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en.kindernothilfe.org Annual report 2011 Page 02 CONTENT > ANNUAL REPORT 2011 Contents Annual report 2011 > Page 04 > Page 07 > Page 08 > Page 13 > Page 14 03 With the children for a future worth living 10 Concrete help Kindernothilfe: Identity, goals, support Our work in 30 countries 04 We listen to children 12 Projects abroad Report of the board of directors Examples from six countries 07 It is now official: children can complain to the UN 18 Financial report UNHCR approves Optional Protocol to the Convention on Consolidated total balance of the association and foundation the Rights of the Child 20 Global aid 08 Horn of Africa Countries, projects, children Humanitarian aid today and yesterday Accounts Masthead Bank für Kirche und Publisher: Diakonie eG – KD-Bank Stadtsparkasse Duisburg Kindernothilfe e.V. Translation: Kevin O’Byrne Düsseldorfer Landstraße 180 Account: 45 45 40 Account: 201 004 488 47249 Duisburg, Deutschland Print: Knipp GmbH Sort code: 350 601 90 Sort code: 350 500 00 IBAN: DE92 3506 0190 0000 4545 40 Telephone: 00 49.203.7789-0 BIC: GENODED1DKD In order to make this publication Fax: 00 49.203.7789-118 smoother to read, no distinction has been made between the With consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Info-Service: 00 49.203.7789-111 feminine and masculine forms of nouns. In all cases, however, E-mail: [email protected] women as well as men are referred to. Donation Seal of Quality Editors: Gunhild Aiyub (Editor in Chief), Kindernothilfe handles donations in a trustworthy Guido Oßwald (Financial report) manner. Every year since 1992 this has been officially PricewaterhouseCoopers confirmed by the Seal of Quality for charitable Design: Ralf Krämer Transparency Prize 2010 organisations awarded by the German Central Kindernothilfe was awarded Institute for Social issues (DZI). This certifies its finan- Front page first prize cial responsibility and statutory use of donations photo: Jacob Studnar IDENTITY AND GOALS > ANNUAL REPORT 2011 Page 03 With the Children for a Future worth living Our origin Kindernothilfe began its work in 1959 with five sponsored children in In- dia. Today we reach and support 779,540 children and youngsters in 30 countries on four continents. 90 per cent of the association’s funds are provided by around 100,000 donors. As a Christian child aid organisation, we are a member of the Diaconical Work of the Evangelical Church in Rhineland and we see our work as part of the global ecumenical develop- ment co-operation. The Help we offer The help we offer begins with basic needs: food, medical care, integration in a community and education in a wider sense. The projects are based on long-term planning and work to improve living conditions in a sustaina- ble manner. Hence, we support children through sponsorships which al- low for long-term aid and are therefore an effective form of support. Be- cause through these, children are supported in their own environment, and an entire village can develop or a slum district can change. Help for Jakob Studnar Jakob self-help overcomes dependence and strengthens self-responsibility. Foto: Foto: Our Partners Kindernothilfe itself is not the holder of projects abroad but works on the basis of co-operation contracts with local, generally Christian organisa- tions. The 283 partners are responsible for managing the work of the pro- jects. The partners and projects are obliged to submit budgets and plans for the year, as well as an annual report and a financial report approved by an independent auditor. In addition, regular visits are paid to the part- ners and projects in order to backstop progress, to assess and evaluate the work done and to check the use of funds through financial audits. The Goals we follow Together with children and youngsters who live in poverty, we work to- wards a future free of destitution, violence or abuse. Boys and girls need KNH-Partner protection and support. But they also have their own ideas and plans on Foto: how to overcome deprivation and poverty. That is why their participation is essential. We work towards strengthening the self-esteem of children on their way to leading independent lives. The UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child serves as the basis of our work – the focus of our work being children at risk: street children, working children, child soldiers, aids orphans, sexually abused and exploited children, and those who suf- fer exclusion because of various disabilities. In Germany we are actively involved in national and international campaigns and alliances to achieve the global implementation of child rights. Our information and teaching material aims at informing the public at large about the situation of young people in developing countries and enabling them to take devel- opment