Volunteer program

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.

AFS is an international NGO with one of the largest volunteer networks worldwide. AFS offers opportunities for intercultural learning, the chance to develop the knowledge and skills to build a more peaceful and just
world.

AFS Nederland gives Dutch High School students the opportunity to attend High School abroad, live with a host family and learn about a culture for a semester or a year. And for students from all over the world to come to the Netherlands, to stay with host families who open their hearts and homes to learn about different cultures. We also offer programs for people 18 to 25, they get the chance to spend 6 months doing volunteer work abroad. AFS is one of the leading international organisations in the field of intercultural learning and offers exchange programs worldwide, to its more than 60 partner countries. All partner organisations have a volunteer network which is their main support, a professional staf and a volunteer board.

ADRA Serbia has played important role in the siege of Sarajevo in 1995, and the subsequent relief activities in the Balkans region. Presently, apart from being an efficient emergency aid agency, ADRA Serbia focuses on the developmental issues of,

1. fighting domestic violence
2. children and youth with special needs
3. inclusion of the Roma community
4. environment

ADRA Serbia is also supporting the newly founded offices of ADRA Bosnia and Herzegovina, and ADRA Macedonia.