Church

Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim – Social Welfare Work – Worldwide Church

• Partnership program with Bolivia (information, guests, trips to meet our Bolivian partners)
• Financial support of educational work and lobbying activities related to development policy and the Worldwide Church
• Continuing education events for professionals
• Recommending guests and speakers from developing countries and eastern Europe
• Information and additional material on the "www.erlassjahr.de" (year of remission) campaign

We are an ecclesiastic organization of various parishes and groups.

Tasks and Goals:

• to raise the awareness of church communities and groups concerning developmental issues
• to support small scale projects in Tanzania aimed at sustainable development
• to establish and monitor development aid partnerships
• to carry out lobbying campaigns (e.g. concerning debt relief)
• to assist in the placement of qualified personnel
• to cooperate with relief organizations as well as with ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical NGOs

Areas of Activities:

• we maintain a partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Pare Diocese
• we monitor and carry out projects in cooperation with our partner organizations (providing water tanks, drilling for water, building corn mills, setting up solar – powered lamps, carrying out fishing projects, funding tuition costs, equipping kindergartens and infirmaries, building sanitary facilities for schools, providing bicycles for employees, musical instruments, etc.)
• we organize group visits to Tanzania
• we arrange visits of Tanzanian groups to Germany
• we place interns in Tanzania
• we carry out information events with speakers from Tanzania
• we organize educational events on development policy issues