NGO

Project: Water is life -More knowledge for Malawi
Our long-term cooperation with our project partner in Malawi led us to the funding programme AusbildungWeltweit (Training worldwide) run by the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and to a new approach for us. The funding programme AusbildungWeltweit (www.ausbildung-weltweit.de) enabled our trainees and our partner’s training centre outside the European Union to get to know each other and hence to improve their professional international competence and professional development opportunities. As from April 2019 a trainer for plumbing, heating and air conditioning installation from Rostock will go to our partner’s centre in rural Benga in the Nkhotakota District of Malawi to support the following:
– Installing the water supply and sewage disposal equipment
– Supervising the installation the sanitary installations (pit latrine, compost latrine, flush toilets/toilets with water)
– The installation of an aquaponic system as well as
– Training and informing those responsible for maintenance measures.

The idea to install an aquaponic system was developed by our partner institution in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Marine Biotechnology and Cell Technology (EMB) in Lübeck. Aquaponic is a process that connects the technology of fish breeding using aquaculture technology with the cultivation of crops. In an aquaponic system there is always a combination of a closed system for breeding fish and a hydroponic system for growing plants such as vegetables and herbs. The excrement from the fish serves as nutrition for the plants. The usually happens through an automatic pumping system. The orientation course for the construction of the aquaponic system came from the Fraunhofer Institute on 5.12.2018. By the end of the preparatory afternoon those concerned were convinced that the trainees would be able to carry out the installation process. It is good that scientific knowledge can be converted into something useful in real life.

Abacus e.V.
Kontaktperson: Brit Hartmann
+49(0) 172 390 048 9
brit.hartmann@web.de

– we enable and help with the organisation and financing of gifted and talented young people from Africa to study at a university in Germany
– we take part in small-scale development projects in Africa
– we promote dialogue between Africans and Europeans and offer information as well as publicity.
– we enable German students to have work experience in Africa.
The association Africa’s Renaissance and Redevelopment e.V. was founded in 2005 in Greifswald following Dr. med. J. Fanghänel’s initiative. There are 30 members. We work on a voluntary basis and finance our activities through subscriptions and donations.

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We are strong when we cooperate; with the example of Vila São Judas Tadeu, a poor district in Brazil we work for the environment, to increase environmental protection and raise income. This Brazilian -German environmental protection project aims to show how well an area of the developed city of Porto Alegre, which has poor infrastructure, can be a role model for environmental protection and in the use of renewal resources. In this project there are several tasks to solve e.g. an improvement in the local waste management, the installation of a photovoltaic solar power system to generate electricity from solar energy; but also to raise awareness amongst the local population regarding local environmental protection. One focus are the workshops with children and young people where mosaics are created out of building rubble with a female artist. In addition we want to set up contacts between a German school, the association and the university so that we can spread the ideas regarding environmental protection as well as to initiate a lively exchange of ideas beyond the country’s boundaries. There is only one world in which we live whose resources we can protect better when we cooperate. We have involved various stakeholders to improve the chances of success: in Brazil the PURCS University and the association AMOVITA; in Germany the consultancy firm envitepro GmbH and the Industry’s Training Institute gGmbH

Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft gGmbH
Kontaktperson: Dr. Sylvia Neu
+49(0) 3847 66 304, +49(0) 152 219 67 362
neu@bildungswerk-wirtschaft.de

www.bdw-mv.de

Since 2012 the trombone choir of the Johanneskirchen community in Greifswald has had international brass projects with trombone choirs in South Africa, Namibia and Japan.

“We have a common dream: to connect people who have fun and joy in making music, who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour and are eager to travel. In being on the way, getting to know other countries and ways of thinking and sharing these experiences we see an important contribution to the growing together of nations”.

www.brass-on-tour.de

Our association is involved in this small west African country and wants to help the friendly, gentle people there to live better in a meaningful way. In the meantime we have longstanding experience. We have learnt a lot about the different cultures and we have also learnt about ourselves. It was often not so easy. We had to dismiss some of our romantic ideas. We are a small association which makes it easier for the revenues and outgoings to stay transparent. If you would like to support us in our work please contact us.

