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German AFS Intercultural Programs

Name of the Organization
German AFS Intercultural Programs
Contact

Friedensallee 48
22765 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone
+49 40 399222-38
E-Mail
info[at]afs.de
Website/URL
https://www.afs.de
Description of the Organization

AFS International is one of the world's most experienced and largest non-profit providers of youth exchange and intercultural learning. Originally founded by volunteer ambulance drivers, the American Field Service has grown over the past 70 years into a global community with over 60 country organisations and partners.In addition to school exchanges and volunteer service, we also offer our volunteers a wide range of education and training. We also offer workshops in schools on the topics of racism, sustainability and intercultural learning.

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CGE - Centre For Global Education

Name of the Organization
CGE - Centre For Global Education
Contact

9 University Street
Belfast
BT7 1FY
United Kingdom

Telephone
+44 2890 241 879
E-Mail
info[at]centreforglobaleducation.com
Website/URL
https://www.centreforglobaleducation.com
Description of the Organization

Challenges dominant stereotypes and commonly held perceptions of developing countries which are prevalent in our society. It aims to use education as a means of challenging the causes of poverty and inequality in both local and global contexts by working with all sectors of education. This organization runs serveral projects in the area of development education; i.e. a Development Education magazine, a website on Global Citizenship for the Northern Irish curriculum, Community Youth Projects in Belfast. Furthermore, the Centre provides a well-assorted resource library including teaching materials, books on development issues and box files on countries and topics to support students, teachers and lecturers with their work.

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Mission One World Neuendettelsau

Name of the Organization
Mission One World Neuendettelsau
Department/Institute
Department for Development and Politics
Contact

Hauptstraße 2
91564 Neuendettelsau
Germany

Telephone
+49 9874 9-0
E-Mail
entwicklung.politik[at]mission-einewelt.de
Website/URL
https://mission-einewelt.de
Description of the Organization

The KED was founded in 1970 by the Lutheran Church of Bavaria with its main focus on promoting education on development policy in Bavaria. The KED`s educational work focuses on helping people understand the structures and relations that exist in our globalized world. It also tries to contribute to the creation of a just and more humane society according to the idea of One World. The KED`s aim is to make people
aware of the problems and the potential of their partners all over the world in order to enable them to act on the basis of greater awareness.

Providing information and promoting education through:

  • A library and database related to development policy on the Internet.
  • The lending of books, magazines, brochures, educational and adult education material on topics related to global learning (slides, videos, CD-ROMS, games dealing with development policy, boxes with information material about Brazil, oranges, cocoa, toys, soccer, coffee.)
  • The lending of fully prepared exhibitions (People Without Land movement in Brazil; interactive coffee tour; AIDS – let`s get away from pigeonholing.)
  • Advice and continuing education for professionals.
  • Seminars, lectures, presentations, talks and discussions on issues related to development policy.
  • Activities and information desks at church events, local church congresses, and similar events.
  • Study assistance program for foreign students (STUBE - Studienbegleitprogramm).
  • Work related to Brazil: assistance for the partnership work in Bavaria.

Cooperation with initiatives and networks:

  • Koalition gegen Straflosigkeit (alliance against impunity). Justice and truth for the victims of the Argentinian military dictatorship.
  • Fair Play / Fair Toys – humane working conditions in the toy industry.
  • Clean Clothes Campaign – humane working conditions in the textile industry.
  • Development needs debt relief – www.erlassjahr.de
  • Fair Handeln Bayern (Fair Trade Bavaria).
  • Eine Welt Netzwerk Bayern (One World network Bavaria).
  • Landesarbeitskreis Bayern "Schule für Eine Welt" (Bavarian state network: "school for One World").
  • Runder Tisch "Globales Lernen" (global learning).

Public relations work:

  • Biennial newsletter,
  • Biennial supplement in the Bavarian Sunday newspapers
  • Regular email newsletter.

Financial assistance for projects and financing of activities related to development policy in Bavaria.

International program for volunteers:
Going abroad for one year. Ecumenical learning in Latin America. Program for volunteers between 18 and 27 years of age.

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AGEE - Working Group on Development Anthropology

Name of the Organization
AGEE - Working Group on Development Anthropology
Contact

Sinziger Straße 4
53424 Remagen
Germany

Telephone
+49 228 6899870
E-Mail
agee[at]gmx.net
Website/URL
https://www.ag-entwicklungsethnologie.de
Description of the Organization

The working group organises conferences and lectures on development policy issues, in particular on ethics in development cooperation.

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IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War / Physicians in Social Responsibility

Name of the Organization
IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War / Physicians in Social Responsibility
Contact

Körtestraße 10
10967 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 6930244
E-Mail
kontakt[at]ippnw.de
Website/URL
https://www.ippnw.de

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