World Vision Germany

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World Vision Germany
(WVD)
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legal form non-profit registered association
founding 1979
Seat Friedrichsdorf , GermanyGermanyGermany 
purpose Christian children's charity
method Disaster relief, development cooperation, advocacy work mainly financed through child sponsorships
Action space Asia , Latin America and Africa
Chair Christoph Waffenschmidt (CEO), Harald Dürr (Chairman of the Presidium)
sales 118,766,098 euros (2018)
Employees 159 (2018)
Members 35 (2018)
Website www.worldvision.de

World Vision Germany e. V. ( WVD ) is an evangelical organization that focuses on three main areas: development cooperation , disaster relief , and “development advocacy work” for the first two areas.

It is part of the international umbrella organization World Vision International (WVI) and is not integrated into the structures of individual churches. Your donation projects are mainly financed by sponsoring children . In Germany she is also involved in educational work, research on children and in projects against poverty. WVD is "one of the largest donation organizations in Germany".

Mission statement

As a member of the Christian evangelical umbrella organization World Vision International (WVI), the association works in accordance with the Christian self-image (“Core Values”) that is binding for all WVI partners. WVI is classified as evangelical. Alan Whaites, a former WVI employee, points out that World Vision International's theological position has become more complex and less homogeneous over the years.

Annette Scheunpflug also characterized the association as Christian in a study on advertising for child sponsorships; World Vision emphasizes cooperation with people regardless of their religious background. WVD differs in this point from WV US, which shows a closeness to evangelical, fundamentalist Christianity and shows missionary activities .

history

prehistory

In 1979 Manfred Kohl founded an office of the umbrella organization World Vision International in Oberursel as the predecessor of World Vision Germany eV In 1981 World Vision Germany supported 15,000 sponsored children; by 1985 the number rose to around 30,000. In 1990, after the fall of the dictator Ceausescu in Romania, the organization supported neglected children and orphans who often suffered from the immunodeficiency disease AIDS through the use of unsterile hypodermic needles .

founding

In 1994 Günther Bitzer became the new director of World Vision Germany. After a restructuring, the organization was registered as a legally independent association. The new association based in Friedrichsdorf im Taunus became an independent partner in the WVI network.

From the foundation to the present

"Pavilion of Hope", Expo 2000

In 2000, WVD participated together with the YMCA and the Evangelical Alliance with the Pavilion of Hope project at Expo 2000 ; own theme day was July 31, 2000.

In 2018, the association funded a total of 284 projects in 48 countries, around half of them in Africa. The organization became a member of Aktion Deutschland Hilft and, in 2004, a founding member of the campaign Together for Africa . In 2005, in response to the tsunami , WVD helped in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. This project was his most extensive disaster and reconstruction aid to date. With the opening of the Berlin office the following year the “advocacy work on development policy” began. This year around 150,000 boys and girls worldwide were supported by WVD. Günther Bitzer resigned as director on June 15, 2007. Urs Winkler, Managing Director of World Vision Switzerland, took over his temporary representation.

The first World Vision Children's Study was published in 2007. In the following year, Christoph Waffenschmidt became CEO. In 2009 WVD sponsored a total of 253 projects in 49 countries, supported by around 150,000 sponsors. The second World Vision Children's Study was published in 2010. In the 2018 financial year, World Vision Germany funded 284 projects in 48 countries.

Projects

Project funding by sector 2018
sector Expenditure in%
education 9.2%
Agricultural development and food security 7.7%
Health and the fight against HIV / AIDS 16.9%
Food security 4.6%
Water procurement and sanitation 18.5%
Business promotion 10.8%
nutrition 9.2%
Child protection measures 12.2%
Others 10.8%

The association is active in development cooperation, emergency and disaster relief as well as "advocacy for development policy" ( lobbying ). The focus of legal work in 2018 and 2019 was on measures to end violence against children and the reintegration of former child soldiers. In addition, long-term regional development aid projects are financed through sponsorships and thematic donations (education, water, health).

