Action day work
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Mainz |
| precursor | Go-For-Rwanda marches for Human Help Network |
| motto | "Your day for Africa" |
| main emphasis | School actions |
| Action space | Germany |
| people | Nora Weisbrod, executive chairwoman |
| sales | 1.48 million euros (2016) |
| Website | www.aktion-tagwerk.de |
Aktion Tagwerk is a German non-profit registered association that organizes the nationwide campaign Dein Tag for Africa every year . One day a year, students get involved in helping their peers in Africa . The proceeds from this campaign will benefit educational projects of the children's aid organization Human Help Network (HHN) in the seven project countries Burundi , Rwanda , Uganda , Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast as well as a Bread for the World project in Zimbabwe .
The campaign
Your Day for Africa is a nationwide development education campaign for students of all ages and all types of schools. On the day of the action, participating pupils do not go to school as usual, but look for a paid job in a company, do support services with friends and family, organize a solidarity march Go For Africa or plan creative activities (e.g. flea market). In this way, the children and young people in Germany actively support their peers in Africa.
The organization sets a nationwide day of action for each school year. Participating schools also have the option of freely choosing their own day of action. In 2017, around 200,000 students from 583 schools took part.
Nationwide patron is the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate , Malu Dreyer . The campaign is also supported by many other celebrities, such as B. supported the former Federal President Joachim Gauck and actress Nora Tschirner .
history
The association emerged from the Go-For-Rwanda marches, the student representatives from Rhineland-Palatinate together with the Mainz children's aid organization Human Help Network e. V. (HHN) have organized since 1996. The association was founded in autumn 2002. HHN has been Aktion Tagwerk's permanent project partner since the first campaign.
In 2003, the first Dein Tag für Afrika campaign took place in Rhineland-Palatinate and has been organized annually since then. The campaign has also been taking place in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg since 2004. Your Day for Africa has also been held in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Saarland since 2005 . In 2007, the Dein Tag für Afrika campaign took place across Germany for the first time. Since 2008, Aktion Tagwerk has been calling on schools across Germany to participate in the campaign with an annually changing motto. In 2014 the motto was “One day. Your work. More education for Africa. ”And 2015“ Networking. Connect. Change. ”The motto for 2017 was“ Creating equal opportunities together. ”. In 2018, the 16th campaign will take place under the motto: "Strengthening roots through knowledge".
Awards
The association and its founder, Nora Weisbrod, were awarded the 2012 Citizens' Prize by the German Newspapers for their many years of service in Africa (endowment 20,000 euros). Weisbrod is the third winner of the prize awarded by the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers . In 2014 Nora Weisbrod received the Bambi in the Our Earth category .
See also
The Social Day is organized annually by Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL) to raise funds for projects in the Balkans and Jordan.
The WOW-Day is held annually worldwide by the Friends of Waldorf Education. V. organizes; The focus of funding is on Waldorf institutions worldwide.
Web links
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- ↑ Financial report from Aktion Tagwerk for the year 2016 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6 kB)
- ↑ Nationwide press release from Aktion Tagwerk on June 20, 2017. Aktion Tagwerk, accessed on June 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release of June 21, 2011 by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government ( Memento of February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.aktion-tagwerk.de - official overview of the supporters
- ↑ Nora Weisbrod: The state partnership Rhineland-Palatinate - Rwanda is celebrating! (PDF) Page 25. (No longer available online.) Tagwerk campaign, February 29, 2012, archived from the original ; Retrieved February 20, 2014 .
- ^ Dorothea Werner-Tokarski: Go for Rwanda. (PDF) Schoolchildren from the city and district of Bad Kreuznach marched for Rwanda. Pedagogical Center, 2001, accessed February 20, 2014 .
- ↑ www.aktion-tagwerk.de - official overview of the development of the campaign
- ↑ a b Your day for Africa - Aktion Tagwerk. In: Aktion Tagwerk. Retrieved October 8, 2015 (German).
- ^ Citizens' award of the newspapers for Nora Weisbrod. (No longer available online.) September 26, 2012, archived from the original on February 26, 2014 ; Retrieved February 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Mainzer Afrika-Aid: Bambi for the founder of "Aktion Tagwerk" - a great honor for a good cause: Nora Weisbrod, the founder of the Mainz Africa-Aid "Aktion Tagwerk", was awarded the 2014 Bambi. on swr.de from November 13, 2014