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This foundation has set out the following aims in its constitution:

• Promotion of the culture and mutual understanding through an exchange between the cultures
• Promotion of international understanding especially between African people and Mecklenburg West-Pomerania
• Promotion and improvement of the coexistence of local people and Africans in our federal state
• Promotion of a global way of thinking
• Promotion of democracy and tolerance
To achieve these aims the association has faced up to the following tasks:
The members of the association are mainly active in Mecklenburg West-Pomerania.
The association wants to prepare events which make people here more aware of the cultural, social, economic and ecological conditions in the Africans’ home countries along with and with support from their cultures.
The association wants to contribute to informing and extending local people’s knowledge about Africa, its people and its culture.
The association sees itself as a bridge between different cultures in West Africa and Germany.
The association is active in aiding humanitarian support in crisis areas in Africa.
In addition the association is involved in initiating and assisting economic contacts and the exchange of products and information between companies in Mecklenburg West-Pomerania and in West Africa.

www.couleurs-afrik.de

DAZ e.V. is a charitable association whose aim is to help the people in Togo with their fight against poverty; in school education, studies and professional training both materially and financially; as well as in cooperation with partner organisations in Togo to assist in the realisation of future projects there. The main projects, among others, include the funding of school buildings, school dinners and the availability of grants and stipends, the extension of agro-ecology, full-time care of orphans, large-scale reafforestation projects, beekeeper training, clean water installations and solar energy projects.

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With the support of Diên Hông e.V., the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V.) took part in the (DZNE) Rostock started a partnership with the “Clinic of 30 April” in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam in 2017. Based on the exchange and training with the Rostock experts, the Vietnamese partners set themselves the goal of establishing a memory outpatient clinic. The joint activities focused on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia as well as the education and training of patients and their families.

www.dzne.de

Get to know the world and do good at the same time. This international voluntary service offers just that. Working in schools, orphanages, establishments for those with special needs or hospitals not only helps where the work is done but also widens ones own cultural and linguistic horizons. There are spare places in:

CHILE – working with municipal social centres
TOGO – working in nurseries, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing, environmental project, a documentary film project
GHANA – working in schools, orphanages, hospitals, teaching first aid
PERU – working with municipal social centres, in care centres for the elderly, in primary schools
ITALY – working in an ark, working in the Goethe institute
ISRAEL – working in a hospital, nursery and with those who have autistic tendencies
POLAND -German-Polish Montessori School/ nursery, working in a care home

You receive
– Accommodation, full board and pocket money
– international insurance
– preparatory and follow-up seminar
– support seminar in the country of assignment
– pedagogical support and advice
– if applicable travel costs within the host country
– if applicable a subsidy for vaccination costs
– acknowledgement from the organisation that this assignment is voluntary work experience and a gap year or semester before studying

DRK Soziale Freiwilligendienste M-V gGmbH
Kontaktperson: Britta Erhart
+49(0) 385 593 782 283
b.erhart@drk-mv.de

www.drk-freiwillig-mv.de

The Eckart Schwerin Foundation introduces itself here.
It was just a visit. At first that shocked him and then it forced him to act. Give children power. That is what he wanted. In Tanzania. The education of children and young people was close to Eckart Schwerin’s heart. His first visit developed into an eight year long voluntary involvement in the Pare Diocese in Tanzania. His project ‘Schools in Tanzania’ developed out of that. He dedicated all his energy to this project. Right up to the end. His life’s circle closed for ever on 30.4.2019. We lost our project leader. What is even sadder is that an endearing, ambitious and generous man has left us for ever. Professor Dr. Eckart Schwerin ensured that his projects would continue. So on 16.7.2009 the Eckart Schwerin Foundation was founded.
The project has been working in five secondary schools in North Tanzania since 2001. The background to this are the extremely limited circumstances within the schools. Several projects have been completed since then. Training buildings, dormitories and washrooms were either built or renovated; science equipment has been acquired as well as text books bought. The computer rooms are also of great importance. They have been installed in all of the schools to improve the quality of the teaching. Apart from this the Grammar school in Wittenburg has a partnership with the Usangi Girls Secondary School in the North Pare mountains. This is monitored and supported by the foundation. It was possible to plan and carry out specific short and long term projects between the partner schools. The foundation receives financial support from sponsors and help from a voluntary working team which travels to Tanzania every year to follow up current projects and to plan future ones. All the political, economic and natural challenges that had to be faced have been successfully overcome over the past ten years and more.