Focus abroad

World Vision Germany: Project countries in the financial year 2008

In 2018, the association carried out a total of 284 humanitarian aid projects (disaster relief and development cooperation) in 48 countries. Of these, 93 were regional development projects funded by sponsorships, 5 projects in the start-up phase, 59 priority projects (dedicated to solving individual problems in developing countries such as the fight against AIDS or the promotion of trade) and 79 humanitarian disaster relief projects. These projects were mainly financed in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office , the European Union , the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and in cooperation with Aktion Deutschland Hilft . The focus is always on regional development projects funded through child sponsorships , which, in addition to food security, also include medical care, education, the fight against AIDS and business promotion. The annual report shows that WVD's projects were financed by around 160,000 sponsors and donors in Germany in 2018.

In 2018, the association supported humanitarian aid in Africa with 46 million euros, Latin America with 8.9 million euros, Asia with 14.4 million euros and Eastern Europe and the Middle East with 14.3 million euros. The focus in Africa was on Kenya , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Sudan , South Sudan , Malawi and Burundi .

Development cooperation

See also: Section #Financing for child sponsorships as a financing model for WVD

The association has summarized its understanding of development cooperation in ten principles. The most important yardstick for the success of its development cooperation is the well-being of the children, which WVD observes, measures and evaluates using impact indicators such as the so-called child well-being indicators (literally: “Child Well-Being-Outcome Indicators”). With the Start Helper Program, WVD supports pregnant women and young mothers in Africa to give the children a good start in life.

The financing of such projects takes place primarily in the form of child sponsorships. According to WVD, such a sponsorship serves to improve the living conditions of destitute children and their environment, for example through "medical care, access to drinking water, improvements in education and nutrition". With these funds, the association carries out development programs in the region in which the sponsored child lives, in order to meaningfully embed their development in the further development of their environment. To this end, the organization u. a. Wells, schools and health centers.

The humanitarian work of the association includes the granting of microloans (since 1993), peacebuilding and violence prevention, and the development of disaster warning systems. The aim of the microcredits is to help destitute people with entrepreneurial talent to acquire capital so that they can become self-employed. In order to compensate for disadvantages caused by traditional role models, women are given greater consideration.

As part of the Millennium Development Goals , the association finances the child mortality rate by two thirds by 2015 in Sierra Leone in an area with 50,000 people, peanut paste , mosquito nets, fountains and vaccinations for children.

Disaster relief

Together with World Vision International and other World Vision country organizations, the association participates in the UNHCR project "Sphere" in order to develop minimum standards for disaster relief. Since the earthquake on January 12, 2010, Haiti has been a priority region .

WVD works closely with its cooperation partners in disaster relief as part of Aktion Deutschland Hilft . In the Humanitarian Aid Coordination Committee , the representatives of the 19 participating non-governmental organizations, including WVD, coordinate with each other and with the German government in the event of a crisis.

The association provides people in disaster areas - for example after the tsunami of December 26, 2004 , the earthquake in Sumatra or the flood disaster in Pakistan in 2010 - with emergency aid packages. Refugees in Kenya and Sudan are also cared for. In Japan, after the earthquake and the following tsunami on March 11, 2011 , WVD financially supported the local office in order to be able to buy relief supplies such as medicines, blankets, food and everyday necessities such as diapers and other sanitary articles. The help is coordinated with the local office on site and Aktion Deutschland Hilft .

