Shelter Now

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Shelter Now Germany
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legal form non-profit registered association
founding 1983
founder Georg Taubmann
Seat Braunschweig
main emphasis Development aid , humanitarian aid
Action space Afghanistan , Pakistan
people Udo Stolte, Georg Taubmann
Employees 5
Volunteers 11
Members 20th
Website www.shelter.de

Shelter Now (also known as Shelter Now International (SNI) ) is an international Christian relief organization that has been active in Pakistan since 1983 and in Afghanistan since 1988 . According to the statutes, it provides “help for the poor and the needy, in particular through aid projects of a technical, medical and humanitarian nature, regardless of race, political convictions or religion”.

The organization runs regional offices in:

In organizational terms, the SNI consists of an association of sister organizations in various countries. The development work of the humanitarian aid organization focuses primarily on Afghanistan and Pakistan and is coordinated by the German branch based in Braunschweig .

The organization gained international fame in 2001 when 24 employees of the organization were captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan on charges of Christian proselytizing . They were only released after being detained for over 100 days.

history

At the beginning of the 1980s, a humanitarian catastrophe loomed in the Middle East : after years of civil war and the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops , over three million people fled to Pakistan . They vegetated there in huge refugee camps . These images went around the world and led to the establishment of Shelter Now by a small group of committed Christians in Germany and other countries.

1979-1990

The aid organization was set up in 1979. At that time, the invasion of Soviet troops in Afghanistan sparked a great refugee movement in the world. Several million Afghan refugees lived in the region of the border city of Peshawar in Pakistan. Moved by their fate, the American Thor Armstrong and his wife Debi founded the “Shelter Now International” (SNI) aid organization. In 1982 the couple moved to Pakistan with several like-minded people to help these refugees. After the aid organization was registered in 1983 under the name “SNI” as a non-governmental organization in Pakistan and an office was opened in Peshawar, the first projects were started in the refugee camps around the city in the same year. Over the next few years, the organization distributed food, drinking water, milk and other relief supplies to many thousands of families and built emergency shelters and soup kitchens for them. In the refugee camps, Shelter Now built clinics, schools, wells and houses for widows, among other things.

In 1988 the work was extended to Afghanistan, the organization set up concrete factories, as in Pakistan, in which, among other things, concrete roof girders are manufactured for the houses for returning Afghan refugees. 1990 became a turning point for Shelter Now: in April and May 1990, Islamic extremists looted and destroyed the office and workshops in Pakistan because they felt they had been provoked by an aid project for Afghan widows. The damage exceeded a million dollars. After thorough investigations, the Pakistani government later assumed responsibility for the looting and paid compensation. On June 16, 1990, the director Thor Armstrong was ambushed by gunmen and escaped with his life. Armstrong then returned to the United States and founded an independent organization there with the same name "Shelter Now International". Because of further threats against Shelter Now, the other foreign employees also left Pakistan and all aid projects were suspended.

1991-2000

At the end of 1990 the German Georg Taubmann from Sulzbach-Rosenberg took over the management of SNI. In 1991 Taubmann returned to Pakistan - the rebuilding of the organization in Pakistan began. In 1993 Taubmann founded the German branch of the organization in his hometown under the name "Shelter Germany" as a registered association. After the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Shelter Now was officially registered as an aid organization in 1998. In the same year an office was opened in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. In 1999 the German branch relocated to Braunschweig.

As before, the projects in this decade were shaped by the work in Pakistan among Afghan refugees. Again and again there were large waves of refugees to Pakistan due to war and oppression. B. 1992 when Kabul was captured by the mujahideen and in 1996 by the Taliban, or in 1998 when the Taliban massacred the population in the Shamali region . Shelter Now played a key role in setting up the three refugee camps Nasir Bagh , Akora Katthhak and Shamshatoo . In Afghanistan, the relief organization built several concrete factories, which mainly produce roofing material for the reconstruction of houses. The renewal of destroyed irrigation systems and the establishment of a center for the street children of Kabul were other important projects of Shelter Now in these years.

2001: Captured and held hostage

On August 3, 2001, the two development workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer were captured by the Taliban Religious and Moral Police in Afghanistan . In their free time in Kabul, the two American women showed the Jesus film at the request of an Afghan family . Two days later, 16 local and six other foreign Shelter Now employees were arrested: Georg Taubmann, Margrit Stebner, Silke Dürrkopf and Katrin Jelinek from Germany and Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch from Australia . The accusation against the foreign development workers: Christian proselytizing . The detainees faced the death penalty for this alleged offense .