Eckart Schwerin-Stiftung
Kontaktperson: Michael Fischer
+49(0) 176 432 03 000
projekt@schulen-in-tansania.de

www.schulen-in-tansania.de

FINC is a relatively new nature conservancy foundation based in Greifswald. It carries out measures for nature conservancy and sustainable land use. The foundation’s main focus of activities is the preservation of original natural areas as well as a sustainable use of cultivated land. This institution was founded in 2015 by Sebastian Schmidt who was previously the managing director of the Michael Succow Foundation. FINC has a particular focus on countries in transition in particular in those where the political and social conditions are rapidly changing; where these changes offer the opportunity and the mission to protect the biodiversity at the same time. ‘Change through rapprochement’ can be achieved through international nature conservancy cooperation and generate islands of peace. FINC develops and supports projects in this spirit which contain traditional man to nature relationships and have retained the natural value of unspoilt areas and through this strengthen the local identity and civil society. We are always open to new ideas and input. Although the I.R. Iran is the main focus of FINC’s activities there are no limits to where projects can take place. According to FINC successful conservancy depends mainly on persuasive personalities and it is not just on the geographical, legal or political factors that play a role. There is currently a project in the I.R. Iran aimed at developing participatory nature conservancy areas. In India there is a close cooperation with Sahyawicklung where forest areas in West India are to be protected.

FINC Foundation gGmbH
Kontaktperson: Sebastian Schmidt
+49 (0) 383 444 86 181
info@finc-foundation.org

www.finc-foundation.org

The association Friends of Arusha is based in Woldegk (Mecklenburg West-Pomerania). We support the Maasai on Mount Meru, finance preschools, teacher training, water supplies and have built a small dispensary. We focus on self-reliance. That means that we collect money und in cooperation with the Maasai decide on how these funds should be used and how the projects can be carried out.

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The Cluj Foundation
The „Fundatia de Caritate Transilvania“ in Cluj, is a foundation which supports those with special needs and is led by Dr. Dana Vasilescu on an unpaid basis. A school for mentally and physically handicapped children was built near Cluj step by step under her direction. Fifty-five children attend this school which offers different kinds of therapy such as riding therapy, music therapy as well as therapy with different kinds of animals. As the parents have to pay for the therapy we support them because most of them are not able to bear these costs. We support this annually with a sum of 2,000 €.

Recreation Holiday Centre Porumbacu
Martha Samartinean works with children in Medias. She regularly organises summer camps with her husband and grown up children. Every year 120 children who come from particularly poor families from different regions in Rumania are invited. Their nationality or religion play no role. Apart form that there is a camp for the elderly and children from families with many children are invited to a weekend away in school time. A suitable holiday home was bought with our support which has been especially converted for this purpose. We cant to continue to support this project by financing necessary materials, transport costs as well as food supplies. Our association currently supports this project with 8,200 Euros annually.

‘Blue Cross’ Sura Mica
The house ‘Nazareth’ was opened in 1993 by the ‘Association for the Helpers for Alcoholic Addicts’. The new therapy centre has been completed and has been in use since 2014. Now thirty male addicts can be admitted. The old building is now no longer in use and is in need of repair. The rehabilitation centre has made a name for itself and now works under the aegis of the ‘Blue Cross in Rumania’. The running costs are covered by:
• 70 % Co- payment by those concerned
• 10 % the institution through money earned from agriculture, a cycle repair workshop and apple pressing.
• 20 % Donations mainly from Germany and Switzerland
The institution has good therapeutic results and keeps in touch with those who were once there. It is the first of its kind in Rumania. We really hope that it can continue its work even though there are financial problems. Our association currently supports this project with 5,000 Euros annually.

