married the customs officer Heinz Gödicke. The couple moved to Meppen in 1959 . From 1959 to 1961 she worked as a photographer for the Bundeswehr. In 1960 and 1963 their two sons were born in Meppen. In 1967 the family moved to Osterholz-Scharmbeck , where their daughter was born in 1968. She returned to work in April 1970 and worked as a photo developer and pharmacist until September 1973. From November 1973 she worked as a temporary worker at the central school in Hambergen (today: Gesamtschule am Wällenberg / Hambergen ). After taking a correspondence course in pedagogy and passing Lehramtsprüfung it was taken as a permanent employee in the teaching profession and taught until her retirement in 1996 in addition to photography and traffic education , art, geography and English.
Voluntary work
In 1977 a member of the Osterholz district council traveled privately to Sagay City on the Philippines' Negros island . After his return, his impressions of the poverty there moved him to convince his political friends in Osterholz-Scharmbeck to undertake an aid operation. As a result, a sponsorship was signed between the district of Osterholz and the municipality of Sagay . In 1980, Charlotte Gödicke and her younger son accompanied a delegation to Sagay for the first time in order to document the help that had begun as a photographer. The personal experience of not being able to provide timely help to malnourished children suffering from typhus and cholera resulted in Gödicke's continued commitment in the Philippines. In 1986 she joined the Initiatives Partnerschaft Eine Welt eV (intercultural school partnerships) with her project “Philsagay”, pushed the district's support for Sagay, and remained an active member of the association until the end.
In over 25 years of active work in the Philippines, Charlotte Gödicke raised over 1.5 million German marks through her partnership project “Philsagay” to the people of Sagay City through fundraising . She and her circle of friends in Osterholz-Scharmbeck used the collected donations to build and equip schools, health measures, drinking water supplies and fishing projects in Sagay . Your projects followed the principle of helping people to help themselves . She was supported by the Filipino politician Juan Flavier and Bernhard Ehlen , the founder of the German Doctors aid organization . Sagay City, formerly Sagay, is now one of the most developed regions in the Philippines.
Awards
For her work she was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon on November 21, 1996 in the town hall in Ritterhude . On December 15, 2004 she received the second highest order in the Philippines, the Banaag Award, from the Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacanang in Manila .
Publications
- Speech by Charlotte Gödicke about her Sagay Project (PDF; 156 kB), African-Asian-Institut Hamburg, April 30, 2005, NiBiS.de
- with Walter Mülich: South Africa currently - expert reports and media use , In: Eine Welt in der Schule, (2000) 2, pp. 19-22.
- Women in the World (PDF; 1.4 MB), in: A world in school, grades 1–10, issue 4/1996, pp. 17–19
- “Let pictures speak!” Art lessons with Filipino and German children , in: Eine Welt in der Schule, (1994) 2, pp. 13-17.
- Scissors for left-handers , In: Working + learning. Technik, 2 (1992) 6, pp. 40-41.
- Partnership Philippines , In: Die Arbeitslehre - Arbeit + Learn, 9 (1987) 54, pp. 16-19.
Web links
- charlottegoedicke.de
- Amb.Natividad meets Charlotte Gödicke, German teacher who transformed Sagay, Negros Occidental , press release from the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, November 16, 2012
- Memento Mori for Charlotte Gödicke: She lived her dream! , Obituary of the Partnership One World eV initiative
Individual evidence
- ↑ Speech by Charlotte Gödicke about her Sagay Project (PDF; 156 kB), African-Asian-Institut Hamburg, April 30, 2005
- ↑ Dieter Sippach: Review of 20 years managing director of the Initiatives Partnership One World eV
- ↑ Alleviate screaming distress. SPIEGEL report on municipal development aid for the developing world , Der Spiegel , October 9, 1989
- ↑ Amb. Natividad meets Charlotte Gödicke, German teacher who transformed Sagay, Negros Occidental , press release from the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, November 16, 2012
- ↑ Memento Mori for Charlotte Gödicke: She lived her dream! , Obituary of the Partnership One World eV initiative
- ↑ a b Michael Wilke: Misery overcome by helping people to help themselves , Weser-Kurier , February 26, 2013
- ^ A b Four Heroines Remembered Last February in: Manila Bulletin , March 4, 2013
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 49, No. 43, March 18, 1998, p. 3338
- ↑ Text on the presentation of the Banaag Awards 2004. (PDF; 62.1 kB) Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), accessed on March 6, 2013 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godicke, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beloved Daughter of Sagay (honorary title); Liebenau, Charlotte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and private development worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brake |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 2013 |
| Place of death | Osterholz-Scharmbeck |