Human Help Network

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Human Help Network
(HHN)
logo
legal form registered association
founding 1990
founder Ewald Dietrich
Seat Mainz
motto We help children. Worldwide.
main emphasis children
Website www.hhn.org

Human Help Network ( HHN for short ) is a German, internationally active aid organization that aims to sustainably improve the living conditions and future prospects of disadvantaged children worldwide.

The association was founded in 1990 and is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that is financed through donations and partly through public grants. The organization supports sustainable development cooperation projects and the fight against exploitation, trafficking and abuse of disadvantaged children in more than ten countries.

The association operates a worldwide children's aid network. The organization works on the basis of an international network of partners and supporters. More than 800 members and several thousand donors enable the financing and implementation of worldwide support for needy children and young people.

Partner organizations are Strive Foundation Rwanda (SFR) and Human Help Network Foundation Thailand as well as a large number of other organizations and projects that are supported by Human Help Network. Human Help Network is significantly supported by its permanent project partner Aktion Tagwerk .

history

Ewald Dietrich founded the association on March 13, 1990 in Mainz . Dietrich financed the founding of the association and the first project, the street children center INTIGANDA in Butare , Rwanda , from the income of a puppet theater. The project was inaugurated a year later with the aim of providing education and everyday support to Rwandan street children .

In 1992 came as the second project orphanage Pattaya Orphanage in Thailand added.

In the years that followed, the association established a partnership with the Salesians of Don Bosco , which began with the Center des Jeunes de Gatenga , a child and youth center with educational facilities in Kigali , Rwanda, and has since been continued in other projects.

Between 1994 and 1997, Human Help Network supported the refugees from the genocide in Rwanda . The Go for Rwanda campaign , in which students took part in a fundraising march for the country shaken by civil war, was carried out for the first time in all schools in Mainz. The Aktion Tagwerk association later emerged from the campaign and continues to work closely with the Human Help Network to this day.

From 1998 Human Help Network became involved in other countries. In collaboration with the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Third World Youth Association , partner projects have been set up and expanded in Nigeria , Burundi , Angola , Sudan and India, among others .

When the Kosovo war caused a massive refugee movement within Europe in 1999 , Human Help Network, together with the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz and the SWR, supported a refugee camp in Tirana , Albania , with over 1,500 people. The following year aid was organized for the victims of the devastating floods in Mozambique . Here, too, Human Help Network acted in cooperation with the Salesians of Don Bosco, the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz and with the Lufthansa Help Alliance .

In 2001 the association started the “Bikes for Rwanda” initiative, which was intended to enable boys and girls in Rwanda to train to become bicycle mechanics.

Between 2002 and 2004 the organization initiated projects such as the donation of old D-Mark coins after the introduction of the euro or the coordination of flood aid in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate after the tsunami of December 26, 2004 . The Human Help Network Rwanda organization was founded in Rwanda in 2006, and the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand followed suit in 2008 .

Worldwide activities

Human Help Network in Germany

Human Help Network is based in Germany below the Kästrich in Mainz-Altstadt . All activities are coordinated from there. In Germany, Human Help Network works closely with the Aktion Tagwerk association , which is also based in Mainz. Ewald Dietrich is the honorary chairman of Human Help Network Germany.

Since 2013, the association has managed the trust foundation Brave Children , which aims to improve the life chances and quality of life of young socially disadvantaged people in the long term. With the funds of the Brave Children Foundation, children and young people in Germany and Thailand are equally supported. Reiner Calmund is the patron of the initiative .

Since 2013 the association has been organizing the annual 24-hour charity hike from Rhineland-Palatinate around the Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road .

Human Help Network in Rwanda

In 2006, Human Help Network Rwanda was founded in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Four years later, a merger process with the local Rwandan organization Strive Foundation Rwanda (SFR) began. Strive Foundation Rwanda has been the independent legal entity for all Human Help Network projects in Rwanda since 2015. Various local institutions are looked after and supported. This includes supporting child households, street children and single mothers as well as financial support for scholarships and schools.

Since many children lost both parents in the genocide in Rwanda, there are a considerable number of so-called child families; These are siblings who grow up on their own and have to organize their everyday lives themselves. Human Help Network works to keep families of children together and helps them cope with their everyday lives. You will receive advice on how to earn your own income and psychological support. By financing school materials and uniforms , they should be able to have a normal school education. The children's households are brought together to form communities in order to promote mutual support and sustainable development towards independence.

The association operates two street children's centers in Kigali City and Nyamagabe District. The street children receive financial support in their school career and receive psychological help. Reintegration into family structures and educational institutions is promoted and education and training facilities are made available to give children without a school leaving certificate a career perspective.

In addition, the association supports an initiative for single mothers in Huye , which aims to offer mothers the opportunity to work and care for their children independently.

Human Help Network Foundation in Thailand

Child Protection and Developement Center (CPDC) in Pattaya, Thailand

Human Help Network has supported a child protection program in Thailand since 1992. The NGO Human Help Network Foundation Thailand (HHNFT) was founded under Thai law in 2008 and has been involved in the fight against child trafficking and child prostitution ever since . Based in Pattaya , one of Thailand's hot spots when it comes to child prostitution, the Human Help Network Foundation takes targeted action against the exploitation and trafficking of street children. The organization operates a child protection center outside the city center, which offers street children the opportunity to grow up protected in a community and to receive an education. A drop-in center in central Pattaya serves street children as a point of contact for advice, food and a place to sleep. Human Help Network Foundation Thailand also supports education and prevention work for young people, especially in the slums of Pattaya.

Human Help Network Germany has been supporting an orphanage and a school for the deaf and mute in Pattaya since 1992, a task that the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand has carried out with its own office on the premises of the orphanage since 2008.

List of project countries (as of 2019)

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Awards

Since 1995, Human Help Network has been awarded the DZI donation seal every year, which is awarded to organizations by the German Central Institute for Social Issues if it can be proven that the donations were used economically and in accordance with the statutes.

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Web links

Commons : Human Help Network  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tapfere-kinder.de/
  2. ↑ http ://www.24 hours-rlp.de/
  3. ↑ http://www.der-farang.com/?article=2010/13/
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: German embassy hands over ambulance to CPDC )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bangkok.diplo.de
  5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: lighthouse project ) Child Development and Protection Center Pattaya - Small project with great effect@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bangkok.diplo.de
  6. ↑ Projects. In: Human Help Network eV Retrieved on February 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )