Promoting the income and educational situation, especially in the area of crafts, with a focus on women and young people.
Country: Nepal
The aim of Govinda Development Aid e.V. is to help people in developing countries who are unable to earn a living due to social, cultural and physical disadvantages. The poverty and suffering of these people should be alleviated and sustainable according to the principle of helping people to help themselves. The programs should enable people to be independent, responsible and critical citizens of Nepalese society, to know that they are integrated into it and to actively help shape it .Govinda e. V. maintains an orphanage for 50 children, the Shangrila International School for 450 children, a school sponsorship program, a training center, a reintegration project, a school for the deaf and mute and various village projects in western Nepal. 10 schools were built in western Nepal. After the severe earthquakes in spring 2015, Govinda e. V. provides comprehensive emergency aid in 126 communities for over 36000 people. An extensive emergency and reconstruction project of residential buildings, schools as well as educational and community centers in the Makwanpur and Lalitpur project regions followed with cross-border cooperation. The Shangrila Development Association was founded in 2014. Former Nepalese orphans with no opportunities who grew up in the orphanage work as development employees for their own country. They run community projects in agriculture, health and engineering with Nepal's indigenous people, the Chepangs. This development is a cycle, entirely in the spirit of sustainability.
Funding of projects i. d. developing countries
With the foundation we would like to set an example and motivate people of all ages to share part of their small or large assets with other people in need of help. Of course, we would like the support of as many people as possible who feel the same way as us and who are willing to give part of their savings, symbolically the “tithe”, for a globally fairer world. The foundation would particularly like to support smaller development aid associations in financing their projects, whose members work with passion every day to improve the living conditions of people in need. And not just at times when we are woken up again by a catastrophe, but constantly, daily and sustainably. For this reason, we founded the Ein Tenth Foundation and gave it a name that reflects the principle of sharing.
Our approach is to get you started:
We do most of our pioneering work to provide basic medical care and spread the gospel in some of the poorest countries in the world.
We plan and promote the construction of hospitals and medical centers. This includes the procurement and provision of medical technical equipment and, above all, the provision of medical specialists and the task of training local staff.
The planning envisages that all projects will be self-sustaining in a few years and will be managed by local specialists.
Promoting partnership-based collaboration and transformation processes worldwide, multi-stakeholder partnerships, SDG 17
Helping people to help themselves through poverty reduction, health, education, perspectives and development in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Romania. Our projects have been running very successfully for many years. This is thanks to the initiative of around 500 members and the tireless efforts of volunteers. We visit our projects every year and adapt them to current needs. In this way, we guarantee that the donations used reach where they are needed without any deductions. The club was founded in 1991 and initially focused on India. A large number of schools were founded there and an individual concept was developed for each school on how they could be run self-managed and self-financed. Education is very important to us because it is the key to the future. Times are changing quickly, so in addition to classic and traditional training, we also want to increasingly focus on future-oriented skills such as foreign languages, computers and the Internet. One focus of activities is in Bangladesh. Here too, schools are run to support disadvantaged children in rural areas. In addition to the lack of education, there is another problem there: arsenic in drinking water. Our association - recently led by a hydrogeologist from Heidelberg University - now focuses on providing children from rural areas with clean drinking water. The association has developed filters in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg and is currently running them on a trial basis for around 100 families. Other projects provide more than 10.000 children in schools with clean water. The aim is to establish our simple and cost-effective technologies there in such a way that additional systems can be manufactured, operated and controlled using our own resources and thus jobs can be created. There are similar problems in Nepal, so we can transfer the know-how there.
1. Create access to basic medications2. AIDS, malaria and TB: fighting the epidemics of our time3. Carry out comprehensive projects in the health sector4. Provide emergency and disaster relief