Students help life

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Students Help Life
(SHL)
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legal form registered association / foundation
founding 1992
Seat Neumünster / Berlin / Sarajevo
motto "Just do it."
main emphasis Youth and educational work (social day)
Action space Germany / Southeast Europe / Jordan / Syria
Employees 12
Volunteers 12
Members 130
Website www.schueler-helfen-leben.de

Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL) is an organization founded in 1992 that has been active in the field of education, youth and peace work in the Western Balkans and has been active in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan since 2013 . It consists of the club Schüler Helfen Leben in Neumünster (founded in 1994) and the Foundation Schüler Helfen Leben (founded in 2002), headquartered in Berlin and Sarajevo . It belongs to the umbrella organization Solidarity Action Day Movement in Europe (SAME).

In Germany, the organization collects donations for its projects and work in Germany, which is aimed primarily at German students. With the Social Day , SHL annually organizes the largest relief campaign in Europe organized by young people.

Emergence

The youth initiative originated during the Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s. Some German students at the grammar school at the city wall in Bad Kreuznach wanted to improve the situation of the young people in the refugee camps . The initiative started in Rhineland-Palatinate with the transport of relief supplies in the young people's private cars. The then Kreuznach student Clemens Beiersdorf (now Christmann) is considered to be the main initiator and initial main organizer; Important contacts and support went through Stefan Schwarz ( CDU ), a member of the Bundestag from Rhineland-Palatinate, who was heavily involved in human rights issues and humanitarian aid in ex-Yugoslavia . Soon, donations came from schoolchildren from all over Germany, which exceeded the private transport possibilities of the youngsters, so that trucks were rented. SHL was one of the few initiatives to begin with reconstruction aid during the war. SHL was supported, among other things, by the German Embassy in Zagreb, which provided the young people with an office. In Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia and later also in Kosovo , SHL participated in the reconstruction of more than 70 schools and kindergartens. In 2002, the association founded Germany's first children and youth foundation: The Students Help Life Foundation. This secures the projects in the long term. To this end, part of the income from the Social Day also flows into the foundation's capital. The foundation also oversees projects abroad in Southeastern Europe and the volunteers who work for SHL abroad. Today the organization wants to do youth, peace and reconciliation work and strives to improve the educational situation with various projects. In response to the civil war in Syria , Schüler Helfen Leben has also been supporting projects for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Syria since 2013 .

The social day

On Social Day, schoolchildren are called upon to swap their school desk for a job for one day and donate their wages to projects in Southeastern Europe , Jordan and Syria. The first Social Day took place in Schleswig-Holstein in 1998 and has been held regularly since then: only every two years, annually since 2004 and nationwide since 2006. After a cooperation with the Saxon Youth Foundation in 2005 (Social Day only in Saxony) and with Aktion Tagwerk 2006, the organization has been running the Social Day since 2007 without a partner. On the last Social Day (June 26, 2018), around 70,000 students across Germany earned around 1.3 million euros.

year Federal states Pupil
approx.		 Donation amount
Euro (approx.)
June 6, 1998 SH 35,000 920,000
July 13, 2000 SH, HH 100,000 2,150,000
June 18, 2002 SH, HH, NI 210,000 3,800,000
June 22, 2004 SH, HH, NI, HB , BE 220,000 3,200,000
July 12, 2005 SN 15,000 150,000
June 22, 2006 nationwide 200,000 2,000,000
June 19, 2007 nationwide 200,000 2,100,000
July 8, 2008 nationwide 200,000 2,000,000
June 18, 2009 nationwide > 100,000 1,600,000
June 17, 2010 nationwide > 100,000 1,600,000
June 8, 2011 nationwide > 100,000 1,600,000
June 14, 2012 nationwide > 80,000 1,500,000
13th June 2013 nationwide > 80,000 1,500,000
3rd July 2014 nationwide > 80,000 1,500,000
July 9, 2015 nationwide 85,000 1,600,000
July 14, 2016 nationwide 80,000 1,500,000
July 13, 2017 nationwide
June 26, 2018 nationwide 70,000 1,300,000

Project selection meeting

At the project selection meeting (short PAT), the students can choose the projects they want to support on the social day. For this purpose, each registered school can send three delegates who travel to Berlin and receive information about the projects to be selected and the project regions for a weekend. The projects (a Balkan project, a project in Jordan), which are financed by the funds from the Social Day, are then chosen as the highlight.

