Current suggestions
Every quarter the purchasers of the annual collection boxes choose the three institutions which will receive the donations in the next three months. You suggest the institutions which can be chosen.
At each election the last three places won't be considered again for the next election in order to prevent the list from becoming too long. Those institutions can be seen under "Suggestions sorted out" and can be directly supported.
Here the actual list of suggestions:
1.) WWF – Germany (World WIDE FUND FOR NATURE)
Action: Save the grey whale.
There are only 30 propagable female grey whales left worldwide. The breeding places of these whales are offshore the Russian island of Sakhalin. Large volumes of crude oil and natural gas have been found there. That's why Shell builds pipelines and platforms there now. The result will be that the grey whales become extinct soon due to the high noise exposure. The whole project violates the Russian environmental law. WWF pleads for the British oil group to abide by the applicable law. We want to support WWF in this! For more information: www.wwf.de
2.) SOS Children's village Bethlehem
The SOS Children's villages care about the well-being of children worldwide. Orphans and children in need are enabled to grow up in a family. They receive shelter, food, education and medical care.
We want to support the SOS Children's Village in Palestine. In this crisis-ridden region it is even more remarkable when children receive education and love and therefore hopefully are able to flee from the horrible circle of suffering and retaliation. We are of the opinion that a possible solution to the coping of the conflict lies in the next generation. This we want to support
www.sos-kinderdoerfer.de/html/bethlehem.html
3.) Children's hospice Löwenherz in Syke
The children's hospice Löwenherz in Syke near Bremen has eight places for seriously ill children as well as their parents and brothers and sisters. Up to 150 families are welcomed here annually. Children with terminal illnesses are accomodated here, who cannot be cured with today's standard of medicine. The most important aim of the association is to secure the service of the children's hospice. However, the association has more tasks which are to make the topic "Children's death" known in public and to support the involved parents and brothers and sisters. www.kinderhospiz-loewenherz.de
4.) UNICEF
„Street children in Moscow and St. Petersburg“. Homeless and working children become more and more part of the cityscape of large cities in Russia. The children wash cars on the streets, pick bottles or prostitute. UNICEF establishes relief projects in Moscow and St. Peterburg where contact is available and educational offers are supported.
www.unicef.de/169.html
5.) CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission
This institution has been founded by pastor Ernst Jacob Christoffel, who emigrated to India in 1908 in order to help blind and handicapped children. Aid for blind persons around the world is the major task of this institution. Cataract is the most common cause of amaurosis, however, which can be prevented by surgery. Cataract affection increases drastically, particularly in Third World Countries. More than 12 million people have been examined worldwide in 2005. 30 € is sufficient to do surgery on cataract. More than 600,000 x the clouded lens has been removed and the ability to see restored. More than 1,000 projects in over 100 countries are supported (Hospitals with eye specialists, mobile eye wards, schools and training centers), particularly in developing countries.
www.cbm.de
6.) Masifunde Patenschaften e.V.
„Learn 4 life!“ – With this slogan the institution "Masifunde" enables children in a township in Port Elizabeth/South Africa the education in first-class schools. For South Africa is still characterized by a huge social inequity and a good education is for many not affordable.
With a sustain support - financed by sponsorships and donations - the institution tries to provide a way out of the vicious circle of poor education and poverty. Besides school attendance, Masifunde also organises supervision during the afternoons and so supports more than 60 children. The institution works voluntarily so that almost the complete donation amounts are passed on to South Africa. For more information:
www.masifunde.de, Hotline for donation: 09001-110080 (5 Euro/call)
7.) Hinz & Kuntz
The idea is simple: Derelicts sell a magazine on the streets. Instead of receiving alms, they sell a product which is appeal everyone and which helps to get into conversation with each other. Hinz&Kunzt has put a face to homeless people and ensures that derelicts and tenants can be eyeball to eyeball with each other. There are many ways which end in homelessness, however, there are only few back. Hinz&Kunzt calls attention to this topic - again and again - and wants to help every individual to get out of the vicious circle of homelessness and unemployment, addiction and loneliness.
www.hinzundkunzt.de
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9.) BUND
Since more than 30 years the BUND speaks for the nature conservation and environment protection. All the people who support this work form one of Germany's largest environmental institutions - with more than 390,000 members and sponsors. The BUND stands up for consequent ecological politics in front of politics and administration - such as groceries and animal feed without genetic engineering or a reduction of toxic chemicals in every day life. Locally many BUND members work in more than 2,000 groups for the nature - for example by looking after mixed orchards or by taking part in campaigns for the climate protection.
www.bund.de
10.) UNESCO Kinder
More than 40 Mio people are infected by AIDS worldwide. With the help of education and by making AIDS the subject of discussion 700,000 can be protected annually. In Thailand 400,000 children have lost their parents and many of them are affected by this disease. Especially in Africa more than 5 million children live without their parents. UNESCO supports schools and other institutions in aid of the affected children in those countries.
www.unesco.de
11.) Supporting initiative for the benefit of accident affected children (e.V.)
Children having experienced an accident, have cried enough alredady. Suffering from shock or by pain. Due to good doctors they can run and jump again. However, they are still afraid of walking alone to a friend's house three blocks away. Having trust and courage - that's what they excercise together with Hamburg's policemen. On crossings, in the gym, by climbing on trees and in night walks. During a fortnight holiday camp in the snow, at the Baltic Sea and on a pony farm. Only because it's fun and is good.
www.achteaufmich.de
12.) DKHW Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk
Official sponsor of e.g. the Grüne Punkt (German recycling system) and Super RTL (German TV channel)
2,5 Mio. children under 15 years of age live in Germany in poverty > every 6th child in one of the richest countries of the world. According to the PISA study the level of education highly depends on the social background. Children from poor living circumstances don't have books at home, no or just few teaching aids, don't get warm meals, don't get private lessons, don't get support from their parents. The Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk supports projects which improve the quality of life of the children and youths. Special attention is paid to the active participation of the children.
www.dkhw.de
13.) Mildred Scheel Stiftung - German cancer aid
The institution was founded by Mildred Scheel (wife of the former German president Walter Scheel) in 1974.
Every year 420.000 people come ill with cancer in Germany. Among them increasingly children under the age of 15.
Aim of the foundation is
- to help the concerned and their relatives
- to improve the prevention, early detection and diagnosis
- and the therapy.
The foundation is financed exclusively by donations > no public funds. www.krebshilfe.de
14.) Evangelic Foundation Alsterdorf
The evangelic foundation Alsterdorf is a social institution in Hamburg, which speaks up for the interests of people with disabilities. This involves e.g. the offering of living communities, jobs for people with disabilities but also integrative schools and kindergardens.
www.alsterdorf.de
15.) "Die Arche“ e.V.
The youth center "Die Arche" was founded in Berlin in 1995. There is a center in Hamburg since January. The body responsible for the center is the "Christliche Kinder- und Jugendwerk e.V.". Aim of the association is to get the children off the streets, offer them leisure activities and speak against social deficiency as well as putting the children back in the focus of society's attention.
www.kinderprojekt-arche.de
16.) Startklar
Starklar is a project of the In Via e.V. Aim of this project is to offer children equal opportunities. That's why especially children from deprived circumstances are supported by this association. Startklar! is located in the Reiherstiegviertel of Hamburg's district Wilhelmsburg. Startklar! approaches mainly pupils from the 7th grade, in order to support them with advice and information during the change from school to work.
17.) Friends and interested parties of the first handicapped accessible main sailer in Germany (e.V.)
This association from Uckermünde builds a handicapped accessible sailer. On this ship handicapped people have the opportunity to sail over the oceans. www.rollisegler.de
18.) Welthungerhilfe (German Agro Action)
The DWHH give aid from one source: from quick emergency assistance after a disaster to long-term projects with native partners. To overcome the hunger means to us to overcome the poverty. We support people that have run into difficulties and poverty independent of the color of the skin, confession or philosophy of life. However, helping doesn't mean to give presents. Effective help means: open up opportunities for people to live and arrange their life without hunger and difficulties in future.
www.welthungerhilfe.de
19.) KinderSuchthilfe (Children's addiction help)
The German KinderSuchthilfe wants to prevent children and youths from addiction, to make Christian core values known and to help them arrange a life free of addictive drugs.
www.kindersuchthilfe.de
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22.) ASBH Hamburg
This institution is a fusion of parents and adults, who themselves or whose children are afflicted with spina bifida and/or Hydrocephalus (abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid). They help and support themselves, offer round tables, weekends and two-week holiday camps where afflicted children and youths and the adults are able to travel without their parents but with professional supervision.
