Family fast day campaign
The Family Fast Day campaign is an initiative of the Catholic women's movement in Austria , founded in 1958 , which invites people to share with disadvantaged women in the “ Third World ”. The aim of the campaign is to promote joint development policy engagement and solidarity for a just world. It is the oldest Austrian initiative for promoting development specifically for women. The average annual donation volume was given as around 2.4 million euros in 2018. The motto of the campaign in 2020 is "Share donates the future".
The action was initiated in 1958 by the then chairwoman of the Catholic women's movement in Austria, Herta Pammer . As the annual date for the action, the quarter Friday in spring, the second Friday in Lent , a traditional church day of penance in the church year was chosen. It is close to World Day of Prayer (the first Friday in March) and International Women's Day on March 8th .
The focus is on an Austria-wide collection and donation campaign as a “concrete act of sharing and solidarity”, the proceeds of which are used to support specific development cooperation projects. Money is collected in churches, schools and families. Under the motto “eat soup - pay schnitzel”, for example, activists sell home-made soup and offer it to visitors; In return, donations are requested (“Soup Sundays”).
In addition, year-round educational and public relations work with public campaigns, information stands and calls are essential components of the campaign right from the start.
Projects from the following areas are primarily funded:
- Establishing and strengthening women's organizations and groups, women's research
- Education (literacy, awareness-raising, vocational training, management training)
- Human rights, legal advice and legal assistance especially for women, promotion of the rights of ethnic minorities and social fringe groups, democratization and peace work
- Health: basic health programs, AIDS prevention, education
- Social work in slums and rural areas, training of social workers
- Promotion of ecological agriculture, sustainable management, access to resources (land, credits, means of production), income generation
- Strengthening the cultural identity, promoting artistic methods to raise awareness
- Networking and advocacy.
The campaign has a volunteer leadership team of three women and a spiritual director. The chairperson is Angelika Ritter-Grepl, the General Secretariat, headed by General Secretary Elisabeth Anker, is located in Vienna. There is a diocesan office in each of the Austrian dioceses .
On March 2, 2020, at the invitation of Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, a charity soup dinner in favor of the Family Fast Day 2020 campaign took place in the Vienna Hofburg.
Web links
- Official website
- Family fast day campaign on OSGS donation seal of approval
- The action on ngojobs.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.teile.at/fft/de/aktuelles
- ↑ Awakening from resistance. Press release from January 17th, 2018 online
- ↑ Petra Klikovits, Sophia Lang: Seven women, 70 moving years. In: Welt der Frau , 05/17 online
- ↑ Awakening from resistance. Press release from January 17th, 2018 online
- ↑ www.teile.at: About us / Archive
- ↑ Share.at: About us
- ↑ bundespräsident.at: Charity soup dinner for the benefit of the Family Fast Day 2020 campaign in the Vienna Hofburg. Retrieved on May 24, 2020.