Action group Solidarity World
| Action group Solidarity World | |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 1957 |
| Seat | Berlin ( ⊙ ) |
| precursor | Action group for the hungry |
| purpose | Women's rights, environmental protection, human rights |
| Action space | Africa, Asia, Latin America |
| Chair | Marita Ecke, Barbara Neubert, Franz Nienborg, Jürgen Weber |
| Managing directors | Christophe Mailliet |
| sales | 1,306,357 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 11 (2019) |
| Members | 109 (2018) |
| Website | www.aswnet.de |
The Solidarity World Association (ASW) is a non-profit development association based in Berlin . It supports projects in Asia , Africa and Latin America .
It was founded in 1957 in Berlin, which was not yet completely divided . This makes it one of the oldest development organizations in Germany .
In contrast to many other organizations, the organization has not sent “ development workers ” or “experts” since its inception . The association was a pioneer in that all funded projects were initiated by local people and implemented independently. The aim of the ASW funding is to strengthen disadvantaged groups financially and ideally so that they can shape social change independently in the long term .
Main topics are the protection of human rights , the empowerment of women and the protection of the environment in the countries of the global south .
Priorities and objectives
The vision of the ASW is a world of solidarity in which the existing gap between rich and poor, north and south, the powerful and the disenfranchised has been eliminated.
The ASW only supports projects that are initiated and implemented by local people and that contribute to the collective strengthening of the community. The main topics are the empowerment of women through self-organization and self-help groups and the promotion of sustainable and ecological agriculture .
The ASW project countries are in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In addition to changing the situation of people in countries in the global south, the aim is to rethink the countries of the global north. Domestic work is therefore also one of the activities of the ASW.
The magazine Solidarity World appears every three months .
history
The ASW was born with the appeal for the hungry, which was initiated in 1957 by Lothar Kreyssig and signed by well-known public figures, including Heinrich Albertz , Willy Brandt , Heinz Galinski , Kurt Scharf and Otto Suhr . People were asked to forego one meal a week and donate the money saved to help the hungry in poor countries. Then the action group for the hungry was founded.
The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 led to a split in the action group for the hungry. While the INKOTA network was founded in the GDR with the support of the Protestant Church , the non-denominational community of action Solidarity World developed in the FRG .
In 1975 the then board of the ASW decided against arranging child sponsorships . The reason for this was the realization that child sponsorships increased the donation income, but the local children hardly benefited from it. The sponsorships isolated children and alienated them from their families and the village community. The ASW's support for children's homes ran out by 1982 and the organization has since then increasingly relied on community funding.
ASW has had a separate office in India since 1957. Since the 1970s, the responsibility for overseeing the Indian projects has been transferred more and more to competent Indian partners until the Center for World Solidarity CWS was founded in 1992 as an independently operating partner organization of the ASW.
In the 1970s and 1980s, ASW began training and campaigning in Germany. The children's magazine SAMsolidam was published four times a year with the aim of preventing prejudices before they arise. In 2000 the production of the magazine was stopped.
financing
The ASW is largely financed by private donations. Larger projects are supported with third-party funds .
Transparency and donation seal
The ASW has been the bearer of the DZI donation seal since the end of 1994 and is recognized by it as worthy of support.
The ASW has been a signatory to the Transparent Civil Society Initiative since the beginning of 2011 .
Memberships, cooperations
The ASW is a member of the Association for Development Policy and Humanitarian Aid of German NGOs VENRO, in the Berlin Development Policy Advice BER, in the Berlin Global Village eV, in the Federal Coordination Internationalism BUKO, in Together for Africa , in the Dalit Solidarity Germany, in the cooperation Brazil KoBra, im Zimbabwe network and at the alliance "Legal security for political decision-making" .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lukas Dubro: Action Group Solidarity World eV In: taz.die tageszeitung , published on July 19, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2018.
- ↑ a b short description of the ASW
- ↑ a b c d e Mission statement of the ASW (PDF)
- ^ Women's self-help groups in India
- ↑ Organizing women and strengthening entire communities
- ↑ a b ASW project countries and funding
- ^ Solidarity World - The ASW magazine
- ↑ Picture gallery 60 years of ASW
- ↑ a b Action group for the hungry (PDF)
- ^ Foundation of INKOTA
- ↑ Joint history of INKOTA and the ASW (PDF, p. 11)
- ↑ Smack of a colonial attitude - child sponsorships in the Third World: Benefit or nonsense? In: Der Spiegel No. 48/1985, published on November 25, 1985, accessed on January 12, 2018.
- ↑ terre des hommes does not arrange child sponsorships. Why not?
- ↑ Child sponsorships and children's homes: The lucrative error (PDF)
- ↑ a b History of the CWS
- ^ The ASW in India and the creation of the "Center for World Solidarity" (PDF)
- ^ Founding of the CWS
- ↑ De-Europeanization of project work
- ↑ SAMSOLIDAM In: taz. On the weekend , published on November 21, 1992, accessed on January 12, 2018.
- ↑ SAMsolidam - magazine for children and youth
- ^ Bearer of the DZI donation seal
- ^ Signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative
- ↑ VENRO member database
- ↑ Member of BER
- ^ Member of the Berlin Global Village eV
- ↑ Members of BUKO ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Member of Together for Africa
- ↑ members in dSID
- ↑ Member of KoBra
- ↑ Member of the Zimbabwe Network ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Members of the legal security alliance for political decision-making
