Katrin Rohde

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Katrin Rohde with orphan, 2005, Ouagadougou
AMPO courtyard
Katrin Rohde hands over converted custom-made wheelchairs

Katrin Rohde-Eshishiku (born June 4, 1948 in Hamburg ) is the founder of social projects in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso .

Life and projects

At the age of 24, she took over her first bookstore. In the course of her commitment to African asylum seekers in Schleswig-Holstein , she came to Burkina Faso for the first time in 1988 and fell seriously ill on this trip. Out of gratitude to the village where she was nursed to health, she collected donations in Germany for a school building and subsequently traveled to Burkina Faso several times.

In 1995 Katrin Rohde sold her two bookstores in Plön and Preetz and moved to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso , where she initially looked after street children in her house. In 1996 she founded the Burkinabe Association Managré Nooma pour la Protection des Orphelins (AMPO) and carried out the following projects in Ouagadougou (schedule as of 2019):

  • 1996 The first orphanage is opened, initially 29 boys lived here. Today there are up to 60 boys between 6 and 18 years of age.
  • 1998 Opening of a public, state-approved health station.
  • 1999 Opening of the girls' orphanage AMPO Filles for up to 60 girls aged 6-18 years.
  • 1999 PPFilles starts advising on family planning , AIDS prevention and circumcision for girls and women.
  • 2002 Katrin Rohde writes her book "Mama Tenga - my African life", the first edition is published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
  • 2003 Opening of the MIA house, which takes in underage girls, pregnant and HIV- infected, and their children.
  • 2004 The Cinémobile shows educational films in distant villages and has a large audience every year.
  • 2005 Opening of the TONDTENGA agricultural school to prevent rural exodus . Up to 80 boys learn organic farming and cattle breeding.
  • 2008 The ALMA house, like the MIA house, gives another 20 underage girls a home.
  • 2008 The mobile wheelchair workshop also reaches people with disabilities in remote areas in the country.
  • 2009 The infirmary is expanded to include a gynecology station , dentist department and rehabilitation center.
  • 2010 Introduction of the nutrition project for mothers and their malnourished children and babies.
  • 2012 Opening of the multi-generation EMMA YIRI farm.
  • 2013 microcredits enable groups of women to become self-employed.
  • 2015 Merger of the women's shelters MIA and ALMA on the grounds of the multi-generation farm. EMMA YIRI will be closed.
  • 2017 Opening of the dormitory for male trainees - BENGA ZAKA

Their activities and the AMPO association were supported and financed by the Schleswig-Holstein- based association Sahel eV and the association Friends for AMPO eV, founded in Berlin in 2013. On January 1st, 2020 the association Sahel eV was renamed AMPO international eV. In order to make the cooperation of the associations more efficient, work is currently being carried out on a merger of Sahel eV and Friends for AMPO eV under the association AMPO international eV. In addition, Katrin Rohde founded the Katrin Rohde Foundation in 2005 to secure the long-term projects.

Honors

Ouagadougou 2019, Katrin Rohde receives the Burkina Faso Order of Merit
  • 2001 Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2005 nomination among 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize
  • 2005 Award as "Chevalier de l´Ordre du Mérite Burkinabé"
  • 2009 Certificate of Honor from the Order of Mother Teresa
  • 2011 Ashoka Fellow
  • 2017 Appointment as "officier de l'ordre national de Burkina Faso"
  • 2019 Award of the Order of Merit of Burkina Faso
  • 2020 Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. The award should take place at the end of March, but was postponed due to the corona virus.

Private

Katrin Rohde converted to Islam , married a Burkinabe and has a grown son.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Rohde: Mama Tenga - my African life . Nieswand, Kiel 2013, ISBN 978-3-89567-030-5 , p. 275-279 .
  2. ↑ facts | Sahel eV - AMPO (No longer available online.) In: www.sahel.de. Archived from the original on June 18, 2016 ; Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ AMPO In: www.freunde-fuer-ampo.de. Friends for AMPO eV, April 4, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2018 (German, French).
  4. ↑ AMPO International eV | Information material - AMPO International. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Foundation - Katrin Rohde Foundation. In: www.katrin-rohde-stiftung.de. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Alexandra Scherer: Malente: Visit from Burkina Faso. Ostholsteiner Anzeiger , May 5, 2014, accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ashoka Fellow: Katrin Rohde. Ashoka (Organization) , accessed November 20, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Big award for Sahel eV in Burkina Faso. Sahel e. V., accessed November 20, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Order of Merit for Katrin Rohde. Berlin Week , January 11, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit : "I do exactly what the terrorists don't want". Die Zeit , April 14, 2020, accessed on April 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Burkinabe founder of an AMPO orphanage in Burkina Faso
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg