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Annual Report 2020 2 terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 Imprint Content 2 Imprint 2 Content terre des hommes 3 Greetings Help for Children in Need 4 Executive Board Report Head Office 6 terre des hommes’ mandate Ruppenkampstraße 11 a 8 terre des hommes’ Strategic Goals 49084 Osnabrück 9 How a project arises Germany Phone +49 (0) 5 41/71 01-0 10 terre des hommes project countries Telefax +49 (0) 5 41/70 72 33 12 South Africa: Interview with Cynthia Morrison of [email protected] »A Chance to Play South Africa« www.tdh.de 14 Nicaragua: Women fighting male violence and Account of donations police ignorance BIC NOLADE22XXX 16 India: Assistance for waste picker families IBAN DE34 2655 0105 0000 0111 22 18 Thailand: Together against environmental destruction 20 Iraq: Interview with project director Jessica Prentice Editorial Staff 22 Berlin: Guardians for refugee children Wolf-Christian Ramm (editor in charge), 24 The donation year 2020 Tina Böcker-Eden, Michael Heuer, 25 Volkswagen workforce gives humanitarian assistance Athanasios Melissis, Iris Stolz in coronavirus pandemic Editorial Assistant Cornelia Dernbach Balance 2020 27 terre des hommes in figures Photos Front cover, p. 6, 15, 17 (top), 19, 25, 35, 37, 38, 44, 45 (top), 48, 49, 50: terre des hommes; p. 3 (top), 34 Outlook and future challenges 8 (left), 9, 16, 21 (top), 42 (right), 43 (bottom), 46, 47: 36 Results-based approach at terre des hommes C. Kovermann / terre des hommes; p. 3 (bottom), 37 Quality assurance, monitoring, transparency p. 13 (top), p. 43 (right): privat; p. 4, 14: Projektpartner; 40 Risk management p. 7, 12, 14, 21: Peter Käser; p. 8 (right): FUDE / Moreno; 41 Terre des Hommes International Federation p. 13 (bottom): P. Brenninkmeyer / terre des hommes; 42 How terre des hommes works. p. 17 (bottom): Nicolaus Schmidt; p. 18: I. Stolz / terre des hommes; p. 20: J. Prentice / terre des hommes; 44 Public relations as the key to success p. 22: Enri Canaj / terre des hommes Hellas; p. 23: 48 Creative actions in times of Covid-19 Rico Prauss; p. 24: J.-H. Voss / terre des hommes; p. 34: Wilkamayu; p. 36, 40: Florian Kopp; p. 42 (left), 43 (top left): A. Rister / terre des hommes; p. 51: C. Berker / terre des hommes Setting: sec GmbH, Osnabrück Follow us: www.facebook.com/tdh.de www.youtube.com/tdhdeutschland www.twitter.com/tdh_de www.instagram.com/tdh_de terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 3 Greetings Dear reader, In the second year of the global pandemic we are We owe it, above all, to the generosity of our donors witnessing the devastating impact of the coronavirus, and other financing bodies like government minis- which has turned the life of billions of people upside tries, foundations and cooperation partners that we down. All of us have to gear our everyday life, our have been able to respond quickly and purposefully customs and our social life to incidence figures and the in launching new projects. In 2020 you all contributed official instructions derived from them. Our govern- to producing a record level of income unprecedented ment’s health policy dominates the news and is a topic in the 53-year-old history of terre des hommes. Now, of constant controversy. We may regard it as right or alongside pandemic relief, we can continue to fund wrong – at least there is such a policy in Germany. The and, if necessary, expand the ongoing programmes – over 200 million inhabitants of Brazil cannot say that whether they be to promote organic farming in eastern of their country; they have an authoritarian president, India or to support young women in Mali who, slaving who denies the pandemic and exploits it by sending away as housemaids in the capital Bamako, have had the military and the police to the favelas to crack down to defend themselves against domestic abuse from on the poorest of the poor when they resist his policy male members of the family. of ignorance. This particularly abominable example shows a typical pattern: whether through the violence You will find more examples of our work and its impact of antidemocratic governments or as a result of lock- in this annual report. They show that, last year too, we downs – everywhere Covid-19 is hitting the poorest the were able to achieve a lot with your support at a great hardest. For that reason, a large number of our pro- variety of locations. I extend my warmest thanks for jects aim at improving the living conditions of those that – on behalf of the children and young people in worst affected and particularly supporting children our projects. who get no schooling and suffer domestic violence or social isolation. Yours sincerely, Edgar Marsh Presidium Chair 4 terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 Executive Board Report »One year into the beginning of the COVID-19 pandem- providing food packages for the most disadvantaged ic, progress has gone backward across virtually