|Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need
The special UNESCO program "Education for Children in Need" has been standing up for poor children since 1992, providing them with school and vocational education for a brighter future.Each year UNESCO Special Ambassador Dr. h.c. Ute-Henriette Ohoven travels to the places in which children fight for their lives under worst conditions. She takes them by their hands, helps, and gives them a voice: The young girl in Calcutta who is forced to prostitute herself. The half grown boy in Sarajevo who lost both of his legs during civil war. The little boy in an African refugee camp who has been spending all of his life behind barbed wire. The street children of Bucharest who are living in the drains to survive winter. The little Indio girl in Guatemala who is a mother herself already at the age of ten. The mentally challenged Bulgarian child who wastes away in an orphanage with no care, no love.
Foundation for UNESCO has already helped the children mentioned above and many thousands more with over 362 projects in 95 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.
Helping others to help themselves is the principle all of these projects are based on. Only school and vocational education can convert short term survival support into a long lasting start-up aid for the future. To implement these projects in a professional way is the job of Foundation for UNESCO experts all over the world as well as the local partner organizations the foundation is working with.
The main part of the private donations for "Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need" is raised in Germany, but other neighboring countries contribute. More than 40 million US$ since 1992!
Who donates?
Famous sportsmen as e.g. Michael Schumacher or the Klitschko brothers, artists who perform for free on Dr. h.c. Ute-Henriette Ohoven´s annual UNESCO Charity Gala; important companies; but also a broad range of the population who support one of the fund raising campaigns of newspapers such as the Passauer Neue Presse, the Westfalenpost or the Rheinzeitung. Donations can also be made online.
Would you like to help?
In order to be able to accept donations and to guarantee transparency and detailed reporting the "Foundation for UNESCO - Education for Children in Need" was founded as a non profit organization according to German law. The foundation is located in Düsseldorf. It enjoys official status by the UNESCO, which is represented in the board of trustees together with the German UNESCO Commission.
Board of Directors of the foundation: Wolfgang Fischer, Michael Ohoven