The association is recognised as being benevolent and charitable and is entitled to issue charitable donation receipts. We are also very happy to receive commodity donations which can handed in every first Thursday in the month from 4.30 to 5.30 p.m.

Freundeskreis Osteuropa e.V.
Kontaktperson: Dorothee Kellermann
+49(0) 387 428 954
Dorothee.Kellermann@t-online.de

What we do
Grüner Grashalm e.V. fosters intercultural understanding and cooperation through outdoor education. Over the last 20 years we have provided young people from across Europe and further afield the opportunity to participate in training courses, youth exchanges and adventure projects in Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, France, and Germany. We develop team building skills, communication methods and integration strategies. We promote democratic values and tolerance amongst young people of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds, and are currently a receiving organisation for EVS volunteers. Our activities include climbing, rafting, hiking, skiing, sailing, sea-kayaking and biking as well as music, theatre and dance. We believe that taking participants outside their ‘comfort zone’ – whether this be physical, emotional or cultural – enriches their personal development.

www.gruenergrashalm.org

The initiative originated from a spontaneous action at the beginning of the 1990s. In the former Soviet republics, entire districts were built for the returning soldiers of the Red Army. In 1994, the first aid transport took place, which was actually intended for a children’s home outside the city of Lida. However, as the delivery of the relief supplies was problematic, the items were handed over to the social welfare office of the city of Lida. This contact has been maintained to this day. Medications, bandages, wheelchairs and other medical equipment are delivered directly to the hospital of the city of Lida, which is responsible for the entire district (about 150,000 inhabitants). In the meantime there is a cooperation with psychiatry, where beds and medical equipment are needed. We bring children’s things, toys and hygiene articles to the children’s home and the children’s asylum. The local schools have already received new tables, benches and chairs. The rest of the cargo, especially the textiles, goes to the social welfare office of the city administration, where they are forwarded to needy families. In autumn, the association for the disabled receives clothing as well as wheelchairs and walkers. Many local companies support this relief campaign.

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Even today we pinch ourselves to make sure it’s true. We really met each other. Met young people from the Republic of Togo. We met in Schwerin and on the Atlantic. Looking for what we have in common, for what connects us. A successful search as was often the case in previous years; ten of which were in France another in Russia and three in Mongolia. Forget everything that separates you, that makes you different. Be consistent – listen.
Young people from west African Togo and from Mecklenburg West-Pomerania met for a fortnight in the youth hostel in Flessenow on the banks of the lake in Schwerin in the summer of 2017. The contents and activities were theatre, working with film, visual arts, music and trips. Tears flowed with the goodbyes. In between closeness, time, sympathy, depth. Then in October the return visit in the Gulf of Guinea. Off again in 2019 accompanied by an international conference where people from America, Asia, Africa and Europe took part. That was not bad – the region will get a bit more attention world wide, that is outside M-V. We have promised to return to Lomé when the first students graduates from the university. Then we will initiate a bi-national project. We are currently working on further youth culture projects with partners and interested institutions in Benin and Uganda.

Internationales Kinder- und Jugendkulturzentrum Schwerin e.V.
Kontaktperson: Holger Reschke
+49 (0) 385 581 56 99
kontakt@sdkev.de

www.sdkev.de

The Michael Succow Foundation is an operational foundation that is active both nationally and internationally. It works in transition countries in the east. (Azerbeijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia) in the development and protection of National parks and biosphere reserves.

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The main aims of our association are to improve education and training and to secure incomes. These aims encompass school education and professional training in our project areas as well as intercultural education in Germany. Then secure incomes in our project area are a crucial foundation for ensuring families’ survival. Then he who can live in safety at home does not need to flee.
But we are also active in Germany in a number of areas especially in intercultural education; we offer talks, exhibitions, discussion groups etc.

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We are a group of people with different backgrounds who volunteer under the auspices of AWO Schwerin-Parchim local association. We are supported by helpers, sponsors and donors. In Gambia a good knowledge of English is a requirement for a successful school career. There are, however, only a few pre-schools that offer English. So we decided to offer support to a pre-school in Fajikunda in 2009. Friends from Togo called the fact to attention that there are similar problems in Togo. So together we decided to support a pre-school in Koumondè in central Togo.