every groups who had lost their work from one moment to key measure of childhood« – these introductory words the next by the lockdowns and thereby their liveli- from a UNICEF study on the situation of children point hoods. to a global disaster. The number of children who live in households below the poverty line has risen to around Meanwhile the social consequences of the pandemic 140 million, children’s access to education and health are becoming evident. They are deepening the gap services has markedly deteriorated, while at the same between rich and poor, which in many countries is time rising numbers of children are compelled to work already great, and serve to fuel hunger, exploitation or are forced into marriage. The study concludes that and a lack of educational opportunity. And it always it will be the children who, in the coming years, have hits the poorest hardest. While they know how to re- to bear the main consequences of the coronavirus duce the risk of infection, in the Asian slums and Latin pandemic. American favelas it does not help them, since they live in cramped quarters and can neither keep distancing rules nor use clean water. In numerous families who The coronavirus crisis hits the poorest do not know how to make ends meet, the children, too, have to work in order to earn a little money to This fear reflects the experiences we had last year in survive. Instead of going to school they sell vegetables our project countries. In almost all of them everyday at the markets, beg on the streets or toil for a pittance life has dramatically changed since spring 2020, when on plantations. Our partner organisations everywhere the first wave of the pandemic broke out. Many of our provide families with face masks and food and hygiene projects were repurposed by adapting the originally packages; they assist children in studying at school planned interventions to the challenges of the pandem- or at home by distributing educational materials and ic. These included educational campaigns on protec- offering coaching. In the slums of Johannesburg, Mum- tion against infection, making disinfectants available, bai or São Paulo, where many in communities living Protection from Corona: awareness campaigns were carried out in all terre des hommes projects terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 terre des hommes – Annual Report 2020 5 For the ecological turnaround: terre des hommes has launched the »My lanet My Rights« campaign in crowded conditions drown their sorrows in alcohol or resort to domestic violence, children often receive psychosocial support to overcome anxiety disorders, depression and physical complaints such as headache or stomach pains. However, the consequences of Covid-19, which are un- covering the weaknesses of our global health, financial and economic system, must be tackled at the political level as well. For example, access to vaccines must not remain a privilege of wealthy countries. Together with numerous other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) we call for solidarity in levelling the gap be- tween rich and poor, and the strengthening of multilat- eral institutions such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Over a year ago it set up the Covid-19 Technol- Jetzt Petition unterschreiben ogy Access Pool (CTAP) in order to make patents and my-planet-my-rights.org licences for drugs generally available. We are advocat- ing for at least temporary suspension of patent rights for Covid-19 vaccines so that the much-quoted ›vaccine justice‹ can be achieved not only in our German society but also at the global level and people in Africa, Asia and Latin America have the same chances of immunisa- tion as we do. our child rights expert Jonas Schubert with Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas – the German ambassador For the children’s right to a healthy environment to the UN in Geneva raised the prospect of the Federal Government supporting our initiative for the right to a A central area of our programme activity is protecting healthy environment. Now it will depend on getting as people from the consequences of climate change and many states as possible to support this attitude. To this environmental destruction. In many different projects effect, staff of terre des hommes are currently conduct- they learn the techniques of organic farming and sus- ing intensive talks with the responsible UN bodies and tainable water managements; they use low-fuel and so- testifying as experts before the children’s commission lar-fired stoves for cooking instead of cutting down the of the German Federal Parliament. forest. In order to underline the demand for an ecolog- ical transition and children’s right to a healthy environ- As a political actor and advocate of children’s rights we ment at the political level, we launched the campaign will stick with this topic and persevere in pressing for »My Planet My Rights« at the political level.