Evangelical youth and welfare organization
| EJF non-profit corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Non-profit public company |
| founding | 1894 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| precursor | Brandenburg Rescue House Society (1894), EJF non-profit Heimbetriebs-GmbH (1990) |
| purpose | Diaconal institution |
| Chair | Andreas Eckhoff |
| sales | 190,846,938 (2018) |
| Employees | 4267 (2018) |
| Website | www.ejf.de |
The Evangelical Youth and Welfare Association ( EJF non-profit AG), based in Berlin, is a diaconal and social provider of facilities and services for people who are looking for special personal and social care and support.
The main fields of activity of the EFJ are child, youth and family assistance, assistance for the disabled, assistance to the elderly and work with asylum seekers and refugees. In addition, the EFJ operates day-care centers, is involved in training and further education and operates leisure facilities and conference centers.
The EFJ has over 120 facilities in Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia as well as Poland and the Czech Republic.
A total of almost 20,000 people are cared for permanently or temporarily by around 4,000 employees in these EFJ facilities. A third of those in care are children and young people.
The organization is a member of the Diakonisches Werk and understands its mission as the implementation of the Christian commandment of active neighborly love. The official motto is: together - for each other .
The EJF non-profit AG is managed by CEO Andreas Eckhoff and CEO Norbert Schweers.
history
The organization has its roots in the rescue house movement of the late 19th century and emerges from the "Brandenburg Rescue House Association" founded on December 4, 1894. This was renamed in 1916 in "Church Educational Association of the Province of Brandenburg eV (KEV)" and in 1950 in "Church Educational Association Berlin-Brandenburg eV"
From 1966 onwards, the Diakoniezentrum Heiligensee, located away from the noise and stress of the big city, was planned and developed for people in special situations, which offers a home or a workplace for around 1500 people on over 16 hectares.
Between 2004 and 2009 there was a cooperation between the Evangelical Youth and Welfare Association (EJF) and the Diakoniestiftung Lazarus Berlin. The AG was called the EJF-Lazarus Society at the time.
In 2010, the EFJ came under public criticism for the mistreatment of a young resident in Brandenburg and its opaque financial management. However, the public prosecutor's office closed the investigation against the former CEO.
Since 2015, the organization has been increasingly involved in refugee aid and was one of the first to operate the so-called Tempohomes in Berlin.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transparency. In: ejf.de. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Chronicle. In: ejf.de. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Asylum seekers move into Tempohome on Zossener Strasse. In: berliner-woche.de. October 20, 2016, accessed April 22, 2020 .