Shanti Leprosy Aid Dortmund
| Shanti Leprahilfe Dortmund eV | |
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1992 |
| Seat | Dortmund , Germany |
| main emphasis | Ambulance service , care , social work , humanitarian aid |
| Action space | Nepal |
| people | Marianne Grosspietsch (Chair), Christa Schaaf (Deputy Chair), Heinke Reuter (Secretary), Bärbel Puchert (Treasurer) |
| sales | 558,317 EUR (turnover from donations in 2016) |
| Employees | 1 |
| Volunteers | 80-100 |
| Members | 38 |
| Website | shanti-leprahilfe.de |
Shanti Leprahilfe Dortmund eV is a registered association which, in cooperation with the Nepalese aid organization Shanti Sewa Griha (German: Friedenshilfswerk), provides medical help, care and other social services for those in need in Nepal. The largest facility of the organization is the Shanti Sewa Griha Clinic in Kathmandu in the Tilganda district, there are also facilities in Budhanilkantha and Sundarijal .
history
In 1992 Marianne Grosspietsch founded the first station of the "Shanti Leprosy Aid" with private donations from Germany in Kathmandu. It housed a medical outpatient clinic that looked after 60 to 100 people a day. At the same time she rented a house and took in twelve beggars who had been expelled from their village community due to leprosy. In 1993 a base was established in Budhanilkantha , and in 1998 5,000 m² of land for growing food in Sundarijal was acquired. Thanks to a donation from Hape Kerkeling in 2002 and the support of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BWZ), a clinic and houses for the Shanti protégés were built in Kathmandu in 2009 . Today Shanti is the largest private German aid organization in Nepal. As of November 2017, around 1,200 people can be supplied daily.
Field of activity
The Shanti Leprosy Aid provides numerous aid services that go far beyond the care of lepers. In addition to the outpatient clinic and rooms for care for 60–70 patients, the base in Kathmandu also has a soup kitchen, workshops for the employment and re-integration of patients and former patients, a kindergarten and a school. After most of the facility in Budhanilkantha was destroyed by the earthquake in Nepal in 2015 , a home for the severely disabled and the boarding school at the base in Kathmandu were incorporated. A health post continues to operate in Budhanilkantha. Some of the food needed is produced in Sundarjial with organic farming and the help of volunteers, many of them former patients. From 2015 Shanti Leprahilfe has been responsible for the support of the Dwarika's Foundation's camps for earthquake victims in Sindhupalchok and in "Camp Hope" in the Boudha district of Kathmandu. In 2018, Shanti Leprosy Aid, with the help of the former Crown Princess of Nepal Himani Shah, was able to deliver four water filter systems to Dhang 600 kilometers west of Kathmandu to help deal with a diarrheal epidemic.
Street view of the Shanti Sewa Griha Clinic in Kathmandu
Shanti Sewa Griha plant with fountain in the courtyard
Map of Nepal marked with the districts from which children come who are cared for by Shanti Leprahilfe
Group work by students from the Shanti Sewa Griha School with the support of volunteers
Individual evidence
- ^ Anniversary letter 2017, p. 19. (PDF) Retrieved on November 24, 2017 .
- ^ Leprosy station: when reading saves lives. In: time online. October 14, 2010, accessed November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Anyone can donate money: This is where we trade! In: Gofeminine online. Retrieved November 24, 2017 .
- ↑ In the fight for the untouchables. In: Ruhr Nachrichten local part Dortmund. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .