Björn in Botswana, Southern Africa
Mar 9th, 2007 by bjoern
This blog is run by Björn Richter, based in Botswana in Southern Africa and convinced European citizen. I am currently working for the German Development Cooperation GTZ to support the SADC-secretariat in its transboundary water-programme in Southern Africa. Therefore I am based in Gaborone (Botswana) and cooperate with all 15 member-countries in Southern Africa. Last year I finalised my master-thesis about water-governance in Southern Africa at the National University of Singapore and worked as project-manager for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Office for Regional Cooperation in Asia in regional governance projects with ASEAN and also as media-consultant for the Asia Media Information and Communication Centre all over Asia. You can contact me here in Gaborone (Botswana) by Email to bjoern.richter@briefhansa.de and via my mobile (267) 7287 93 54. I will keep you posted about my developments here at the blog and looking forward very positive about these new challenges in life.
Other blog-entries came from my stays in Afghanistan, where I was working in Summer 2007 as expert facilitator for the UNDP Seal office in Kabul to implement the first Afghan Youth Assembly in the Afghan Parliament with hundred young students. Before I was assigned for the recruitment of the Young Leaders Network at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Kabul also in this country. There are also entries from my wounderful travel between Istanbul and Cairo from 2007 where I got to know a lot about Arabic countries and their people. After having intensive experiences in journalism and journalism-project as board member of the European Youth Press, indept views from my project work for youth policy at German Parliament/European Commission and as advisor on media-policy for German Press Council and UNESCO I finished my studies of politicial sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin with an excellent diploma and will see, where the future drives me to.
And if somebody wonder about the name of the blog, it’s just the hero of the most famoust american-native book from my childhood “Harka” from Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich. :)