Advocacy

"In development cooperation, advocacy means the attempt to assert the interests of the people of the south in decision-making processes in the north - for example in Germany or the EU." "The instruments of this advocacy include not only lobbying discussions with politicians, but campaigns and public education. ”World Vision's advocacy is primarily concerned with human rights, in particular the realization of children's rights, peacebuilding, the issue of HIV / AIDS and health and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

A central area in which World Vision is active within Germany is the “Peer Up” program. The organization wants to encourage young people between the ages of 14 and 18 to get involved in development issues. This program is funded by the EU and takes place in Germany, Romania and Austria. The focus should be on: HIV / AIDS (2010), child and maternal health (2011) and food security (2012). Young people should be motivated to get involved with young people in other countries - for example through exchange trips to other countries. In 2018, World Vision issued a petition calling on the German government to provide more funds for the education of refugee Syrian children. In 2019, World Vision handed over a petition with 18,750 signatures to German Development Minister Gerd Müller , so that the government can provide funding to give former child soldiers a future.

The German Children's Prize

The German Children's Prize has been awarded annually since 2007 by the children's aid organization World Vision Germany with the support of Wayne Carpendale , Sophie Schütt , Susanne Uhlen , Birgit Schrowange , Marc Bator , Görtz , Landliebe and bellybutton since 2008.

The 2010 children's prize went to a project for children's reporters, the Internet newspaper “anyway”, the Offenbach children's and youth farm in the “Children move the environment” category, and the Rathenower student company “Spassgalaxis” in the “Children move companies” category Association "School without violence" (SMOG) for the project "Class Council" and the project "Love of Hope" by Andrea Cruse in the category "Children move culture".

The predecessor of this award was the 2006 World Vision Journalist Award 2006 "Future for Children" .

World Vision Children's Study

Since 2007, the World Vision Institute for Research and Development, under the direction of Klaus Hurrelmann , has been preparing the World Vision Children's Study based on representative surveys of children between the ages of six and eleven. The second study was published in 2010, the third in 2013; further studies are to appear every four years.

The studies illustrate the life situations, wishes, needs and interests of children in Germany and are methodologically based on the Shell youth studies, which were also produced with the participation of Hurrelmann and which have been published since 1953 and describe the age priorities.

Educational work

Since 2002 the organization has been increasingly involved in development-related educational work. The aim of this work is not only to draw attention to need and unjust structures in poor countries, but to encourage people in this country to reflect on their own behavior. An example of this commitment is an information campaign about the around 15 million orphaned children (mainly) in Africa ( TROTZ AIDS campaign). Another example is the online game for schoolchildren "A village is created", which was developed in cooperation with DG Verlag and the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken for grades 8–13. World Vision also provides information about microfinance services .

World Vision took part in the worldwide campaign “The Great Reading”.

The association addresses children of kindergarten age with the “Lichterkinder” campaign, in which St. Martin's Day is used as an opportunity to learn the message of sharing for children in Africa.

World Vision Institute for Research and Development

WVI operates the World Vision Institute for Research and Development. Answers to the "big global questions such as poverty, nutrition, energy, population and climate" should be found there.

These include a mentoring program for students at the University of Mannheim , the World Vision Children's Study 2010 in collaboration with TNS Infratest Social Research, a study on protection against genital mutilation, and supervision of student papers and dissertation projects.

WVD relies on dialogue instead of coercion and runs several campaigns on this topic. The Task Force for Effective Prevention of Genital Mutilation considers the protection of sponsored female children from circumcision to be insufficient and demands a guarantee that none of the girls will be circumcised in advance of on-site assistance. WVD believes this approach is wrong. Burkhard Wilke from the German Central Institute for Social Issues says that one cannot always weigh up the aid. It could "have fatal consequences not to supply a village any more in order to enforce political demands".

German Institute for Poverty Reduction

The German Institute for Combating Poverty deals with the causes of poverty. It wants to show sensible ways of combating them and to promote global learning. To this end, it operates the website www.ARMUT.de. Dennis Dijkzeul is one of the institute's experts .

public relation

World Vision has received both awards and criticism for its campaigns. In addition to TV, radio, press and events, the organization also uses so-called "World Vision Ambassadors" as multipliers in its public relations work . In addition to long-term development cooperation and humanitarian aid, the organization is involved in development policy lobbying, which the association calls “advocacy work”. In order to work effectively for this, the Berlin office was opened in the capital in 2006.

