Action group children in need

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Assisted school class in the Philippines

The action group “Children in Need” e. V., which abbreviates itself as KiN , is - in the legal form of a registered association - a German aid organization that supports children in need in the Third World through the work of its members and the collection of donations . The Gisela Wirtgen Foundation is associated with the action group .

organization

Foundation and goals

The association was founded in 1983 on the initiative of the entrepreneur Gisela Wirtgen in Windhagen ( Westerwald ), where the administrative headquarters are to this day.

The association works unselfishly. The members work on a voluntary basis and they bear their own travel costs, which are incurred for the purpose of monitoring the aid projects. The remaining administrative costs are taken over as a donation by an individual who also provides office space. Donated amounts are used in full for the aid projects without any deduction of administrative costs.

Management, certification

The management is incumbent on the executive board, which can consist of up to nine people. The organization bears the seal of approval of the German Central Institute for Social Issues and is recognized by the Neuwied tax office as a non-profit organization . The annual report is certified by a sworn auditor and offered for download on the association's website. Since 2002, the Children in Need action group has received support from the Gisela Wirtgen Foundation, which is also based in Windhagen .

Sponsors, projects and donations

The organization is politically and denominationally independent and does its work regardless of the political or religious environment in the developing countries concerned. To support children in need in the Third World, the association only initiates projects that help people to help themselves. The basis is more than 2,300 sponsorships (as of 2013), which are taken on by individuals, but also by families, schools, associations or companies.

With the donations made within the framework of the sponsorships, projects around the world are supported that benefit children in need and their families. In 2010, for example, KiN supported 25 projects with almost 1.25 million euros in the Philippines (827,850 euros), in India (89,161 euros), Chile (33,216 euros), Brazil (189,865 euros) and Pakistan (103,000 euros for victims of the flood disaster ). By 2014, the regional focus shifted somewhat and concentrated on three countries; A total of 36 projects in the Philippines, India and Brazil were given funding.

On-site children's homes, kindergartens and preschools, day-care centers for sick and disabled children, schools and vocational training centers, a hospital (in the Philippines) and medical aid stations are funded. Because the organization's aid activities began in 1983 in the Philippines, the focus of the projects listed on the KiN website is still around two thirds of the expenditure there. Followed in terms of aid volume - individual projects on the KiN website - India and Brazil.

people

Gisela Wirtgen

The founder Gisela Wirtgen (* 1944) has led the association from the beginning; She continued her voluntary work in retirement, which began in 2008. For her work, her u. a. awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Federal Cross of Merit .

KiN ambassadors and supporters

The athletes Georg Hackl (since 2000), Joey Kelly and Kai Kazmirek are active as international KiN ambassadors . A Palatinate dialect poet has been performing in favor of KiN since the early 1990s . He presents cheerful texts written in the local dialect . Instead of a fee, he collects donations, which he forwards and documents on the Internet.

Abusive Counterfeiting

Occasionally imitators use the name of the organization, sometimes slightly changed, for their own economic purposes. For example, in 2010 (after the first investigations had already started in 2005) the former head of a self-proclaimed aid organization “Kinder in Not” and one of her sons were imprisoned for two years each for embezzlement of more than 5 million euros in donations Probation and a total fine of 82,800 euros. Also in 2010, the supervision and service directorate in Trier banned an association from Herne , which called itself "Help for children in need" and carried out street collections without permission, with an immediately enforceable prohibition order from any collection of donations in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Action Group Children in Need (Ed.): Annual Report 2010 . Windhagen 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Who we are - Action group children in need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b How we help - Action Group Children in Need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Downloads - Action Group Children in Need. kinder-in-not.de, November 16, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ List of foundations Rhineland-Palatinate. ADD Trier , 2002, accessed December 13, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b Our goals - Action group children in need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Home page - Children in Need Action Group. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on December 24, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Gisela Wirtgen : Cover letter for KiN-Infopost 2014 . Windhagen September 17, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b c Donations for projects - children in need action group. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  10. ^ Georg Hackl - Action Group Children in Need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  11. ^ Joey Kelly - Action Group Children in Need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  12. ^ Kai Kazmirek - Action Group Children in Need. kinder-in-not.de, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b "Children in Need". Verlag PfalzMundArt, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Exposé "De Addam, soin Abbel un Eve". Verlag PfalzMundArt, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Suspended sentences for fraudulent millions with donations. In: TZ Munich online. February 3, 2010, accessed January 12, 2012 .
  16. ^ ADD Trier : ADD prohibits fundraising by the association “Help for Children in Need e. V. “in Rhineland-Palatinate. (No longer available online.) In: Press Release No. 106. September 10, 2010, archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2010 .