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Hope Foundation

Name of the Organization
Hope Foundation
Contact

Petersburger Straße 92
10247 Berlin
Germany

Telephone
+49 30 2900 7192
E-Mail
office[at]hope-found.org
Website/URL
https://www.hope-found.org
Description of the Organization

The Hope Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Germany and Cameroon. Since 2001, we have been particularly committed to women and children in Cameroon. We are active in the areas of development cooperation, health and education.

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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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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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