Pranic Project
The Prana Project - German-Indian project for intercultural understanding e. V. is a German-Indian aid project founded in 2004.
background
After the earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December 2004, the tsunami caused severe flooding along the coast of southern India . Many smaller villages were destroyed. For example, near Puducherry . The ethnologist Hilde K. Link and the ethnologist Matthias S. Laubscher, who witnessed and survived the tsunami in their Indian house in the small village of Chinna Mudalyar Chavady north of Pondicherry, then founded the Prana project. Donations from Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland were collected for immediate emergency aid for the flood victims and their families in the village and the surrounding area. In the following years, the Prana project developed as a German-Indian project for intercultural understanding e. V.
Long-term projects
The Prana project permanently supports several long-term aid projects for children and their families. The aim of the projects is to support children and their parents, as well as young women, to lead a self-determined social life. Specific projects are:
- a special needs school in which the child cast and interfaith are taught and promoted together
- Allocation of scholarships to schoolchildren and students
- a therapy center for the care and support of children with disabilities
- a self-help group with professional teachers to train women with the aim of professional and financial independence for themselves and their children
- Help for children affected by exclusion and stigmatization and their mothers / grandmothers as part of the "Glückskinder project"
support
The Prana project finances its work through donations and child sponsorships mainly from Germany. In addition to support from private individuals, the project is also supported by several organizations, including the Lufthansa HelpAlliance and the Cusanuswerk . In 2009 the Prana Project was awarded the Cusanus Prize as an outstanding aid project.
Background to the people
Hilde K. Link, head of the Prana project, is an ethnologist who has carried out several years of research in India, Mauritius and Cambodia, among others. She was a lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, at the Institute for Indology and Tamil Studies at the University of Cologne and she is an honorary professor at Pondicherry University in India. Link is the author of numerous academic publications and writer of non-fiction and novels.
Matthias S. Laubscher is professor emeritus for ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Since 2013 he has been the new research director of the Museo delle Culture in Lugano, Switzerland.
Web links
- Linkhilfe Official website of the Prana project
- HelpAlliance Prana Project . Website of the Lufthansa HelpAlliance on the Prana project
- Project documentation part 1/3 Documentation by the HelpAlliance about the Prana project
- Project documentation part 2/3
- Project documentation part 3/3
literature
- Hilde K. Link: After the great flood - How the tsunami changed life in my Indian village . Nymphenburger, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-485-01061-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ PRANA - German-Indian project for intercultural understanding eV Press article of the Cusanuswerk