Childaid Network

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Childaid Network
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legal form legal non-profit foundation
founding 2007
founder Brigitta Cladders, Martin Kasper
Seat Königstein im Taunus ( ⊙ coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 45.9 ″  E )
purpose Development cooperation based on partnership and poverty reduction
main emphasis Education, vocational training, children's rights, health prevention
Action space Northeast India, North Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal
Chair Martin Kasper
sales 2,330,000 (2019)
Foundation capital 765,500 (2019)
Employees 8 (2019)
Volunteers 50 (2019)
Website www.childaid.net

Childaid Network is a non-denominational and politically independent non-profit foundation with headquarters in Koenigstein im Taunus , whose practice focuses on education projects. The aim of the child aid organization Childaid Network is to give disadvantaged girls and boys in the project areas access to good school education and professional qualifications. The geographic focus of the foundation's activities is currently in South Asia, with northeast India , Nepal , Bangladesh and Myanmar . Childaid Network focuses on children from marginalized groups such as street children, refugees and ethnic minorities in rural areas.

In the period from 2007 to 2019, Childaid Network invested over 12 million euros in projects for children and used this amount to finance educational measures for over 180,000 young people. Currently (as of 2020) Childaid Network supports over 50,000 children and young people at 670 project locations in cooperation with 37 local and six international project partners.

The foundation gained greater prominence through its selection as an aid project for the FAZ Readers Help campaign and the presentation of the foundation in the ZDF gala Ein Herz für Kinder .

history

The Childaid Network Foundation was set up on April 27, 2007 by the couple Brigitta Cladders and Martin Kasper and provided with the necessary share capital. Since it was founded, it has also been supported by sponsors and private donors. Accenture was one of the first sponsors since 2007 , DZ BANK was added in 2009, and from 2010 the Ronnefeldt tea house . This was followed by Land Rover (2013), Tecis Holding (2017), Terra (2018) and Trivago (2019).

The project work began in 2007 with the help for street children in Assam . Evening schools have been set up and supported in Meghalaya , Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur for young people without primary education . Since 2008 preschool children have also been supported. Since 2010, offers for the professional qualification of unemployed young people in Northeast India have been developed and promoted as well as the establishment and support of evening schools for young people. Since 2010 offers for the professional qualification of unemployed young people have been developed and promoted.

In the years that followed, the projects were gradually expanded into neighboring countries. Childaid Network has been supporting projects in Nepal since 2008, training projects in Laos since 2014, school projects in Bangladesh since 2015 and in Myanmar since 2016 . After the earthquake in Nepal in 2015 , Childaid Network supported the reconstruction of 10 schools with the project Dein Stein for Nepal .

In 2012 Childaid Network was a selected benefit project of the Rheingau Music Festival . The following year, Childaid Network was selected as an aid project for the “FAZ readers help” campaign. In 2017, the Childaid Network's street children project in Guwahati was presented in the TV gala “A Heart for Children”.

In February 2020, Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller visited a Childaid Network children's rights project in Guwahati (Northeast India).

Focus of work

Project work in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar

Childaid Network Funding 2019

The focus is on children and young people from marginalized population groups: persecuted ethnic minorities , street children and children in slums, children who grow up in refugee camps and child laborers, especially girls. The aim of the project work is to give children and young people access to their right to education and good development opportunities.

School programs

The aim of the school programs is to give all children a good basic education . The following project approaches come into play:

  • Bridging courses for young people who have never started school
  • Evening courses for young people to catch up on missed basic education
  • Tutoring centers to enable children who had to leave school to return to school or to prepare them for exams
  • Pre-school programs, especially for children from disadvantaged families
  • Barefoot schools for children who grow up in refugee camps without state infrastructure
  • Programs to improve the quality of public schools

Vocational training

Childaid Network funds per project region 2019

The aim of the vocational training programs is to give disadvantaged young people a perspective in their home country, to create income opportunities and to stop the migration of young people to the slums of the metropolises or to unskilled labor abroad. The following project approaches come into play:

  • Training of disadvantaged young people in skilled trades in vocational training centers
  • Implementation of decentralized training courses
  • Promotion of improvements in agricultural cultivation methods
  • Promotion of business start-ups
  • Training for trainers, small business owners, members of self-help groups

Children's rights

Childaid Network supports projects that prevent child labor and bring children who have been abducted into forced labor or prostitution back into their communities. These projects include:

