Latin America

Oikocredit Förderkreis Hessen-Pfalz e. V.

Name of the Organization
Oikocredit Förderkreis Hessen-Pfalz e. V.
Contact

Bergerstraße 211
60385 Frankfurt am Main
HE
Germany

Telephone
+49 69 74221801
E-Mail
hessen-pfalz[at]oikocredit.de

Organisationstyp

SMR - Swedish Mission Council

Name of the Organization
SMR - Swedish Mission Council
Contact

Gustavslundsvägen 18 Alviks Torg
Box 14038
167 14 Bromma
Sweden

Telephone
+46 8 4536880
E-Mail
info[at]smc.global
Description of the Organization

Svenska missionsrådet (SMR) is a forum for churches and Christian organisations. Through SMR, the 35 member organisations can meet, exchange experiences and strengthen their competence. One of our main tasks is to enable NGOs in Sweden and the South to engage in development work. As part of our work for human rights we work to promote freedom of religion or belief. Swedish Mission Council is the umbrella for 35 member organisations, who have partner organisations in more than 50 countries in the world. Apart from that, one of our main partner organisation is Sida, the Swedish international development agency. Other partner organisations: Christian Council of Sweden, PMU, Church of Sweden, Digni, Danish Mission Council Development Department.

Leuphana University of Lüneburg, INFU

Name of the Organization
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, INFU
Department/Institute
INFU - Institut für Umweltkommunikation
Additional info
Campus, Gebäude 11 in der 3. Etage, Raum C 11.324
Contact

Universitätsallee 1
Postfach 2440
21335 Lüneburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 4131 677-2802
E-Mail
infu[at]leuphana.de
Description of the Organization

The Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication was founded in 1996. Today, it is part of the Faculty of Environmental Technology at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. The institute's academic staff carries out research, teaching, and knowledge-transfer activities related to environment and sustainability communication. Scientific analysis, theory elaboration, and concept development are the key components of all research projects carried out at this institute. Their objective is to promote the development of competencies at the individual, institutional, and collective levels in order to create a future based on the principle of sustainability. In the autumn of 2005, this institute was awarded the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development. The Chair's goal is to integrate the principle of sustainability into teaching activities and strengthen the institute's international orientation by establishing new cooperative ventures.

INKOTA-netzwerk

Name of the Organization
INKOTA-netzwerk
Contact

Chrysanthemenstraße 1-3
10407 Berlin
BE
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 4208202-52
E-Mail
inkota[at]inkota.de
Description of the Organization

For over 30 years, INKOTA has been an ecumenical network of development-oriented grassroots organizations, parishes, fair-trade stores, and individuals.
We align ourselves with the worldwide movement of the critics of globalization and therefore, work for a world in which the human needs and interests of all people count more than the economic interests of a privileged group. Hereby we link our support for our partner groups in the South with public awareness building vis-a-vis development issues in Germany.

Brot für die Welt - Bread for the World

Name of the Organization
Brot für die Welt - Bread for the World
Contact

Caroline-Michaelis-Straße 1
10115 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 65211-0
E-Mail
kontakt[at]brot-fuer-die-welt.de
Description of the Organization

‘Bread for the World’ has been the relief organisation of the Protestant Churches in Germany since 1959. Every year, it promotes more than 1,000 projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. ‘Bread for the World’ assists partner organisations in ‘community capacity building’. ‘Bread for the World’ stands up for the rights of people who are disadvantaged and marginalised in the globalised world. Its motto is ‘Justice for the Poor’.

For many years, ‘Bread for the World’ has focused on global education in its educational work as well. Teachers are invited to join the Arbeitskreis Pädagogik (working group for education). At the annual meetings, new classes focusing on global education are developed.

The journal Global Lernen (learning globally) is published every four months and is also available online at www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/global-lernen/. Each issue deals with a topic related to development policy and contains didactic advice and suggestions for teaching in upper secondary education. Previous issues dealt with the global financial crisis, nuclear weapons and development cooperation.

In addition, the ‘Bread for the World’ staff organises events and seminars with specialists from partner countries, creates teaching materials, holds competitions and organises school and youth campaigns – including the campaign ‘Fair Play for Fair Life’ and the nutrition campaign Niemand isst für sich allein (nobody is/eats on their own) (www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/ernaehrung). Furthermore, ‘Bread for the World’ offers further training of teachers and classroom visits.

Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim

Name of the Organization
Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim
Department/Institute
Social Welfare Work – Worldwide Church
Additional info
Bischöfliches Generalvikariat, Hauptabteilung Pastoral
Contact

Domhof 18-21
31134 Hildesheim
Germany

Telephone
+49 5121 307-229
E-Mail
weltkirche[at]bistum-hildesheim.de
Description of the Organization

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

ijgd - International Youth Community Services

Name of the Organization
ijgd - International Youth Community Services
Department/Institute
Geschäftsstelle Berlin
Contact

Glogauer Straße 21
10999 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 61203130
E-Mail
ijgd.berlin[at]ijgd.de
Description of the Organization

IJGD stands for International Youth Community Services. It is a non-profit organisation working in the field of international youth work and political education. Since 1949, IJGD has been active throughout Germany as an organisation independent from any religious or political party and recognised by the state authorities. The aim of IJGD is to forward young people's awareness of social conditions and to support the development of a feeling of social responsibility. The work of IJGD thus includes the promotion of international understanding and the reduction of prejudice between people of different nations, social backgrounds, religions and political ideas. We organise workcamps, international youth meetings, youth holiday periods in Germany, Europe and overseas as well as different trainings and seminars as further education.

In addition, IJGD is in charge of different long-term voluntary services such as the voluntary social service (FSJ), the voluntary ecological service (FÖJ) and the voluntary heritage service (FJD).

The Berlin part of IJGD, IJGD LV Berlin, has a specific focus on intercultural and inter-generation projects. In the field of the European Voluntary Service (EVS), IJGD Berlin is involved as a sending and hosting organisation. As part of our pilote project ‘voluntary services in socially deprived areas', ijgd Berlin has a growing number of EVS-placements in Berlin in socially deprived areas. This pilote project aims to further social inclusion, intercultural learning and to support small non-profit organisations and initiatives. As a sending organisation we send young German volunteers from Berlin and ist surroundings for longterm voluntary services to Europe in the frame work of EVS.

IJGD Berlin also organises midterm voluntary services in Africa, Asia and Latinamerika.

Themes of the organization

Spor Media

Name of the Organization
Spor Media
Contact

Elmegade 5, 1. th
DK 2200 Kopenhagen
Denmark

Telephone
+45 3536 0940
E-Mail
spor[at]spormedia.dk
Description of the Organization

For more than 25 years Spor Media has been engaged in international cooperation and especially in development education related to culture and media. Spor has produced and distributed various films and documentaries as well as web-based educational materials about social, political and cultural issues in Latin America, Africa and Asia to pupils and teachers in Danish schools and informal educational settings. In collaboration with young cultural groups from the Global South Spor Media is organizing cultural activities for students at all levels of the educational system , especially in rural areas where cultural exchange and Global Education are not  often on the agenda.