Shortly after their capture, negotiations began at diplomatic level with the Taliban to release the prisoners, but they remained unsuccessful. Diplomats were even denied access to the detainees, with reference to the ongoing investigations. After representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were allowed to visit the prisoners on August 26, 2001, the following day the diplomats from Germany, the USA and Australia as well as relatives of the American prisoners were allowed to visit for the first time. On September 4, 2001, the closed trial of the detained foreign aid workers began before an Islamic court in Kabul. The detainees were summoned in person for the first time four days later. In the presence of diplomats, relatives and media representatives, the defendants denied the allegations against them. The Pakistani lawyer Atif Ali Khan, a Sharia expert, was charged with defending the accused . After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , the process was initially interrupted. Because of the anticipated military reactions from the US to the attacks, most western states asked their citizens to leave Afghanistan. Most foreigners, including the diplomats and relatives of the Shelter Now employees, left Afghanistan during the week of the terrorist attacks. The detained development workers stayed behind. Contact with the prisoners was now exclusively through the lawyer Khan, who traveled to Kabul several times for this purpose.

On September 30, 2001, the trial in Kabul continued and the indictment read out. In the presence of their lawyer, the defendants learned for the first time the reasons why they had been detained. The lawyer was given 15 days to write a defense. Two weeks later he had completed the defense letter. At least now it became clear that it was a sham trial, because the defense letter was not acknowledged by the responsible judge, and there was no reaction from the responsible court. Finally, the Taliban refused the lawyer any contact with his clients. Shortly before Operation Enduring Freedom began, it became clear that the detainees were now de facto hostages of the Taliban : the Taliban offered the release of development workers if the US withdrew its threat of war. The US refused. Four weeks earlier there was already a proposal for a prisoner exchange: The Shelter Now employees against Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was imprisoned in the USA . At the same time as the attempt to avert the threatened retaliatory strike by the USA with the help of development workers, the Taliban announced that they would release the British journalist Yvonne Ridley . Ridley was arrested on September 28 after illegally entering Afghanistan. In Kabul, she shared the prison cell with the detained Shelter Now employees.

On October 7, 2001, the United States began bombing Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Taliban postponed the trial indefinitely because of the military strikes. Before the lawyer Khan returned to Pakistan, he obtained the first official contact of all detainees with their relatives. On October 23rd, they were allowed to speak to their relatives by satellite phone. After that, contact with the development workers was broken. Shortly before the conquest of Kabul by Northern Alliance troops on November 13, 2001, the Taliban abducted their hostages southwards, towards Kandahar . The following day, the development workers were taken to a Ghazni prison. In the evening there was a popular uprising in which the Taliban were driven out of the city. All prisoners were released, including Shelter Now staff. On the night of November 14-15, 2001, the eight aid workers were rescued by US Special Forces and flown to Islamabad . Hours later, the city of Ghazni fell back into the hands of the Taliban. The 16 Afghan Shelter Now employees who were captured with the foreign employees were released two days earlier when the Northern Alliance captured Kabul.

After the liberation, the foreign Shelter Now employees first returned to their respective home countries. Official receptions and press meetings followed. Most of the former Taliban hostages, however, expressed a desire to return to Afghanistan to help rebuild the country. Georg Taubmann returned to Pakistan with his family in April 2002 and then to Afghanistan in June 2002. Silke Dürrkopf also worked for Shelter Now again, she stayed until 2004. Margrit Stebner followed the Taubmann family in October 2002, she stayed until 2007. Katrin Jelinek only returned to Kabul in 2007. The two American employees Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer and the two Australian employees Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch never returned to Afghanistan.

Since 2002

After the fall of the Taliban and the establishment of a new government in Afghanistan, the registration of the aid agency was confirmed. With the return of the foreign employees to Afghanistan in the summer of 2002, the rebuilding of the organization in the country began. After the Shelter Now workers were captured in August 2001, the Taliban looted and robbed the houses, offices and workshops of Shelter Now Afghanistan. In Pakistan, however, the projects continued under the direction of local employees during this time.

Shortly after returning to the region, the Taubmann family was hit by a terrorist attack: on August 5, 2002, terrorists attacked the Murree Christian School in Pakistan . Six people were killed, Taubmann's eldest son Daniel, who was in school at the time of the attack, was uninjured. Despite this incident, Taubmann stayed on site and restarted the projects that the organization had been running before the capture: food distribution, soup kitchens and bakeries in refugee camps. The factories for the manufacture of concrete roof girders were also rebuilt. In Pakistan in the Northwest Frontier Province , Shelter Now was the leading NGO for the care of newly arriving refugees at the time. In the Shamshatoo refugee camp , the organization organized the distribution of food in cooperation with the WFP . North of Kabul, in the Shamalie Plain, Shelter Now started the Hope Villages project, which aims to rebuild several villages including the basic infrastructure.

In early April 2005, Islamic extremists kidnapped and murdered Babar Samson, a team member from Shelter Now International Pakistan, and his driver in Peshawar.

After the earthquake in Kashmir on October 8, 2005 , Shelter Now provided emergency aid. In Pakistan around the city of Balakot, 8,000 windproof emergency shelters were built. Shelter Now distributed winter equipment with tents or temporary accommodation made of wood and corrugated iron, with mattresses, warm quilts, stoves and floor tarpaulins to 12,500 families. In this way, more than 75,000 people were helped over the winter. In a tented village, the organization provided 10,000 homeless people with daily warm meals in winter 2005/2006. In the course of the reconstruction in the earthquake area, Shelter Now built earthquake-proof schools in cooperation with Kindernothilfe .