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Nirro = Life. That is our association’s motto.
To give hope to those people who live in extreme poverty. It means a great deal for parents when their children can attend a school, especially when in Ethiopia they are too poor to pay for the school fees, the compulsory school uniform and school text books.
We experience great joy when young people and their parents who have been supported by our association have been able to study or to get a professional training. Their perspectives are not dominated by hopelessness.
It is also important for us to help those people with medical treatment who otherwise would not be able to receive this treatment. We also help extremely needy families and widows.
We thank God that we are able to carry out this work with his help. Our association consists of a group of members and a larger group of supporters. Our chairperson, Teshome Toaspern, was born in Ethiopia and is our facilitator. There is also a further group of friends of the association which supports our work and even makes it possible.

Nirro = Leben e.V.
Kontaktperson: Teshome Toaspern
+49(0) 387 423 851
nirro.leben@gmx.de

www.nirro-leben.de

The project – Education without borders
We are convinced that people’s ability to learn and act across continents is the linchpin to change towards a sustainable way of life is. The prerequisite to achieve this is to be able to put oneself in other people’s shoes even when they live on the other side of the world.
In 2013 a special exchange programme with the motto ‘education without borders’ came about between the associations Ökohaus e.V. Rostock and CICEANA, A.C. from Mexico City. This cooperation project was particularly aimed at young people from both associations who were involved in running global education training projects and workshops in schools. In these exchanges new perspectives and methods on themes including climate change, flight and nutrition were gained to help improve their educational work. Beyond that we questioned how political processes in each of the countries work and how our worlds are connected. A global identity can emerge.

Facts
• Around 30 dedicated educational trainers from Mexico City and Rostock
• Exchange of methods and knowledge, mutual training, regular virtual meetings (Skype), materials production, projects with school classes, web conferences with external experts, trans-media storytelling, common online platforms, skill sharing with other NGOs
• Developing new methodological and pedagogical tools related to education for sustainable development
• Learning from each other using participatory methods
• Lessons learnt by the trainers transferred to other levels of society
• Around 17,000 students are reached by the events in schools annually.
Further information: www.learningacrossborder.org

Ökohaus e.V.
Kontaktperson: Jessica Weiß
+49(0) 381 45 44 09, +49(0) 381 45 59 41
bildung@oekohaus-rostock.de

www.oekohaus-rostock.de

The Osteuropa-Freundschaftsgesellschaft is an independent, party-politically independent and non-profit association for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The work of the members is carried out exclusively on an honorary basis. The aim of the society is to work throughout the federal state for the continuation and maintenance of traditional friendly relations and contacts with the peoples of the former Soviet Union.

To the constant contents of our work belong e.g.
– International youth camps with participants from Eastern and Western Europe in Mecklenburg – Western Pomerania and German – Russian youth camps in Russia (partly in cooperation with the German War Graves Commission) under the motto “Work for Peace” with joint care of German and Soviet war graves or work on child care facilities and socio-cultural meeting centres.
– the care of children and adolescents from the Shodino/Belarus region (Chernobyl zone) with health problems with the support of our members and many citizens of the district of Güstrow
– an exchange of children and youth between Grevesmühlen and Lida/Belarus as well as the maintenance of permanent contacts between people of both cities
– Regular aid shipments of the population of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg to Belarus with the participation of our members.
– Book readings, concerts, lectures, discussion rounds, meetings

www.osteuropa-freundschaftsgesellschaft.de

Everything began when eight young people said that they wanted to do something for children from their home in the heart of Mecklenburg and they, as friends, didn’t want to lose sight of each other. As a result the first Power On camp took place in 2014. This is a fixture in 100 local children’s and 45 young people’s calendar. In addition there is a youth building camp, an exchange with Tanzania and South Africa, a community garden where the vegetables for the camps grow. There is also the Active Youth concept where young people learn how they can fight for their interests. In Power on! encountering and meeting is everything. We bring people of different generations, religions, and cultures together. As a young team we want to bring back courage, belief, hope and confidence into our countryside and to collectively build a future worth living in accordance with Agenda 2030. Communicating our values and work is extremely important for us so we are active with professional media in the social networks.

