Federal Association for Homeless Aid
The Federal Working Group for Homeless Aid (BAG W) is a working group of responsible and competent social organizations in the private and public sector as well as the private and public-law providers of social services and facilities for homeless people. It was based in Bielefeld from 1954 to 2013 and Berlin since then.
The managing director is Werena Rosenke, the chairwoman is Karin Kühn.
history
In 1954 the Federal Working Group for Non-Sedentary Aid was founded. In 1991 the name was changed to the current name in order to break away from the old term "non-sedentary". This term - coined in 1938 - assumed that those affected had an "unrestrained wandering instinct" - the loss of housing was therefore attributed to personal deficits .
The traveling exhibition "Homeless under National Socialism" can be borrowed through the working group .
- see also a solution in Berlin Housing First Berlin
Web links
- Literature from and about the Federal Homeless Aid Association in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.igfm.de/www.igfm.de/hilfe-fuer-obdachlose/ Information from the International Society for Human Rights on BAG W, accessed on November 13, 2018
- ↑ https://bagw.de/de/der-verein/geschaeftsstelle/ref_rosenke.html accessed on November 13, 2018
- ↑ https://bagw.de/de/impressum.html accessed on November 13, 2018
- ↑ Cf. Wolfgang Ayaß : “Vagabunden, Wanderer, Homeless and Non-Settled”: a brief history of the concept of help for the homeless , in: Archive for Science and Practice of Social Work 43 (2013), Issue 1, pp. 90-102.