On January 17, 2008, 29-year-old Sajeed Williams, office manager of Shelter Now in Peshawar, was shot dead by a masked man.

After the flood disaster in Pakistan in 2010 , Shelter Now distributed a hot meal to more than 2,000 people a day in the Peshawar area. In collaboration with the International Water Aid Organization (IWAO), 200 families received water cooling containers and water purification tablets.

Shelter Now has founded a project to help farmers in Afghanistan get away from growing opium and instead grow lucrative saffron .

The organization

Shelter Now Germany eV

The club Shelter Now Germany was founded in 1993 with the aim of helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The registered association is recognized as non-profit and has had the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) since the end of 2006 . Shelter Now Germany eV has 20 members. In addition to the chairman Udo Stolte, four other people work full-time for the German branch. There are also eleven volunteers (as of November 2009).

Between 40 and 50 international employees from more than 15 different countries work for the aid agency in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Focus of work

The activities run through programs of the organizations Shelter Now International Pakistan and Shelter Now Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Shelter Now supports the return of war refugees by rebuilding their villages. In specially built concrete factories, among other things, roof concrete beams are produced for the houses to be built. Projects to restore the water supply are just as much a part of the activities as the building of schools. In addition, agricultural projects are funded. Another focus is emergency aid after natural disasters, e.g. B. after the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005 and after the flood disaster in Pakistan in 2010 . Shelter Now is helping to rebuild after the earthquake by building earthquake-proof houses and schools.

The work is coordinated by the office of the German branch in Braunschweig. Education, public relations and advertising in Germany are also coordinated from there.

In Germany, Shelter Now works with the following organizations, among others: NEHEMIA Christenhilfsdienst, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelicaler Missions (AEM). On site in Afghanistan and Pakistan, these include: the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Kindernothilfe and Tearfund.

financing

The non-profit association is financed almost exclusively from donations. The income from Shelter Now Germany between 2003 and 2005 ranged between 144,000 and 468,000 euros. In 2008, the entire organization generated around 1.8 million euros, almost 90 percent of which was used directly for humanitarian aid projects.

literature

  • Mühlan, Eberhard with the Shelter team: Trapped in Kabul: the dramatic experiences of the “Shelter Now” employees in Afghanistan , Schulte and Gerth Asslar, 1st edition 2002, Idea documentation , ISBN 3-89437-779-8 ( Translated into French, Hungarian, Dutch ...)
  • Jaeger, Hartmut; Pletsch, Joachim (ed.): In der Macht der Taliban , idea -Documentation 1/2002, Christliche Verlags-Gesellschaft Dillenburg, 2002, ISBN 3-89436-331-2
  • Arnold, Henry O .; Pearson, Ben; Smith, Michael W. (Preface): Kabul24: the story of a Taliban kidnapping and unwavering faith in the face of true terror , Thomas Nelson Nashville (USA), 1st edition 2009, ISBN 1-59555-022-4
  • Arnold, Henry O. (screenplay); Pearson, Ben (director); Jim Caviezel (narrator); Smith, Michael W. (Producer): Kabul 24 , Seabourne Pictures, Documentation, DVD, 2009
  • Curry, dayna; Mercer, Heather; Mattingly, Stacy: Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan , The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group (USA), 1st ed. 2002, ISBN 0-385-50783-6

Web links

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Remarks

  1. At the end of 2001 the US organization Shelter Now International , founded by Armstrong, changed its name to Refugee Construction and Relief Services and finally to Shelter For Life International (SFL), the current name, due to confusion with the organization based in Germany and operating in Pakistan . Rodney L. Pitzer: Shelter For Life International Inc. Analyst Comments - Organization Details. In: Ministrywatch.com. Wall Watchers January 4, 2005, archived from the original October 8, 2010 ; accessed on September 2, 2010 (English).
  2. Taubmann is one of the founders of Shelter Now. Since 1983 he lived with his wife Marianne in the region, first in India, then in Peschawar (Pakistan) and from 2000 in Kabul (Afghanistan). Taubmann studied the culture and language of the Pashtuns at the university in Peshawar . He is fluent in Pashto . Lecture on Afghanistan. In: oberpfalznetz.de. October 7, 2008, accessed September 5, 2010 . For his work as a development worker, Taubmann was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Michael Vogt: A nightmare lived - Georg Taubmann reflects on 102 days in Taliban captivity. In: Chiangmai Mail Vol. III No. 8. February 27, 2004, accessed 16 September 2010 (English).
  3. The arrests were the prelude to the closure of further aid organizations that the Taliban accused of Christian proselytizing. On August 31, 2001, the offices of SERVE and International Assistance Mission (AIM) were closed and the foreign employees were expelled from the country. Two other aid organizations in Afghanistan closed ( Memento from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Development aid undesirable. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 31, 2001, accessed September 9, 2010 .

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