Educational offers for participating schools

Information stand with volunteer students

Schüler Helfen Leben organizes school tours every year, during which young people talk about SHL projects in break rooms and classrooms. The main focus is on the situation of young people in the Balkans. Since November 2014 this school tour has been carried out with the so-called social tag mobile. In addition to lectures, the educational offer also includes an interactive information stand in the playground and a selection of workshops. Before the Social Day, SHL also organizes information stands that provide information about the Balkan war and SHL's projects. As part of so-called “camps”, particularly interested young people have the opportunity to visit projects on site twice a year.

Voluntary social year and voluntary commitment

The organization consists for the most part of students who volunteer at SHL. These “active people” organize information stands, benefit concerts and the social day at their school, for example. Furthermore, young people can do a voluntary social year (FSJ for short). The participants can choose whether to do their service in Germany or the project regions in the Balkans. Those who apply for an FSJ in Germany coordinate the nationwide Social Day and other activities related to work in Germany from the Neumünster office.

The projects of the Social Day 2016

Violence is not a solution - tackling gender inequalities (Albania)

The project “Violence is not a solution” in Albania campaigns for the rights of women and against gender-based violence. It is carried out in cooperation with the partner organization “Women's Network Equality in Decision Making”. In seminars, media training and forum discussions, the young girls and boys learn how to deal with this problem. In addition, the young people have the opportunity to share their experiences and take joint actions against discrimination and violence against women.

Together into a better future - Help for street children (Jordan)

Because of the civil war in Syria, many refugee children and young people in the Jordanian refugee camps have no access to education. The project “Together for a better future” aims to reintegrate children and young people at risk of poverty into society with the help of educational offers and training and to offer them future prospects. In various theoretical and practical courses as well as tutoring, the young people acquire skills that will help them later in their job search.

Initiative timeline

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Since 1990

  • 1992: Students from the high school at the city wall in Bad Kreuznach drive to Croatia in their private cars to bring relief supplies directly to those in need.
  • 1992: 300 schools in Rhineland-Palatinate collect relief supplies - the name “ Schüler Helfen Leben” is born.
  • 1993: "Every student gives 1 Mark" in SH , the students donate € 767,000. Schools will be rebuilt with the money. Among other things, the primary school in Lipik (Croatia).
  • 1994: Foundation of the association.
  • 1994–1996: Participation in the reconstruction of Primary School VII in Mostar . Around 40 t of food parcels are collected nationwide in SH . The parcels are delivered by schoolchildren to the eastern Slavonian town of Vocin, where they are distributed to refugees from Bosnia.
  • 1994–1997: Creation of 500 kindergarten places in Sarajevo and makeshift repairs to the school for the deaf and mute .
  • 1995: Schüler Helfen Leben receives the Gustav Heinemann Citizens Prize and the Theodor Heuss Medal.
  • 1996: First German-Bosnian summer camp in Žuljana on Pelješac (Dalmatian Mediterranean coast).
  • 1997: Completion of the reconstruction projects: last school with kindergarten in the Bosnian mountainous region handed over.
  • 1997–2000: YOUTHNet: Networking of youth groups from all over Bosnia and beyond via seminars and e-mails for mutual exchange and for the joint creation of the first all-Bosnian youth magazine nepitani (“The Unrequested”).
  • 1997: Various projects for reconciliation work in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
  • 1997: Schüler Helfen Leben receives the Kai-Uwe-von-Hassel-Förderpreis .
  • 1998: First social day with 35,000 students.
  • 1999: With the money from the 1998 Social Day, the first SHL youth meeting house is built in Sarajevo .

From 2000

  • 2000: Second social day with 100,000 students.
  • 2000: Schüler Helfen Leben presents itself in the German pavilion at the Expo 2000 .
  • 2000: Schüler Helfen Leben takes part in the organization of the first youth fair in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  • 2000: Handshake campaign - Great Balkans information tour through Germany. German young people demonstrate their solidarity with young people in the Balkans with "handshakes" on linen towels.
  • 2000: "First Aid" in Kosovo. 25 schools will be equipped with teaching materials, heaters, blackboards, etc.
  • 2001: Completion of the youth center in Rahovec / Orahovec in Kosovo .
  • 2001: Schüler Helfen Leben receives the STARK Prize .
  • 2002: Third Social Day with 210,000 students.
  • 2002: Foundation of the Student Help Life Foundation in order to secure the existing projects in the long term.
  • 2002: Schüler Helfen Leben receives the International Peace Prize of Westphalia .
  • 2003: Completion of the youth and training center in Krizevici (East Bosnia).
  • 2004: Fourth Social Day with 220,000 students.
  • 2004: Start of the projects “Ecological Training Center in Boiu” and “Summer Schools for Roma Youngsters”.
  • 2005: Fifth Social Day (only in Saxony).
  • 2006: First nationwide social day.
  • 2007: On June 19 the second nationwide Social Day was held under the patronage of Federal President Horst Köhler.
  • 2008: SHL receives the Hans Rosenthal Prize of Honor from the Hans Rosenthal Foundation
  • 2008: On July 8th, the Social Day takes place for the first time under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel .

From 2010

  • 2010: 100,000 students earn 1.6 million euros on the 10th Social Day
  • 2010: The organization receives the German Citizens' Prize at regional and state level in the U21 category.
  • 2010: The organization received the “Giving gives” award in the youth engagement category
  • 2011: SHL receives the European Citizen Award
  • 2011: The organization is awarded the Europa-Lillie for European youth work
  • 2012: On the Social Day (June 14th) more than 80,000 schoolchildren worked on around € 1.5 million for youth projects.
  • 2013: The young members of SHL decide to add a new country to the project regions: From 2013, SHL will also support Syrian refugees in Jordan.
  • 2013: On the Social Day (June 13th) over 80,000 schoolchildren earn more than 1.5 million euros
  • 2014: 80,000 schoolchildren again work out around 1.5 million euros for social projects, Twitter becomes a partner of the Social Day
  • 2014: Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein Torsten Albig sends the SozialerTag-Mobil on its way, a new concept for the Germany tour
  • 2015: On the Social Day (July 9th) around 85,000 schoolchildren worked out around € 1.6 million for projects in Southeastern Europe and Jordan.
  • 2015: The organization is nominated for the KOMPASS by the Federal Association of German Foundations with the 2014 annual report.

Supporters and Patrons

Patrons of the Social Day 2015

Members of the Board of Trustees

More supporters

  • Angela Merkel (Federal Chancellor and Chairwoman of the CDU), patron of the Social Day 2008–2014
  • Joachim Gauck (Federal President)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Students Help Life  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Making of Students Help Life
  2. ↑ Schüler Helfen Leben: Social Day 2018. Accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The project selection meeting of Schüler Helfen Leben ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schueler-helfen-leben.de
  4. ^ The social day mobile from Schüler Helfen Leben
  5. ^ SHL camps
  6. ↑ Voluntary service at Schüler Helfen Leben ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schueler-helfen-leben.de
  7. ^ The projects of the social day - students help life. In: www.schueler-helfen-leben.de. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
  8. ^ The projects of the social day - students help life. In: www.schueler-helfen-leben.de. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Foundation Schüler Helfen Leben: “The emergence of SHL” ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schueler-helfen-leben.de
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Schüler Helfen Leben: "Excellent"
  11. ↑ The story of Schüler Helfen Leben
  12. ↑ Hans Rosenthal Foundation: "The Hans Rosenthal Prize" ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hans-rosenthal-stiftung.de
  13. ↑ SHL receives the European Citizen Award
  14. ↑ Award Europa-Lillie ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europa-union.de
  15. ↑ Social Tag Mobile
  16. ↑ SHL is nominated for the KOMPASS ( memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftungen.org
  17. ↑ Foundation Board of Trustees Students Helfen Leben ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schueler-helfen-leben.de
  18. ↑ http://hans-rosenthal-stiftung.de/aktion-und-termine/ehrenpreis/