Power on e.V.
Kontaktperson: Eric Klausch
Leitung@PowerOn-org.com
Wundergarten@PowerOn-org.com
INTA@PowerOn-org.com (Tansaniaprojekt)
INSA@PowerOn-org.com (Südafrikaprojekt)
Kindercamp@PowerOn-org.com
Media@PowerOn-org.com
KJA@PowerOn-org.com

www.poweron-org.com

The friends of Rostock and Panajachel was founded in the Town Hall on 23rd January 2019. Twelve interested people from Rostock and the area nearby took part in the meeting to bolster a twin town partnership between the town on the Atitlán Lake with a number of projects. Planned are student exchanges, educational trips and possibly building a full-scale replica of a Maya boat. Further emphasis is laid on environmental and trade projects on a fair trade basis.

www.pro-arte-rostock.de

School for Africa
In November 2017 Rostock’s City Run e.V. laid the foundation stone for a new extension building of the Maasai College in the middle of the Maasai area near Arusha. That means that in addition to the 60 boys and girls even more can now take part in education projects. Over the next few years Rostock’s City Run e.V. in cooperation with the Hubert & Renate Schwarz Foundation wants to invest a large amount of the donations in the college and a primary school. The sportsmen and sportswomen of Rostock have now found an important partner for their projects in the Gymnasium Reutershagen. The initiator of the project, Roman Klawun, said ‘The students in Rostock are very dedicated and help us with the communication with Africa and also have their own projects there.’ The founder and owner of one of the most successful sport and event agencies in the region sees a further advantage. ‘The young people both in Tanzania and here in Rostock soon realise that a lot can be achieved through using one’s own initiative and motivation.’ In the first year of the project 10,000 Euros could be raised for the college extension. Now investments are being made into solar systems, computer technology and sport facilities. An online shop is being set up to market t-shirts ‘Design made in Tanzania’. ‘The students should realise that they can develop the project further with their own ideas and activities’, says Janet Weigel a teacher at the gymnasium (grammar school) and a representative of the student association in the school in Reutershagen. Her colleague and sport teacher Nora von Lukowicz knows that the city run in Rostock and its associated sponsorships have really motivated the students and created enthusiasm. ‘ As soon as the Rostock flag along with Arusha’s town symbol had been handed over and then hung up in our school, there was no stopping us. We are the first school with a school we sponsor in Tanzania’, said the involved teacher. The association Rostocker Citylauf e.V is committed to starting the new school building.’ We want to succeed in achieving long-term support along with our partners. The same goes for the students in the Maasai College in Tanzania and in Reutershagen.’ explains Roman Klawun from the Rostock City Run Association.

Rostocker Citylauf e.V.
Kontaktperson: Roman Klawun
+49(0) 172 38 90 776, +49(0) 381 3756920
info@rostocker-citylauf.de

www.schule-fuer-afrika.com

Sisi Pamoja is Swahili and means ‘we collaborate’.
This association has a few chosen educational projects on the island of Pemba which lies off the coast of Tanzania. It has existed for ten years. The chairperson Helen Paul has lived and worked for several years on Pemba and its neighbour Zanzibar and still has close contacts to the ministries and is relatively familiar with the culture and the needs of the people there. Our motto is also well-known in Tanzania ‘Elimu ni Ufunguo wa maisha’ – education is the key to life. So our work concentrates on educational projects. Sustainable education.
We support a nursery school ‘Star Nursery’ which lies in the centre of the main town on Pemba, Chake Chake, since the beginning. We have a sponsorship project for orphans and children from one parent families who attend the nursery as they usually have great financial difficulties. We have recently financed the building of new toilets, gates and a large water tank and electric pump as the water supply to the town is extremely sporadic. We also help with materials and hope to support the extension of the school as the number of students has increased rapidly as a result of the high quality of the teaching.
Schools are only as good as the teachers and their teaching. So we had trained English teachers for pre-primary for 6 years and then decided on an English trainer training programme which we have carried out for the last 5 years in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. We are proud of our trainers and have now involved the local advisors in the programme.
A further project is on an isolated small island which can only be reached by using a dugout canoe. We work in cooperation with another locally based association called Community Forests Pemba. We are trying to raise environmental awareness and carried out a mangrove planting competition for the students. The island lives from fishing and over-fishing is a great threat to their livelihoods. The youngsters, however, go fishing rather than going to the school on the island. Also in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education we support a class set up by the ministry for truants by paying a salary for the voluntary teachers as well as uniforms for the students – which are compulsory in Tanzania. There are around 25 students in the class, the majority of whom are male. We are continuing the mangrove project as well as garden project to grow vegetables to sell.
We also work closely with the Gymnasium am Sonnenberg in Crivitz and have had a successful exchange visits to and from the school in Msuka in north Pemba. The Diesterweg Schule in Hagenow also has a partner school on another small island Mako’ongwe in Pemba with our support.
The other branch of our work is intercultural awareness for students here in Mecklenburg and over the past 10 or more years we have carried out over 100 project days in different kinds of schools form nursery schools, schools for children with special needs to grammar schools as well as with teachers and adults. We always welcome new challenges.

