The Hunger Project
| The Hunger Project | |
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| founding | 1977 |
| Seat |
New York City United States
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| Chair | Lisa North (Acting Chief Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer) |
| sales | $ 18,177,044 (2016) |
| Website | www.thp.org |
The Hunger Project Germany is a non-governmental organization for the sustainable end of chronic worldwide hunger and bears the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues .
The international hunger project
The international organization is based in New York City . It was founded in 1977. The organization has 250 employees and over 377,000 volunteers in 24 countries. Western partner countries that fundraise for the Program Countries are Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. The American Charity Navigator gives the organization four out of four possible stars.
The international organization awards the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger once a year .
approach
The aim is to mobilize people in Africa, Latin America and South Asia to improve their living conditions on their own and in a self-determined way. At the same time, local experts, government officials and other non-governmental organizations are to be involved in order to change the socio-political framework and to create a constructive environment for the programs and initiatives. One focus is the empowerment of women.
activities
The organization had until 2008
According to the company, more than 180,000 people have been trained as voluntary development trainers.
The German association Das Hunger Projekt eV, founded in 1982 (based in Ravensburg ), is a member of the Association for Development Policy and Humanitarian Aid of German NGOs .
Program countries
The organization runs programs in the following countries:
- Africa : Benin , Burkina Faso , Ethiopia , Ghana , Malawi , Mozambique , Senegal , Uganda
- Asia : Bangladesh , India
- Latin America : Mexico , Bolivia , Peru
Public criticism
The organization has faced various criticisms in the past:
- Werner Erhard was one of the founders of The Hunger Project in the USA in 1977 and was a member of the global board until he left the company in 1990. During this time the organization was in connection with Erhard and his organization Erhard Seminars Training (est). The personality formation methods used in these seminars were compared by Sheridan Fenwick with those of Scientology . Erhard never worked for the German association Das Hunger Projekt , founded in 1982 . Initially, the only points of contact were that materials from the Hunger Project were displayed in some est courses and interested parties could find out more about the project. Because of the allegations against Werner Erhard, the Hunger Project in Germany broke off contact with Erhard and his courses in 1988 and expressly distances itself from him. Since 1990 there has been no connection between Erhard and the global Hunger Project.
- Another accusation was that of failure to achieve the self-imposed goal of eradicating hunger worldwide within 20 years, i.e. by 1997.
Web links
- Official website (international)
- Official website (Germany)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hunger Project: Lisa North. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Charity Navigator
- ↑ https://das-hunger-projekt.de/ueber-uns/in-deutschland/
- ^ Members of VENRO
- ↑ Sheridan Fenwick: Getting It: The psychology of EST. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia 1976, ISBN 0-397-01170-9 .
- ↑ Inform das-hunger-projekt.de. See the last two sections, especially the distancing in the last paragraph.
- ↑ Other FAQs thp.org. See the sections What is The Hunger Project's History? and Why are there criticisms about The Hunger Project's past?
- ↑ Suzanne Gordon: The Hunger Artist: Let Them Eat est In: Mother Jones , December 1978, pp. 40–44, 49–50, 52–54.