Humedica
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| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | 1979 |
| founder | Dieter and Wolfgang Groß |
| Seat | Kaufbeuren ( Bavaria ) |
| main emphasis | Children and Education, Health and Medical Assistance, Disaster Relief and Reconstruction |
| method | Emergency and disaster aid, supply aid, reconstruction and rehabilitation projects, long-term projects |
| Action space | 90 countries worldwide |
| people | Management: Johannes Peter and Heinke Rauscher |
| sales | 15,012,986 euros (2017) |
| Employees | 151 (2017) |
| Volunteers | 858 (2017) |
| Members | 52 (2017) |
| Website | www.humedica.org |
humedica eV is a German aid organization that has been doing humanitarian work worldwide since 1979 with a focus on disaster relief and medical care.
The Union
The association was initiated in 1979 by Dieter Groß on the basis of personal experience with hardship and misery in the world and brought into being as an association with six other founding members. The organization was soon actively supported by his brother Wolfgang Groß, a trained nurse. For a few years, Wolfgang Groß, managing director until 2019, continued to run the association on a voluntary basis, at times as the only employee. Humedica now employs around 45 permanent employees in Germany and abroad, more than 30 of them in Germany alone. The full-time employees are supported by numerous volunteers who are of crucial importance for the operational work of the organization.
The organization's headquarters and central warehouse are located in Kaufbeuren ( Bavaria ). In addition, the association has four subsidiary organizations based in Belgium, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia. In May 2019 Johannes Peter and Heinke Rauscher took over the management.
Principles
The association sees itself as a non-denominational Christian work that is committed to the idea of charity. The aim of the work is to provide people with concrete help in emergency situations regardless of their religious, ethnic or political background. The organization formulates its self-image as follows:
- “We are an international community of full-time and voluntary employees, donors and supporters who use their means, skills and gifts to help people who are in need due to disasters or structural poverty.
- We see ourselves as mediators between those affected and helpful people and institutions by drawing attention to specific emergencies, mobilizing resources and providing effective and efficient help. "
Focus of work
Today the association maintains projects in numerous countries and has been active in over 90 countries since it was founded. In addition to medical disaster relief, humedica's work is supplemented by medium to long-term aid projects and supply services on the threshold of development cooperation. The organization often cooperates with local non-governmental organizations , churches, parishes, hospitals and mission stations.
Medical disaster relief
Disaster relief, which was launched in 1980 as a result of a severe earthquake in Naples ( Italy ) and focuses on medical care, is a core part of the company's activities. Almost 900 volunteers from medical professions and around 150 coordinators have registered in the humedica database with the willingness to help in the event of a disaster within the shortest possible time. In order to be able to provide emergency medical aid in the affected areas as quickly and efficiently as possible, all volunteers go through a targeted education and training program. The first-aid teams are equipped with so-called MediKits, coordinated medical supplies and drugs for the initial treatment of up to 3000 patients. In addition, humedica organizes the transport and provides technical and medical equipment, for example medical aids, work clothes and satellite phones.
Long term projects
Often arising from short-term disaster relief, long-term project work is another focus of the association's work. With the aim of providing long-term support and within the scope of the organization's possibilities, humedica is responsible for various construction projects, but also maintains schools ( Sri Lanka ), smaller hospitals ( Niger ) and childcare facilities ( Kosovo , Brazil ). In addition, since 1998, humedica medical teams have been working in prisons around the world in cooperation with the partner organization Prison Fellowship International in order to provide prisoners, relatives and prison staff with medical and therapeutic help over a longer period of time. The association is also the sponsor of the Kaufbeurer kindergarten "Arche".
Family sponsorships
The association has been organizing the so-called family sponsorship program since 2005. The organization arranges sponsorships that, within the framework of existing projects, are intended to provide targeted support to families in particular. A secure basic health and food supply as well as educational support for the children should create the conditions for sustainable help for self-help.
Supply assistance
The general care aid forms the fourth core of the association's work. The organization says it sends 600 to 800 tons of aid and supplies annually for its own projects and those of partner organizations. In addition to medium and long-term supply aid and in addition to medical disaster aid, humedica distributes aid supplies to the victims of environmental disasters, political crises and structural poverty.
financing
The association's work is made possible by the support of private donors as well as public and private institutions. It is important to the organization to keep the proportion of administrative costs as low as possible in order to pass on the donations to the greatest possible extent. Since July 2008 the association has had the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues . In its most recent study, this defines the share of administrative costs as “appropriate” (10% to below 20%).
"Gift with a heart"
Since 2003 the association has been running the “Gift with a Heart” Christmas package campaign; since 2006 in collaboration with Sternstunden , the benefit campaign of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . Christmas packages are put together in Bavaria for “Gift with a Heart”, which humedica then, with the help of numerous volunteers, forwards to children in need in various countries. In 2012, the heartfelt gifts reached almost 80,000 children in developing countries.
EMT certification from WHO
In 2018, Humedica was the third German aid organization to be classified as EMT 1 (Emergency Medical Teams) by the World Health Organization (WHO) after a certification phase . The medical emergency team "EMT 1 fixed" will in future consist of at least 18 emergency workers, including at least three doctors, three coordinators, nine nurses (if possible a midwife) and three logisticians.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two new managing directors. Aid organization humedica is 40 years old , idea.de, article from May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Concept, values and goals of humedica , accessed on June 3, 2019
- ↑ [1] (PDF; 1.8 MB) Abendzeitung: Between Chaos and Kaufbeuren , accessed on March 13, 2013
- ↑ [2] humedica kindergarten "Arche" , accessed on March 13, 2013
- ↑ Supply aid , accessed on March 13, 2013
- ↑ [3] press release from July 25, 2008
- ↑ [4] humedica entry in the DZI database, accessed on March 13, 2013
- ↑ http://www.angebote-mit-herz.de/
- ↑ [5] Gift with a heart 2012: total numbers
- ↑ humedica certified by the World Health Organization WHO , Idea , article from June 22, 2018.