Hanseatic School for Life
The Hanseatic School for Life , formerly the Beluga School for Life, is a non-governmental, social aid project in Thailand .
General
The HSfL looks after children and young people in need. It pursues the “ situation approach” as an educational concept. In the family-like coexistence and project-oriented learning, the children and adolescents acquire fundamental professional, social and entrepreneurial skills in specific “key situations”, with the help of which they can shape their lives positively.
Silke Nagel is the new managing director in Hamburg. The project manager in Thailand is Sommart Krawkeo. In November 2014, the TAZ reported that the association was insolvent. The company was dissolved with effect from May 28, 2014. It is now being handled as liquidator by the former managing director Silke Nagel. The role of the Financial Advisory Board Volker Grabowsky is not further known.
history
The Hanseatic School for Life opened in October 2006 in the south of Thailand in Na Nai ("Village in the rice field") near Khao Lak . The initial aim was to help the numerous children in Thailand who were orphaned by the tsunami tidal wave in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004 . Thailand was one of the countries worst hit by the disaster.
The concept of the school was based on the two pillars of living and learning from the start. The children live in family-like structures similar to those of the SOS Children's Villages established around the world . The transfer of knowledge takes place in the gradually expanded training centers, in so-called "learning locations" on the premises. The intellectual father of the situation approach is the Berlin pedagogue Jürgen Zimmer, who founded the International Academy for Innovative Pedagogy and Economics gGmbH (INA) at the Free University of Berlin and supports the implementation of the concept in the Hanseatic School for Life. He also founded the School for Life near Chiang Mai. After the insolvency of the association this will be liquidated.
Goals and activity
The aim of the Hanseatic School for Life is the clear focus on imparting practical and easily applicable knowledge with which the students should be able to build up their own existence and even create jobs later. The idea behind the concept is “helping people to help themselves”, which is intended to make a sustainable contribution to poverty reduction. The guest area of the village serves as a “place of learning” for the “Hotel Training Institute”, which is unique in the south of Thailand, for school leavers to apply knowledge in dealing with holidaymakers in a one-year training course and to qualify for the hotel trade.
financing
The Hanseatic School for Life is mainly financed by donations , sponsorships and a consortium that is absorbing the school's current bottlenecks.
Awards
On September 30, 2007, the Hanseatic School for Life was named “Landmark in the Land of Ideas” by the initiative of the Federal Government of Germany - Land of Ideas . In November 2008 the Hanseatic School for Life received a personal award from Willi Lemke , UN Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Sport in the Service of Peace and Development. He especially highlighted the School for Life: "I will tell UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon that this is the best project I have seen so far".
criticism
In addition, it is not the bearer of the DZI donation seal , which can be used to certify the correct use of the donations. The Hanseatic School for Life has not yet carried out a review of the use of the funds and the statements in the advertising and information materials on the part of the DZI using meaningful information.
According to public prosecutor Frank Passade, the shipowner Niels Stolberg , a founding member of the previous institution of the Hanseatic School for Life, embezzled the school's donations.
Media coverage
Reports in national media about the new Hanseatic School for Life:
- ARD rescue of the Hanseatic School for Life July 11, 2011
- SZ shipowner Stolberg suspected of embezzlement. A donation that did not arrive on October 5, 2011
- TAZ orphanage funding. The track of donations March 14, 2012
- HSfL is financially secure until 2013 (PDF; 1.9 MB) Hanseatic School for Life November 29, 2011
- WDR Hanseatic School for Life ( Memento from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) January 22, 2012
- NDR Where are the donations for the Beluga School? , Employees speak of a fraudulent labeling , March 13, 2012
- TAZ [1]
literature
- The little handbook on the situation approach. From Jürgen Zimmer. Illustrated by Hans-Jürgen. Feldhaus Edition: 2. Published by Beltz, 2006. ISBN 3-407-56290-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hanseatic-schoolforlife.net/ HSfL
- ↑ Contact person ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.senatspressestelle.bremen.de/detail.php?id=8742
- ↑ http://www.nwzonline.de/index_aktuelles_politik_artikel.php?id=1843220&
- ↑ http://www.dzi.de/spenderberatung/datenbanksuchmaske/suchverbindungen/?11475
- ↑ Kristina Läsker: A donation that did not arrive. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 5, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