  • Children's homes for orphans, abandoned children or children rescued from human trafficking , traumatized or disabled children
  • Sponsorship programs for children in need
  • Temporary care for children with no family connection in groups
  • Decentralized care for disadvantaged children
  • Neighborhood centers for street children
  • Child protection initiatives in rural areas
  • Girls' clubs, children's parliaments, prisoner visits

Health prevention

In terms of the holistic development of disadvantaged children, Childaid Network also carries out health care projects. The following project approaches come into play:

  • Hygiene training in school classes
  • Women's and infant health courses
  • Equipping medical posts in remote mountain regions
  • Training of medical staff

Transparency and finance

Childaid Network Funding Source 2019
Idea income Childaid Network 2019

In 2019, the non-material income amounted to 2.33 million. The largest part comes from private donations (44%). The costs for public relations, donor care and administration totaled 8% in 2019. Most of the project funds in 2019 went to school programs (51%). Another 25% benefited projects for vocational training. Projects for children's rights were funded with 21% of the funds. Approx. Two thirds of the funds were used for projects in Northeast India in 2019 (68.9%).

Organization and memberships

The foundation is headed by a three-person honorary board of directors who are also active in management. In addition to the founder, Martin Kasper, Michael Legeland and Ute Nieschalk are currently members of the board. The foundation board is accompanied, advised and monitored by a foundation board. In addition to the founder Brigitta Cladders, this currently consists of Peter Eigen , Dietrich Garlichs , Hermann-Henrich Holtermann, Jan Holzapfel, Wolfgang Kirsch, Thomas Kreuzer, Claudia Lücking-Michel, Cornelia Richter, Frank Riemensperger and Joachim Valentin . Wolfgang Kirsch has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2019.

The core team of the foundation consists of about 58 mostly volunteer employees; Overall, the foundation has a network of well over a hundred volunteers. Childaid Network sees itself as part of a network of like-minded people and conducts joint lecture events such as the Königstein Salon and conferences with organizations working for similar goals.

Childaid Network bears the DZI donation seal and is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Sieberhagen: Education is his gift. In: Höchst Kreisblatt from March 13, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Bernhard Biener: Development work in India. Only half as many street children left. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 3, 2020. Retrieved on April 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ Stefan Toepfer and Tim Kanning: FAZ readers help. Education for children and help in severe crises. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 13, 2013. Retrieved on December 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Ursula Karven in India. Help the garbage children of Guwahati! , from Ein Herz für Kinder , Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Bank donates to street children. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from January 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Thorsten Winter: Frankfurt aid project. From cheap supplier to tea entrepreneur. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 28, 2011. Retrieved on April 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Information evening in Braunschweig. Myanmar - Asia's golden beauty: multi-vision show should enable children to get an education. In: Focus Online, September 6, 2017. Accessed December 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Your stones for Nepal" at schools in the Main-Taunus district. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ Stefan Jung: A role like a tweed suit. ( Memento from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from August 20, 2012. Retrieved on December 29, 2017.
  10. ↑ Tim Kanning: Training instead of exploitation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 7, 2013. Retrieved on December 29, 2017.
  11. ↑ Michael Beyer and Martin Kasper: picture with Ursula Karven in Guwahati. Help the garbage children of India! In: Image dated December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ The Garbage Children of Guwahati. Ursula Karven visits the Indian city's garbage dump. , on the ZDF website from December 9, 2017. Accessed December 29, 2017.
  13. ↑ Children's hands should write, not work. In: Taunus-Zeitung of March 4, 2020.
  14. ↑ Annual report 2019 on the official website (PDF). Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  15. ↑ Changes in the Board of Childaid Network. In: Taunus Nachrichten of September 17, 2014. Retrieved on December 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ Our team subpage , on the Childaid Network website . Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  17. ↑ Bank board member with a new task. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 23, 2019.
  18. ^ Ralf Bauer: Between Theater and Tibet. In: Focus Online from January 9, 2015. Accessed December 26, 2017.
  19. ↑ Fight poverty. In: Taunuszeitung from June 6, 2017.
  20. ↑ Foundation Childaid Network , on the website of the German Central Institute for Social Issues . Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ "Childaid Network" is the Hessian foundation 2011. ( Memento from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from November 3, 2011. Retrieved on December 29, 2017.
  22. ↑ “Childaid Network” is the Hessian foundation 2011. In: Image from November 3, 2011. Accessed December 30, 2017.
  23. ^ Prize winners 2012 , on the website of the Filippas Engel Foundation . Retrieved April 29, 2020.