Selected Events 2006

From left: Kjärstin Wenig, wife of Consul Wenig; Mark Wenig, Consul for Public Affairs, U.S. Consulate General Leipzig; Michael Czupalla, Landrat of Delitzsch county; Mrs. Altmann, head of Zerschnitz kindergarten; Melanie Haberland, Förderverein of "The little hoodlums"

November 1, 2006
Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig, his wife Kjärstin and Leipzig's Information Resource Center (IRC) director visited a day care center called "The little hoodlums" (Die kleinen Strolche) in the small western Saxon village of Zschernitz to meet kindergarten staff and an American English teacher, Brielle Confer. Confer, from North Carolina, started last August on a one-year experimental program to provide bilingual education to some 69 pre-school age children from Delitzsch county. Consul Wenig presented the kindergarten director with English language children’s books and announced a grant for the acquisition of English language teaching materials, while the IRC director provided brochures and the CD-ROMs about the USA. Also attending were Delitzsch county executive Michael Czupalla, the town’s mayor, representatives of the county’s Department of Youth and Social Affairs, as well as the initiators of this experimental project.