The School Partnership Programme

The School Partnership Programme is a thematic based school exchange programme between schools in Norway and similar schools in developing countries. The programme provides students and teachers with an opportunity to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes for participating effectively in a globalised and a culturally diversified world.

Application for 2011

Application for the Friendship North/South grant 2011 have been proceesed and an answer has been sent to the Norwegian partner.

Friendship North/South Coordinator

Mr. Peter Mathu of Joytown secondary school has been appointed as a new coodinator/advisor for Friendship North/South in East Africa. His main role is to assist  in giving guidance to the Friendship North/South network in the region. He can assist your school in practical travel arrangements especially if you are travelling through Nairobi. He can also come to your school a give advise on how best you can organise your exchange programme. He is also involved in develop a South-South programme which will be announced soon. If you need his services please send us an e-mail, sms or call with your request.  

The Nakuru Friendship North/South training workshop

Friendship North/South is a arranging a training workshop for its member in Tanzania and Kenya at Jumuia Guest House in Nakuru, Kenya from 3^rd – 6^th June 2010.

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Winners of the DIT Award 2009

The doing it together (DIT) award for 2009 has been awarded to Paarl Gymnas (South Africa) /Oslo Handelsgymnas and Dongobesh secondary school (Tanzania)/ Levanger videregående skole . The award is given in the recognition of the school's acheivement i fostering the objectives of Friendship North/South through the ELIMU school exchange programme. 

Paarl Gymnas (South Africa) /Oslo Handelsgymnas
We are glad to inform you that your partnership has been awarded the 2009 DOING IT TOGETHER award for the best joint project in the ELIMU school exchange programme. The award is given to schools that have shown excellent results that further the objectives and values of the Friendship North/South through the ELIMU exchange programme. This year’s award is granted to your partnership and Levanger/Dongobesh (Tanzania). As a token of appreciation you will receive a diploma and a cash prize of NKr 7500-. The cash prize should be used to disseminate information about your joint project either in Norway or in South Africa or both.

We found your joint project; Religion and spirituality to be relevant to the objectives and values of Friendship North/South especially in promoting dialogue and understanding across socio-cultural barriers. We are impressed by your courage to work with this value sensitive and complex issue within the limited parameters of your different socio-cultural backgrounds. In your work you managed to collaborate and work together. You sought and gained knowledge from diverse sources including the local communities of the Sami in Norway and Zulu in South Africa. The participants show that they have reflected about their own values, achieved a better perspective about other belief and in turn learnt to respect other people.Congatulations.

Dongobesh secondary school/Levanger upper secondary school

We are glad to inform you that your partnership has been awarded the 2009 DOING IT TOGETHER award for the best joint project in the ELIMU school exchange programme. The award is given to schools that have shown excellent results that further the objectives and values of the Friendship North/South through the ELIMU exchange programme. This year’s award is granted to your partnership and Oslo Handelsgymnas/Paarl gymnast (South Africa). As a token of appreciation you will receive a diploma and a cash prize of NKr 7500-. The cash prize should be used to disseminate information about your joint project either in Norway or in Tanzania or both.

We found your joint project; Nishati Bora (studies on energy) to be relevant to the objectives and values of Friendship North/South especially in promoting sustainable development. Your report shows that you have spent a considerable amount of time, effort and skills while working together to make the joint project a success. In the process we believe you have acquired knowledge about the different sources of energy and how it is used in your relevant communities. By making comparisons and documenting results you have created a resource that can be used in teaching and further experiments. The project can also be relevant to local communities around the schools. We are impressed to hear that the local community in Dongobesh has acquired skills for using biogas through Dongobesh secondary school. Congatulations.

Trainig workshops

A series of ELIMU teacher's courses is underway. The first course was launched in Uganda at Mengo secondary school, 2-3rd december 2010 and was attended by 19 teachers. We have just completed the series in Norway with courses in Oslo and Trondheim. The next courses will be in Nicaragua in April, Kenya and Tanzania in June and South Africa in September/October. More information and reports will be available soon.