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.
