Rain forest

éducation21

éducation21

Monbijoustraße 31
3011 Bern
Switzerland

Telephone
+41 31 3210021
E-Mail
info[at]education21.ch
Description of the Organization

We support teachers in Switzerland at all levels in their daily work by giving them impulses for their lessons which are directed towards a viable development in a global society. We sell and lend over 800 tried and tested teaching aids in German, French and Italian language. We provide teacher training. We inform and advise with relation to Global Education. We are part of a network of national and international organisations having similar aims.

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Organisationstyp

Verdens Skove - Forests of the World

Verdens Skove - Forests of the World

Klostergade 34
3. sal
8613 5232 Aarhus C
Denmark

Telephone
+45 8613 5232
E-Mail
info[at]verdensskove.org
Description of the Organization

Verdens Skove is an environmental organisation working to promote sustainable use of the World’s forests, particularly the rainforests of Latin America and the native Danish forests. For more than 25 years we have been working to preserve forest resources for the benefit of nature and of local and global communities alike.

Forests of the World promotes sustainable tourism and forestry practices through innovative projects with local forest dependent communities in several Latin American countries.

The indigenous peoples of Latin America who have called the forests their home for generations have inalienable rights to those forests. In Forests of the World we know that forest conservation is not likely to be effective or sustainable, or even fair, if it happens at the expense of local, forest dependent communities. Our projects are carried out in close cooperation with indigenous peoples and local environmental organisations.

A substantive part of our work, in Denmark as well as internationally, consists of advocacy and campaigning. In Denmark, much of our work is carried out by our network of volunteers and supporters.

Themes of the organization

Partner countries

WorldGarden Witzenhausen

WorldGarden Witzenhausen
Education for sustainable development
c/o DITSL

Steinstraße 19
37213 Witzenhausen
Germany

Telephone
+49 5542 60792
E-Mail
info[at]weltgarten-witzenhausen.de
Description of the Organization

With its educational work, the WeltGarten wants to create an awareness of the connections between one's own local actions and global processes and, in doing so, work out individual possibilities for action together for a fair and sustainable interaction with each other and with our One World. As a UNESCO Decade Project, the WeltGarten is guided by the criteria of Education for Sustainable Development.

Schulwälder für Westafrika - School Forests for West Africa

Schulwälder für Westafrika - School Forests for West Africa
c/o Dr. Sam Essiamah

Brauweg 53
37073 Göttingen
Niedersachsen
Germany

Telephone
49 551 71796
E-Mail
team[at]schulwaelder.org
Description of the Organization

The association "Schulwälder für Westafrika e. V." (School Forests for West Africa) - together with the "Youth and Environment Club" in Ghana - works for the preservation of the rainforest and for a climate-friendly and healthy environment. In order to inspire pupils in Germany and Ghana for nature and its protection, the association arranges partner schools between the two countries. In this way, pupils and teachers from Germany and Ghana can work together for the forest/rainforest. Practical action promotes sustainability education and a sense of responsibility for people in other countries. In addition, pupils learn to dedicate themselves to a project in the long term. While pupils in Ghana plant and maintain trees for shady places in their schoolyards with the motto "solar lamps/ football as an incentive for tree planting", pupils in Germany start tree planting in different places. In connection with global learning, the pupils can exchange information about the living conditions in the respective other country, e.g. these topics: Climate protection (tree planting/forestation of the forest or rainforest/tree nursery), biodiversity (animals and plants), energy (solar lamps with the possibility of charging the mobile phone), health and poverty (solar lamps instead of paraffin lamps), education (computer centre in Nyakrom, environmental education materials for primary schools), climate (including seasons), consumption of resources (trees as firewood), conservation of resources (chains made of recycled paper), consumption (clothing, food and housing), children's rights.

Partner countries

Bund für Bildung - Confederation for education

Bund für Bildung - Confederation for education
Globales Lernen

Anklamer Straße 38
10115 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 1734683505
E-Mail
wegener[at]bundfuerbildung.de
Description of the Organization

The non-profit association "Bund für Bildung" translates socially relevant issues into educational projects. The focus is on issues of inclusion, participation and democracy.

Partner countries

FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken

FIS - Fairtrade Initiative Saarbrücken
c/o Peter Weichardt / Heike Zimmermann

Schumannstrasse 34
66111 Saarbrücken
Saarland
Germany

Telephone
+49 6893 801855
E-Mail
info[at]faires-saarbruecken.de
Description of the Organization

FAIR for all generations FAIR education - Our campaigns are aimed at schools, kindergartens and day-care centres (Kitas), extracurricular actors in the greater Saarbrücken area and Saarland University. Several "Fair Kitas", "Fairtrade Schools" and "Fairtrade Universities" from the greater Saarbrücken area have already been awarded. School classes and courses from the Saarbrücken region have already received the award "Fair School Class - Fair Trade Class" more than 100 times. Through our young "Fair Trade Ambassadors" as multipliers and through our wide-ranging commitment, we reach a broad public. The guiding principle of our network is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Partner countries

AAI - Afro-Asiatisches Institut Salzburg

AAI - Afro-Asiatisches Institut Salzburg

Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Telephone
+43 662 84141311
E-Mail
office[at]aai-salzburg.at
Description of the Organization

The Afro-Asian Institute Salzburg (AAI) is a non-profit organisation with close ties to the university of Salzburg. It is financed by the public funds and the Catholic Church. The aims of the AAI are to provide educational services on development policy, to enable intercultural encounters and to promote interfaith dialogue.
The AAI is a meeting place for different cultures and religions. We show different global contexts through a varied educational and cultural program in order to raise awareness of injustices and set out development policy issues and its risks in the context of globalization. Affected individuals, as well as experts from the global South have an opportunity in our organization to take the floor. Within the framework of the AAI scholarship program, students from African, Asian and Latin American countries receive financial support, as well as a personal accompaniment and take part in our educational program.

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earthlink – people & nature network

earthlink – people & nature network

Frohschammerstraße 14
80807 München
Germany

Telephone
+49 89 35652102
E-Mail
info[at]earthlink.de
Description of the Organization

With partners around the globe, earthlink specifically works for harmony between man and nature. Together with the local population, we create strategies and methods to improve the living conditions of the poor and to protect the environment. earthlink maintains socially sustainable and nature-friendly development in the context of concrete projects on site through public relations in Germany and Europe and through global networks. The involvement of locals is an important aspect for ensuring long-term success.