Suzana Lipovac

Suzana Lipovac (* 1968 in Stuttgart ) has been the founder and executive chairwoman of the human rights organization KinderBerg International Inc. since 1992 .

Life

The daughter of Bosnian Croats began training as a European secretary after graduating from high school in 1988 . After graduation, she worked from 1991 to 1992 as assistant to the sales manager at National Starch & Chemicals / Unilever . After a stay in Bosnian war zones, she founded a private humanitarian initiative in 1992 to support war wounded and refugees . In 1993 KinderBerg e. V. emerged. The project locations at that time were Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbia , Kosovo and Macedonia . In 1999, Suzana Lipovac started the Bundeswehr's first civil-military project in Kosovo. In 2000, KinderBerg International Inc. was founded in New York . The aid organization now supports projects in Afghanistan , Sri Lanka , Nepal , the Ivory Coast and the Balkans .

Act

Suzana Lipovac brought children traumatized by the Kosovo war to Germany and took care of raped Bosnian women. To this day, she and her organization are fighting against high child mortality and the mortality of women after childbirth in crisis areas . At the head of their aid organization, Lipovac is fighting for the acceptance of humanitarian aid in the individual countries. "You don't have to believe that one life is enough to solve these problems. At most, you can lay the foundations for improving the situation and look for successors who carry on what you have started," she says.

Honors

1994: Künkelin Prize
2001: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg (since 2009 Order of Merit)
2001: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
2009: European Citizens' Prize

Individual evidence

↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. (PDF file) @1@ 2

↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 2, 2015, After the Bundeswehr come the Taliban

↑ Bietigheimer Zeitung of May 22, 2014, Right in the middle of misery: Founder of the human rights organization "Kinder Berg" , KinderBerg International Inc.

personal data
SURNAME	Lipovac, Suzana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart

[1] Biography ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. (PDF file) @1@ 2

[2] Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 2, 2015, After the Bundeswehr come the Taliban

[3] Bietigheimer Zeitung of May 22, 2014, Right in the middle of misery: Founder of the human rights organization "Kinder Berg" , KinderBerg International Inc.