November 2023

We are taking part at the “Bamboo Collaboration Congress 2023”! On two of three congress days Rabea participates in the following sessions: Regenerative Agrigulture with Bamboo – Kjell Tahon, Netherlands  Bamboo Value Chain – Juan Pablo Martinez, Guatemala  Financing Bamboo Projects – Melania Keita, Kenya  A big thank you to Empowerment Bamboo for organising this wonderful event for the first time this year, as … Read more

October 2023

Participation in the One-day-Workshop: Learn from each other – Construction Projects in Ghana, organised and carried out by we-building e.V. https://we-building.org/2023/01/09/online-workshop/

September 2023

23rd September 2023: We present our organisation and the bamboo project at the Ghana Länder Forum! The event takes place annually and is organised by the Ghana-Forum NRW in cooperation with Auslandsgesellschaft.de e. V. and the Ghana-Council NRW e. V. We would like to thank the organisers and everyone who attended for the interesting, informative … Read more

August 2023

We would like to say a huge thank you to noa-entertainment, who have been supporting us very effectively for some time now. In particular, by setting up our donation boxes at their fantastic events, we have already collected several large and small donations for the bamboo project in Ghana! We would therefore of course also … Read more

June 2023

Cycling for a good climate… Our organisation is taking part! In the city cycling competition, we are pedalling for 21 days for more cycling promotion, climate protection and quality of life. With a team of four, we cycled a total of 1562 kilometres. This enabled us to avoid 253 kg of CO2. We are ranked … Read more

May 2023

Completion of the roof for the treatment tank. 07th May 2023: Chris and Rabea visit the Rhein-Main University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden to witness the construction of a bamboo pavilion live. The concept for the pavilion was developed in the winter semester 2022/23 as part of a series of seminars on climate-friendly construction by … Read more

April 2023

Save the date! On 02 and 03 June we will present the project “A Bamboo Training Centre in Ghana” at the European Bamboo Expo in Dortmund. https://europeanbambooexpo.eu/ Here you can find a nice report from RheinMain University about the hands-on workshop in Ghana: https://www.hs‑rm.de/en/about/news/latest-news/artikel/green-building-in-ghana

March 2023

In March, the construction of the roofing for the treatment tank and the construction of a toilet building made of the sustainable building materials bamboo and clay will begin. This is being done in cooperative collaboration with the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and our local partner organisations BIDG and ABC. Under the guidance of … Read more

January – February 2023

An important milestone has been reached. The bamboo treatment tank was completed. The treatment serves to preserve bamboo and is therefore a prerequisite for making it usable as a sustainable building material.