Some of the celebrities who are committed to the organization include Francis Fulton-Smith , Wigald Boning , Wolfgang Niedecken , Bastian Reinhardt , Sabine Kuegler , Arne Kopfermann , Caroline Link , Ingo Lenssen , Kristina Bach , Judy Bailey , Mariella Ahrens , Mladen Petric , Peter Maffay , Piotr Trochowski , Sky du Mont , Sons Mannheims , Susanne Uhlen and Marc Bator . World Vision has also participated in various events such as the Christian Gospel Award as part of its public relations work. It takes part in Protestant activities. Between 2004 and 2006, for example, it initiated a competition called the “Message Music Contest” or Gospel Award with the Evangelical Church in Germany , the TV broadcaster RTL Television and the program guide Gong , which is specifically aimed at the Christian music scene . The aim of the “Message Music Initiative” was “a broad-based value offensive”. During the final, Peter Maffay received the “World Vision Charity Award” for his commitment as patron of the Tabaluga Children's Foundation.

According to the 2009 annual report, 4.63% of the income was spent on campaigns, education and public relations as part of the project work, and 6.72% on advertising and general public relations. The total amounted to 8,738,682 euros.

In a Spiegel report in 1998, World Vision pointed out that professionally produced TV spots had brought World Vision "the breakthrough", while the market for German aid organizations was getting tougher overall. WVD advertise with emotions, it said in the article. "It's also about the donors themselves. To help a certain person feel good."

Criticism arose in 2003 and 2004 with regard to the ARD television series Marienhof and foreign reports that were broadcast on the news channel n-tv . In 2003 and 2004 a PR agency each paid 15,300 euros to Bavaria Film to place surreptitious advertising for child sponsorships in the ARD television series Marienhof. World Vision denied that it commissioned or paid for such a practice. In 2005, the ARD clearing house against surreptitious advertising confirmed its representation, according to which the organization had its messages placed in the television series "Marienhof" for a fee. World Vision continued to deny having commissioned the advertising.

In 2004, the organization made eleven foreign reports available free of charge to the news channel n-tv. World Vision's aid projects were presented in the films. Other aid organizations had acted similarly. The German Association of Journalists asked the Berlin Brandenburg Media Authority to investigate what was happening at n-tv. The German Council for Public Relations found no inadmissible behavior in this process, since "the contributions were consequently identified as sponsored placements", "by pointing out the support from World Vision to the viewer in the credits."

organization

The association founded in 1979 had a total of 19 members and around 130 employees in 2010. In addition to the general assembly, the association has special representatives as organs. A board of trustees has been advising the presidium since January 2010.

Due to the low number of members, the board plays a bigger role.

financing

About two thirds of the association is financed through donations. The rest mainly consists of earmarked funds, for example from the Federal Foreign Office , the European Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) or the World Food Program (WFP).

The donations are received primarily in the form of donation sponsorships in the field of development cooperation. From an amount of 30 euros per month, the sponsors can decide for themselves with what amount they will support a child.

Financing development cooperation through sponsorships has the advantage that it reduces advertising expenditure because it involves permanent donations and the disadvantage that it leads to increased expenditure on donor communication. The advertising and administration costs are assessed as reasonable . For this, World Vision Germany was awarded the DZI donation seal.

The eV is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

Financing in detail

year Yield of which sponsorship contributions
in percent 		Project expenses, education, information, statutory programs
in percent 		of which donor acquisition and general public relations
in percent 		of which administrative costs
in percent
2002 41.9 million euros 65.8 77.39 12.1 9.6
2003 50.1 million euros 67.0 74.0 10.7 4.8
2004 60.7 million euros 65.5 82.3 11.6 3.9
2005 73.8 million euros 64.5 72.0 8.9 10.1
2006 91.6 million euros 57.8 76.22 7.3 9.0
2007 91.6 million euros 60.6 83.0 9.0 8.0
2008 79.7 million euros 71.5 83.7 8.8 7.2
2009 77.4 million euros 73.1 83.7 9.8 6.5

Evaluation of funding

The association has had the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) since 2003 .

