Gloria Boateng

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Gloria Boateng (2018)

Gloria Boateng (born August 28, 1979 in Pramso in Ghana ) is an award-winning education activist and founding initiator of the non-profit education support association SchlauFox eV The German-Ghanaian has been a teacher in Hamburg since 2011.

Life

Childhood and youth

Gloria Boateng grew up in the small town of Pramso, southeast of Kumasi , with her grandmother and was brought to Germany in 1989 by her mother, who lived in Germany, and her grandfather. A short time later, her mother was deported and her grandfather died. Boateng was then accepted into a German family as a foster child . Especially in this phase of her life, she had serious experiences of racism. Despite major language barriers, constant hostility and a pregnancy in the last school year, Boateng graduated from high school in 2000.

Studies and professions

Gloria Boateng trained as a foreign language correspondent at the State Foreign Language School in Hamburg and then worked for several years at the University of Hamburg as a foreign language clerk. At the same time she took up a teaching degree with the subjects German and technology, which she completed with the second state examination.

Gloria Boateng has been a teacher at a Hamburg district school since 2011. She is also a qualified fitness trainer and personal food coach.

Private

Gloria Boateng has a biological daughter and a foster child.

Social Commitment

Gloria Boateng has been committed to equal opportunities and educational justice since her youth . In 2008 she initiated the foundation of the SchlauFox association, which has been committed to promoting the education of socio-economically disadvantaged children and young people ever since. In 2019, the association consists of almost 200 volunteer employees, six full-time employees and six major programs:

  • JEA! - A qualification for everyone : support and coaching of young people towards their first graduation
  • Ankerlicht : mentor for young refugees
  • STAR : Support for inclusion through school support
  • Plietsche children's kitchen : nutrition education through cooking courses and nutrition-related activities
  • Varia Kultur : Promotion of intercultural dialogue with the means of art
  • Focus : needs-based individual help

Awards

In 2004, Gloria Boateng was accepted into the scholarship program of the German National Academic Foundation and received a full scholarship until 2008. She also has received numerous awards for its commitment to the club SchlauFox: 2011 awarded her the then Federal Commissioner for Migration and Refugees Maria Böhmer , the Integration medal . It was proposed for this in the previous process by the SPD politician and member of the Bundestag Aydan Özoğuz . The award was presented to her at the Federal Chancellery .

In 2016, Gloria Boateng was one of six women who was awarded the trophy “The Golden Image of the Woman ” by the magazine Bild der Frau der Funke Mediengruppe . The highly endowed prize was presented to her as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the award in the “ Theater an der Elbe ”.

In 2019, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Merit Cross on Ribbon).

publication

  • Gloria Boateng, Dorota-Anna Nowaczyk: My rocky road to success: How learning helps to overcome hurdles and why giving up is not a solution . smm Leichte Sprache Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-947901-00-5 ( dnb.de ).

Web links

Commons : Gloria Boateng  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Learn and finally live. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gloria Boateng. In: GOLDEN PICTURE of WOMAN. Accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Vera Fengler: How Gloria Boateng from Ghana became a fighter by nature. October 13, 2016, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Khuê Pham : exceptional student from Ghana: "Life is one struggle" . In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2007 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Hanna-Lotte Mikuteit: She lives the role model: The Hamburg integration figure . November 28, 2011, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ "You can't spoil my life". In: Hinz & Kunzt. January 26, 2012, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Hanna-Lotte Mikuteit: She lives the role model: The Hamburg integration figure . November 28, 2011, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Sabine Tesche: A student idea became an engine for education. July 14, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Hanna-Lotte Mikuteit: She lives the role model: The Hamburg integration figure . November 28, 2011, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Sabine Tesche: A student idea became an engine for education. July 14, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ SchlauFox: SchlauFox - About SchlauFox. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Travel and Dates / Citizens' Festival of the Federal President 2015. Retrieved on April 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Vera Fengler: How Gloria Boateng from Ghana became a fighter by nature. October 13, 2016, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Exclusive interview: Gloria Boateng. In: africa! Portal. October 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Khuê Pham: Exceptional student from Ghana: "Life is one struggle" . In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2007 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 4, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Aydan Özoğuz: Aydan Özoguz. Accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Prize winners 2016. In: GOLDEN BILD der FRAU. Accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ Vera Fengler: How Gloria Boateng from Ghana became a fighter by nature. October 13, 2016, accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  19. ↑ The Federal President, awarding the "Engagement educates" medal. Accessed December 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Boateng, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and education activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Pramso, Ghana