Carlos Utermöhlen

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding area, to educate teenagers to communicate responsibly, respectfully and without violence through rap. For the past seven years he has been travelling to Latin American countries known for their drug cartels and violence. Other than church initiatives, Zamora's rap workshops for disadvantaged youth are frequently the only projects available for these teenagers.

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in Soyapango, social projects gradually emerged, mainly in the field of education, which were supported almost from the outset by various groups from Germany and other European countries. Even today, four years after Father Gerhard's death, the social projects continue, as do the lively contacts and exchanges with groups such as the Freundeskreis El Salvador (Friends of El Salvador) from Braunschweig.