political measures. Lennart Wallrich You will find detailed information about our work on our homepage Foto: http://en.kindernothilfe.org/ Page 04 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS > ANNUAL REPORT 2011 We listen to children Children have the right to be heard and to be actors of their own lives. This sentence was in a preamble added to Kindernothilfe’s statutes in 2011. Disaster relief for the Horn of Africa, protection of children in project work as well as the implementation of ecological child rights were some of the focuses of our work in 2011. Preamble to statutes: “We involve children in motivation in the fight against poverty, our partner organisations were held in India programmes and projects as well as in particularly among children, to the imple- in co-operation with the Karl-Kübel Trust, and Kindernothilfe’s public awareness work and mentation of Children’s Rights in our work at also in Malawi. The working team drew up a we listen to them.” This is written in the home and abroad. To show this connection proposal on how all our partners could preamble which was passed by a clear clearly, the above mentioned preamble was continue training in the field of child majority at the members’ meeting on 14 May prefixed to the statutes. The placing of protection. In accordance with an agreement 2011. Since its registration in the register of children at the centre by Jesus as stated in reached at the Duisburg headquarters associations in January 1961, Kindernothilfe the bible is reflected in the spirit of the UN between management, staff representatives has been working with statutes which, in the Convention for the Rights of the Child in that and human resources management, all staff course of time, have needed to be adapted to children should be involved in all matters members were obliged to submit a certificate the changes in the association’s programmes that affect them. “Listening to children” of good conduct ( as per par. 30a of German and in the association itself. The basic opens up a dialogue with them. Right from law on records) by 1 October 2011. Without statement of the statutes, however, has the start, young people are seen as bearers of exception, all members of the staff complied remained the same, i.e. to awaken charity rights and are to be taken seriously. Their with this within the stipulated time. and responsibility for children and youth in potential is boosted by their participation. The child protection concept is to be passed need. Since 2004/2005 the different fields of This means that children, despite their bitter by the board of directors and the board of work have oriented to a common strategic need, are no longer seen as victims but are trustees in 2012. It will constitute the basis framework which clearly defines the com- encouraged to be the actors of their own for the content and form of our work and will plexity of the work as well as the inner lives and in the community they live in. set procedural guidelines for prevention as coherence of fundamental values, mission, well as for concrete case management. vision, and guidelines. The revised strategy Protection of the child: As a child aid and The sexual abuse of children is a brutal framework was signed on 20 May 2011 in a child rights’ organisation we are committed violation of children and their rights. Kinder- common declaration by all Kindernothilfe to the protection of children. Since 2011 a nothilfe’s ambassador Natalia Wörner and organisations (associations and trusts in working team with four groups headed by Kai Rose, member of the board of trustees, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Swit- Jörg Lichtenberg, who is particularly qualified found drastic examples of child abuse during zerland) at their annual conference in Vienna. in this field, has been working intensively on their visit of our partner Ripples Interna- The main focus of the revision was to connect this issue. Three in-house information tional in Kenya. The actress appeared in a the message of the gospel as mission and sessions took place and training courses for “donation marathon” in the German TV pro- Kindernothilfe and their partners let children have their say. Foto: Kindernothilfe-Partner Foto: Page 05 gramme “RTL – Wir helfen Kindern (We help a decision was taken by the board of trustees In April 2011 a group comprising of staff from children)” as sponsor of Ripples shelter for in November 2011 to also start work in the inland and overseas departments abused and seriously traumatised children. Somalia. As early as 2009, Kindernothilfe had travelled to Ethiopia to work out ways to Ripples will use the donations to build a new already made enquires about the possibility present and report SHGs (self-help-groups) shelter. of supporting projects in Somaliland. Since to our sponsors and donors.