Sisi Pamoja – Gemeinsam mit Pemba Island e.V.
Kontaktperson: Helen Paul
helenpaul@hotmail.de

www.sisi-pamoja.de

The successful self-help building activities in a South African township near Port Elizabeth which had been started in the previous year was continued in a three week long practical workshop in February 2018.
An interdisciplinary student group, along with students from the local Nelson Mandela University and the PE College, built a house according a plan which they had already designed as an extension of a typical local house within the state supported building project for needy families. The prototype uses materials that can be found locally and using simple techniques and tools which leave room for the local people’s creative ideas for adequate and aesthetic domiciles. The ‘micro-contractors’ who are involved, who had previously taken part in a further training programme regarding the requirements of the project, were then directly involved in the students’ planning and building process, so that they could take responsibility of and ensure the running of the operations and maintenance of the buildings. In this way each individual project has a firm basis as well as a long-term business strategy to secure the autonomy of their livelihood. These fascinating model projects are so well perceived by both the local community and those who are politically responsible that they encourage them to develop further individual initiatives and their support. The purpose of this year’s build-it-yourself project was to build a small local shop – called ‘Spaza Shop’ in South Africa – which is at the same time a central contact and meeting point within the Joe Slovo West township near Port Elizabeth. This little extension was built in a simplified version of the frame construction. Once again ‘green’ technology and recycled material mainly in the form of recycled industrial pallets were constituent elements. The small shops which should fulfil the concrete needs of families who live in the townships were determined in a practical seminar in the design faculty at the Technical college in Wismar with input from the local planning partner and then implemented in the township by a team of German and South African students. International cooperation demands economic and social competences of all those involved, in particular from the South African students who mostly come from underprivileged township families. Our experience shows us that they share the experience that they have gained from the project with others around them and pass on their knowledge. The enthusiasm and continuous voluntary work under the leadership of our local partner Kevin Musembi Kimwelle is the foundation for a sustainable project.

Studentisches Selbstbauprojekt der HS Wismar
Kontaktperson: Prof. Silke Flassnöcker
+49 (0) 178 187 739 2
silke.flassnoecker@hs-wismar.de

fg.hs-wismar.de

The Talide e.V. is an association with a charitable character. It was founded in 1995 to support Latinos with their integration process in Germany. In addition an awareness of the social, economic and cultural situation in Latin American countries is to be raised and the idea of tolerance and international understanding promoted.
Projects
SPL=Seminario Permanente Latinoamericano:
The aim of the SPL is to make connections between the social, political cultural and historical realities in Latin American countries. We have been able to attract a large number of speakers for our series of seminars since 2006. The focus of our lectures were, among others, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina and Cuba.
Fair Trade: Our association wants to contribute to securing small scale farmers’ and cooperatives’ incomes in Latin America and Africa in order to help them to improve their standard of living. We do this through information and clarification campaigns mainly for coffee and selected fair trade products. We want to make people aware of the social injustices and ecological abuses that exist in coffee production and trade.
Caricature competition: The association conducted a caricature competition. The theme was ‘finance crisis and poverty’ and the motto ‘Just simply explain it’. Cartoonist and caricaturists from nearly all of the continents in the world took part. All their works can be seen under www.cartoons.talide.de (40 framed caricatures can be borrowed from Talide e.V. Contact number 0381/ 459 1001)

