The involved workers were the respective participants' employer, son's nursery teacher, hostel support worker, university counsellor, youth worker and prison officer.
· Principals, teachers, and hostels do not understand the project equally nor the specialised roles they are expected to play.
In 1912, Richard Schirrmann, a teacher, created the hostel industry at the medieval Altena Castle in western Germany; the hostel is still operating today.
· Like the regional education officers mentioned above, many teachers (particularly males) and hostel workers do not understand the objectives of the project nor the initial school-based interventions.
In the early 1900s Richard Schirrmann, a German teacher, opened the first hostel in Burg Altena in the Rhine Valley (it's still open for business).
He successfully petitioned the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to declare the lake a protected wetland, built an island there for bird nesting, helped run seminars to educate local villagers in ecotourism, and converted an abandoned teachers' dormitory into an ecotourist hostel — although, when we visited the village, we found the hostel boarded up and the windows broken.
I attended a superb all-boys Catholic high school from the age of 11 to 18, and we went out with our Catholic teachers to camps, marches, youth hostels; still, nothing happened.
For the OSEP, the following interviews and discussions were held: 4 community focus groups (included parents and children); 4 community mobiliser interviews; 3 principal interviews; 3 pairs of teachers from lower primary phase; 3 hostel matron interviews; and 7 project partner interviews (included MBESC Regional Education Officer, WIMSA, OST, UNICEF/Namibia, and On-the-Way Training Centre).
At a hostel, Peter and his teacher come across Felicitas, Katharina's pregnant friend.
We also meet a hostel worker, and the teacher who encountered the teenage Joanne and took a wrong decision.