Peter Dietzel from Netz Bangladesh expressed the fear that "the children would be instrumentalized by the big organizations". World Vision Germany defends such actions by saying that even the DZI thinks that it does not always go without advertising, and has attested to the organization that its marketing is "serious, ethically acceptable [...] and [is] carried out at reasonable costs".

In 2009, the association took second place in the Transparency Prize , which is awarded by PricewaterhouseCoopers together with the Chair of Accounting and Auditing at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Before that, it had reached fourth place twice. In December 2014, World Vision was named the most transparent organization in Germany together with Welthungerhilfe.

Sponsorships

The association offers donors - like the other country offices - a sponsorship model . In the "Integrated Regional Project Model", constant amounts are regularly donated to a development aid project. The donor is given an example of contact with a child from this project, from whom he repeatedly receives mail and who he can also visit. The donation finances the sponsored children, their families and the village communities in a geographically defined region with the aim of making them “independent of outside help in the long term”.

Development cooperation based on partnership

World Vision International's sponsorship concept has changed over the course of the organization's history. The model came about when World Vision's founder, Bob Pierce , “self-financed the housing and upbringing of two traumatized, neglected children [s] during the Korean War” who had previously been rejected by the orphanage . Building on this, he recruited “godparents” mainly for such orphans in order to enable them to be placed in a home. The sponsors “donated a certain amount every month to enable individual children to have better nutrition, medical care and schooling”. In the beginning mainly orphanages and schools and later small village development projects were funded, today large-scale regional development programs are carried out in which the sponsorship contributions are used to finance multisectoral aid measures. Sponsorship for a child includes help for its social environment. This ranges from hygiene , health and nutrition advice as well as the provision of educational offers , to income generation, for example through small loans , to housing construction aid and legal advice . With the personal donation, each sponsor partially finances overarching project programs. Depending on which goals have been agreed for a specific project region, this includes the construction of water systems, environmental protection , road construction and infrastructural measures as well as the associated promotion of local trade and markets. A sponsorship project is set up as a regional development project, usually includes small villages or settlements and can reach up to ten thousand inhabitants.

The sponsorships enable long-term development cooperation, as sponsored children are often supported for more than ten years. The situation is different with projects that are supported by donor institutions such as the European Union or the Federal Foreign Office. Funding there is largely limited to shorter periods of time.

It used to be criticized that funds often only reached the sponsored child and that this creates envy among those who have no personal donors. Today, according to Hammer from DW-World, the sponsorship money is spread more widely and whole school classes and villages are looked after.

In 2004, the magazine Finanztest generally held that the administrative costs of “up to a third” of the total expenditure for organizations “that primarily promote personal child sponsorships in the context of regional development projects” were comparatively high. These organizations made a comparatively high effort in favor of their donors, for example for correspondence or visits. These additional costs are mostly of minor importance for the donors. In comparison, World Vision only has administrative costs of 10% (2005) and 7.3% (2004).

Catalog-like advertising in the 1980s

Advertising for sponsorships was repeatedly criticized from the mid-1980s. Among other things, this was directed against the auxiliary form “child sponsorship”, which has paternalistic and child-quantifying traits. The suggestion is conveyed that donors can choose a "desired child". This catalog-like , instrumental access to children contradicts the idea of ​​development cooperation that aid should be given regardless of the individuality of the person solely because of an emergency situation or structural inequality. World Vision Germany ended this type of advertising in 2004. Scheunpflug noted that World Vision has now published "a detailed information brochure [...] informing donors about how the photos and information about the children are obtained and how the parents are involved". This is a helpful role model for “transparency on the donor market”.

