ENCYMO CONFERENCE – Wismar, Germany, June 13-15, 2003
ENCYMO - European Network of Children and Youth Mentoring Organisations, held its third European conference in Wismar, Germany, June 13-15, 2003. Big Friends for Youngsters (Wismar BBBS Program), the German Children & Youth Foundation (Berlin), and German Red Cross (Wismar) were hosts to some 40 mentoring program coordinators from Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, and Northern Ireland. Randolph Granzer of France, ENCYMO coordinator, served as the conference chairman.
The Arsenal – 1700 – was the conference site – one of the few testimonies to the Swedish architectural style still remaining in Wismar.
Eberhard Wiedemann – City official and Red Cross Board Member – greets the conferees.
(l to r) Randolph Granzer, Josiane Granzer, and Eberhard Wiedemann.
Jorg
Ropcke, Big Friends for Youngsters Coordinator in Wismar, reviews the
conference activities.
Tove Laursen, Director, Borns Vokensvenner in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Interpreters from Cologne - in English, French and German
(l to r) Eberhard Wiedemann; the Wismar Deputy Mayor; Dagmar McGill, Executive Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters International; Andreas Zieske, Coordinator, Big Friends for Youngsters
Conferees had many opportunities to network
Dr. Gerd Zielenkiewitz, Prasident der Burgerschaft,
being thanked by Randolph Granzer for the champagne reception in the
Municipal Building’s historic Rathauskeller
A musical evening
An afternoon of small group tours of historic Wismar.
