Drosos Foundation
| Drosos Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Legal form: | Foundation, endowment |
| Purpose: | Climate protection, environmental protection, poverty reduction, education, health promotion |
| Chair: | Markus E. Kronauer (President of the Board of Trustees) |
| Consist: | since 2003 |
| Seat: | Zurich , Switzerland |
| Website: | www.drosos.org |
The Drosos Foundation is a charitable organization that was established in Zurich in 2003 and has been operationally active since the beginning of 2005. It advocates education, nutrition and health in poor regions as well as climate and environmental protection.
The foundation goes back to a private initiative. The board of trustees includes Markus E. Kronauer, Edith Kolb, Hans-Rudolf Castell, Toni Stadler and Barbara Grünewald. He is responsible for the strategic direction and for all important decisions. Franz von Däniken, who resigned his position as State Secretary in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in mid-February 2005, to devote himself to the establishment of the Foundation , is the delegate of the Foundation Council .
The office manages operational matters by examining, among other things, project proposals for which Franz von Däniken as delegate (full-time managing director), Patrik Suter as head of finances and services, Angelika Lüthi as project officer, Severina Eggenspiller as program manager and Tobias Lengsfeld as head of Offices in Cairo act.
Projects
The foundation finances and promotes a total of around 40 projects in Switzerland , Germany , Egypt , Lebanon , Morocco , Iran and Syria as well as in the Palestinian territories and in the MENA region .
The initiatives financed by the foundation include the project Education in Prison , which aims to reintegrate into society and the world of work. The project, which was initially launched in six prisons in German-speaking Switzerland in 2007 and financed by the Foundation with five million francs, was extended to western Switzerland in 2009 in cooperation with the local cantons . With the decision of the Conference of Cantonal Justice and Police Directors (KKJPD) in April 2010, the project will be gradually expanded to include 27 prisons nationwide with a total of 155 learning groups as an integral part of the Swiss penal system.
In Germany the foundation is active with various reading promotion projects , including in Dresden with the reading project Lesestark! Dresden is leafing through the world , which is financed by the Drosos Foundation with 1.3 million euros and is one of the largest projects to promote reading nationwide, as well as with a joint project of the district of Görlitz . In addition, the foundation has been funding the Social Impact Lab Leipzig with over one million euros since 2014.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry of the “Drosos Foundation” in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich
- ^ Resignation of State Secretary von Däniken in mid-February 2005 , Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, August 18, 2004
- ↑ Outgoing State Secretary takes stock , interview with Franz von Däniken, swissinfo , October 11, 2004
- ^ "Learning behind bars for life in freedom" , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 9, 2008
- ↑ "Prison inmates in western Switzerland receive school lessons" ( 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. , St. Galler Tagblatt , September 18, 2009
- ↑ "In the future there will be buffeting" , 20 minutes , April 9, 2010
- ↑ "Nationwide largest project to promote reading" , meindresden.info, September 19, 2008
- ↑ "Joint project with the Zurich Foundation should make people want to read" , Landratsamt Landkreis Görlitz , media release of July 18, 2009
- ^ Official Journal of the Görlitz District , Issue 14, February 17, 2010
- ^ Frank Schmiedel: Swiss Foundation continues to support Leipzig social founders. June 15, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