Talide e.V.
Kontaktperson: Zsofia Torma
+49 (0) 381 200 30 28
talide@gmx.de

www.talide.de

Even 31 years after the horrific nuclear reactor catastrophe in Chernobyl, the people in White Russia still have to live with this environmental disaster. The children, in particular, suffer greatly where there is a rise in immunodeficiencies, genetic damage, cancer of the thyroid, leukaemia and tumours. That is why a group of children from the contaminated region of White Russia have been coming to Stralsund for four weeks for over 27 years. Over 1300 children have already been able to come to recuperate. We currently support a children’s home as well. Three hundred and ten severely mentally and physically handicapped children and young adults live there. A social station, a day clinic for handicapped children, a group of needy families as well a group for the elderly also receive support.

Tschernobyl-Hilfe Stralsund e.V.
Kontaktperson: Regina Deutscher
+49(0) 162 265 36 28
reginadeutscher@web.de

We are an initiative with volunteers beyond borders in West Pomerania. We want to change the world and start with volunteering. We want to encourage civil and social
involvement by giving young people up to 16 years of age the opportunity to volunteer by working in social cultural or ecological projects in Germany or worldwide so that they can gain valuable experience for themselves and can help to shape society. A network beyond borders develops between our wide range of work opportunities and our volunteers. We are part of the Kultur- und Initiativenhaus Greifswald e.V. (Culture and Initiative House). Our main focus at the moment is human rights.

turbina-pomerania.org

The association„Weltblick – Fairer Handel, Bildung, Projekte“ e.V. (A Worldwide View – Fairer trade, Education, Projects e.V.) in Greifswald has had a partnership with communities on Bajo Lempa in El Salvador, in particular with the village Mata de Piña, for almost 25 years.
The main component of our partnership is the continuous financial support for education and health in Mata de Piña. Our association has provided salaries, medical supplies and teaching materials in those areas for many years. This support comes from the profit from our ‘World Shop’ as well as donations. We are able to invest money from grants in further infrastructure projects, the most recent one being the construction of classrooms and pit latrines. Although the left wing government FMLN in El Salvador, who won the last elections in 2009, made great attempts in the social sector and in the prevention of violence, their room for manoeuvre was limited because of the political and economic power struggles. The hopes of the people from El Salvador had been crushed and this disappointment was reflected in the results of the presidential election on the 3rd February 2019. In addition the situation of the population of El Salvador is extremely difficult. Bloody gang terror has paralysed the country and forced many to flee. This affects our projects and communication with our partners there.
It is precisely in this situation, which is dominated by fear and hopelessness and new political turmoil, which means that we have the challenge to show the people in El Salvador that we have not left them alone and to show solidarity with them. This is really not easy as the conditions in our association have also changed to such a great extent that it is getting more and more difficult to provide the financial means. We therefore, welcome ideas and any support whether it be personal or financial. There is an exhibition which gives information about the country, its history and the current situation, our project partners with their successes and challenges. There are four roll-ups which we willingly lend to interested groups.

Weltblick – Fairer Handel, Bildung, Projekte e.V. Weltladen Greifswald
Kontaktperson: Margret Seidenschnur
+49 (0) 383 476 18 18
info@weltladen-greifswald.de

www.weltladen-greifswald.de

About us
Since 1998 we have been supporting children, families and their environment through targeted help for self-help. With energy and passion, we implement projects that are sustainable and really help people. Partnership and professionalism are a matter of course for us.

Our goals
We are committed to ensuring that children have prospects for the future. We are concerned about their well-being, their development in childhood and adolescence. For this we involve their families and their community. In order to achieve sustainable results, we work together with many committed partners.

Our projects
We help where children and young people need it most. We are committed to the areas of health, education and environmental protection. We provide children with access to clean water and support them in learning. We offer targeted, individual help.

wirmachenstark.de