Female genital cutting

2009 was different sponsor organizations, including World Vision Germany, held not sufficient to work towards that supervised them sponsored girls before the circumcision of the genitals are protected. The organizations tolerated - so the allegation - that hundreds of thousands of the girls they cared for were genital mutilated. The campaigns called on the organizations to use their “market power” so that the health of the sponsored children could be checked through regular health checks; this would have to be made a condition for financial support.

The sponsor organizations rejected this approach and instead carried out educational work to contrast circumcision with alternative rituals. It is unclear which of these approaches is more effective because no comparative medical studies are available.

Memberships, working relationships and networks

World Vision Germany is an independent, independent partner of World Vision International. WVI assumes "an equality of actors within the WV partnership" with regard to development cooperation , in which an international coordination is carried out on issues and politics.

As part of World Vision, World Vision Germany is committed to its non-denominational Christian self- image. Within World Vision International, all member organizations are independent and have the same voting rights.

"The member organizations are mutually accountable and undergo a so-called peer review every five years."

The association is a member of the Humanitarian Aid Coordination Committee of the Federal Foreign Office , the Association for Development Policy of German Non- Governmental Organizations ( VENRO ) and a member of the German Donation Council . In order to coordinate humanitarian aid with other organizations in the event of disasters, World Vision Germany is also a member of Aktion Deutschland Hilft . Further memberships exist with the Action Alliance against AIDS , the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs , the German Alliance for Child Soldiers , the Action Together for Africa , the Platform for Civil Conflict Management , VOICE (Voluntary Organizations in Cooperation in Emergencies) and, until its dissolution in 2008, EuronAid . The German section of the aid organization is also a member organization of the left-wing globalization-critical network attac . The association is also a member of the Integra network (German network against female genital mutilation) and the Global Campaign for Education (German section of the global education campaign ). World Vision Deutschland eV is one of the signatories of the Transparent Civil Society initiative of Transparency International Deutschland eV

Publications

Periodicals

The association publishes its annual report every year, which can be viewed online. In addition, the donor magazine Help Direct (since 1983) and the World Vision Institute's Theory and Practice series are published.

From 1997 to 2008 it published building blocks for self-help ...: reports from our sponsorship projects .

Books

  • Klaus Hurrelmann, Sabine Andresen et al .: Children in Germany 2007 - 1st World Vision Children's Study. Editor: World Vision Germany, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89331-841-4 (reprinted free of charge from the Federal Agency for Civic Education )
  • Klaus Hurrelmann, Sabine Andresen et al .: Children in Germany 2010 - 2nd World Vision Children's Study. Published by: World Vision Institut, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main, 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18640-2
  • Teaching materials Mauritania: Teaching materials for two lessons each in grades 5 to 7 and 8 to 10 / World Vision , Friedrichsdorf: World Vision Germany
  • Kurt Bangert , Thomas Schirrmacher (ed.): HIV and AIDS as a Christian challenge. Developed by World Vision Germany on behalf of Idea (Idea documentation)

Others

In 2009, World Vision Germany published a translation of the Child Health Now study entitled Healthy Children Worldwide .

Literature about World Vision Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b c Annette Scheunpflug: The public presentation of child sponsorships: A critical inventory from a developmental perspective. (PDF) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , June 10, 2005, p. 39 , archived from the original on July 7, 2010 ; Retrieved July 7, 2010 : “World Vision works against a“ Christian self-image ”that goes back to the Billy Graham movement. The international work is a private creation by an American journalist after his experiences in the Korean War in the 1950s. World Vision Deutschland eV is the German, legally independent branch of World Vision International. Development cooperation is motivated by Christianity. Working with people regardless of their religious background is emphasized. (This is emphasized here because World Vision Germany eV differs from the US organization of World Vision in this respect) "
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