Africa

Brücke • Le pont

Name of the Organization
Brücke • Le pont
Contact

Rue St-Pierre 12
1700 Freiburg
Switzerland

Telephone
+41 26 425515-1
E-Mail
info[at]bruecke-lepont.ch
Description of the Organization

The Program “Arbeit in Würde“ supports and accompanies Brücke Le pont with 35 development projects for  discriminated for people in the countries Togo, Benin, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia and Brazil.

Education and support of the independency are the foundations of a sustainable development. People should be able to make a living from their work and to take responsibility for family and society. They need profitable or fairly paid work and just working conditions for it.For that they need profitable or fairly paid jobs and just working conditions for it.

Brücke Le pont have been focusing on the following points:

  • Income support
  • Professional education
  • Support of labour laws

The projects promote mainly adults, but also teenagers and children. They contribute to the parents so that they can take care of their children, and promote the equal rights of woman and man. Brücke Le pont works mostly together with small and local organizations. They are close to the target population and know the social, cultural and political relations on site very well. Brücke Le pont thinks highly of the fact that in the projects participative and locally adapted methods are being applied and that the cooperation is maintained on networks. This creates synergies and raises the effectiveness. Education is the foundation of development. It strengthens the self-esteem of the people and provides the necessary knowledge for them to perform a good and profitable work.

Light for the world

Name of the Organization
Light for the world
Contact

Niederhofstraße 26
1120 Wien
Austria

Telephone
+43 1 8101300
E-Mail
info[at]licht-fuer-die-welt.at
Description of the Organization

Light for the world is an international organization that focuses on development projects for blind persons and persons with disabilities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Southeastern Europe. Light for the world works together with local partners, eye health clinics and disabled peoples organizations.

CO-OPERAID – Education for children in Africa and Asia

Name of the Organization
CO-OPERAID – Education for children in Africa and Asia
Contact

Kornhausstraße 49
Postfach
CH-8042 Zürich
Switzerland

Telephone
+41 44 3635787
E-Mail
info[at]co-operaid.ch
Description of the Organization

CO-OPERAID is a humanitarian Swiss association with its headquarters in Zurich. CO-OPERAIDis engaged in the international children’s right to education. Our projects in East Africa and Asiahelp impoverished children and young people with education and professional education. The aim of the projects is basic education for all children and the promotion of secondary and vocational education. At the same time the economic situation of the children’s and young people’s families is improved.

solivol - weltwärts mit artefact

Name of the Organization
solivol - weltwärts mit artefact
Contact

Bremsbergallee 35
24960 Glücksburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 4346 8949
E-Mail
solivol[at]artefact.de
Description of the Organization

“artifact” is a center for sustainable development and global learning in Glücksburg on the Baltic Sea. The project “solivol” offer young German adults between 18 and 28 years the possibility to learn within the scope of the developing-political voluntary service “weltwärts” and to work for a year at partner organizations in countries of East Africa. The aim of the program is the acquisition of intercultural competence and knowledge of sustainable development and local like global solution strategies on subjects like climate protection and energy production. Beside “solivol” “artefact” offers a wide range of learning offers on lastingness subjects in the German Danish border space.

Themes of the organization

GTO - German Toilet Organization

Name of the Organization
GTO - German Toilet Organization
Contact

Paulsenstraße 23
12163 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 41934344
E-Mail
post[at]germantoilet.org
Description of the Organization

The German Toilet Organization (GTO) is a non-profit NGO, which was founded in Berlin in the October of 2005. Our aim is to protect the environment and improve public health by raising awareness about and providing people with clean and sustainable toilet and wastewater treatment systems.

Pantheater

Name of the Organization
Pantheater
Contact

Deichreihe 29
25489 Haseldorf
Germany

Telephone
+49 4129 607
E-Mail
info[at]pantheater.de
Description of the Organization

The Pantheater Hamburg e. V. is a group of professional actors who perform their own plays for children, adolescents and adults all over Germany. These plays are related to development policy in our One World. The group acts in schools, cultural centres, theatres and congregations, but also at public events, such as the Church Congress, meetings on the national level, conferences, congresses, fairs, as well as at events and project weeks in the context of global learning, development policy and environmental policy.

Bookable Event: Explorations in the One World

"Explorations in the One World" are multimedia and scenic travel narratives intended to provide information and encourage commitment to various subjects in an entertaining way. The explorations in Chile, Mexico, India, South Africa, Tanzania, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil and Ghana deal with the struggle for democracy and social justice, fair trade, the situation of street children, racism, the privatisation of drinking water and solar power. They also deal with dignity, identity and much more.

This event includes the performance of an act and a subsequent dialogue with the audience. Moreover, the actors offer to participate in follow-up workshops.

HochVier - Society for political and cultural education

Name of the Organization
HochVier - Society for political and cultural education
Contact

Schulstraße 9
14482 Potsdam
Germany

Telephone
+49 331 5813210
E-Mail
hochvier[at]gmx.de
Description of the Organization

In our charitable organisation, experts on educational matters and coaches from the Brandenburg and Berlin area are working on the following topics:

  • adult and youth education in politics (development policy, ecology, development of democracy, civic participation, questions concerning human rights, migration, etc.)
  • intercultural communication
  • mediation and conflict management, mediation training and parental training
  • organisation counselling
  • anti-discrimination training
  • study travels focusing on political and cultural matters and related to natural history in (Eastern) Germany and Eastern Europe

In terms of language and culture, we have gathered experiences and established contacts particularly with (Southeastern) Europe, Turkey, the Arab States, Israel, Latin America and Africa.

Vétérinaires sans Frontières Belgium

Name of the Organization
Vétérinaires sans Frontières Belgium
Contact

Avenue des Arts 7-8
1210 Bruxelles
Belgium

Telephone
0032 2 539 09 89
E-Mail
f.burette[at]vsf-belgium.org
Description of the Organization

Les vétérinaires se mobilisent pour aider les populations vivant dans les régions les plus pauvres du monde. Dans beaucoup de pays, le bétail est une source essentielle de nourriture de qualité. Et pourtant, la médecine vétérinaire est souvent inexistante, si bien que le danger d'épidémie n'est jamais très loin. Là-bas, si le troupeau est malade, c'est le village qui meurt. Voilà pourquoi l'aide médicale vétérinaire sur le terrain est une nécessité.

Depuis mars 2007, notre ONG en collaboration avec VSF France, SIVTRo-VSF-Italia et VETAID, mettent en place un projet d'éducation au développement (DEP) financé par la Commission Européenne. Programmé pour trois ans, ce projet vise à informer et sensibiliser les publiques étudiants (agronomes et vétérinaires), politiques et agricoles (les professionnels de l'agriculture) sur la problématique de l'agriculture paysanne dans une optique de relation Nord Sud en se nourrissant de l'expérience de VSF sur la terrain.

Themes of the organization