Food for hungry stomachs, not for the trash

About 20 million tons of food are annually thrown into the trash in Germany. The so-called "Tafeln" made it into their task to serve the poorest inhabitants with what society overproduces - for example in Hamburg.

Against violence and suppression in the name of honour

In 2007, the project HEROES started. Its aim was and is to work with young men (17 to 23) with a migration backgroud and with the will to take responsibility against physical and mental violence and the will to campaign for equality of men and women.

The ZWERG NASE house's offer is unique in Germany

Holidays for the children and the occasion to relax and get new power for their relatives: families caring for their seriously ill children find relief, help and time for themselves by making use of the short term care offer of the ZWERG NASE house in Wiesbaden.

Beschützerinstinkte e.V. improves the relation between people and dogs

Dogs never stop loving. Dogs always have time. They give the feeling to be needed. Dogs comfort and understand. They break up with the vicious circle of loneliness and sadness. For a dog, it is not important if someone is poor or rich, sick or disabled.

The Felix Burda Foundation is devoted to the prevention of bowel cancer

In an early stage, bowel cancer does not cause discomforts, so that only a regular preventive care can protect from this disease from which only in Germany, 26,000 people die on every year. The Felix Burda Foundation is the most known charitable institution in this area.

A silent catastrophe: malnutrition in the Sahel

According to estimations, more than one million children in eight countries are threatened by severe malnutrition in the next months. Because of droughts, poor harvests, high food costs and extreme poverty, many families cannot feed themselves with enough food.

A place in the classroom for every child

Every child has a right on education. Though, in African countries south of the Sahara, every third child does not attend school. Many families are too poor to pay the school material for their children. Qualified teachers are missing and the AIDS epidemic tightens the situation-

For the children's right on water

Clear drinking water and hygienic life cirumstances are essential for survival and a premise for the healthy upgrowth of children. And it saves time and power for school, when children do not need to take hours to get clear water. 

ClearWater has the aim to provide water to native people

ClearWater has the aim to provide water to more than 2,000 native people and farmers living in 20 small villages in a contaminated Amazon area in Ecuador. The lack of clear water does not only lead to health threats.

A better future for children in Niger

Niger belongs to the five poorest countries in the world. Since 1991, the SOS Children's Villages are working in Niger, afther the ministry of social affairs provided a property on the brink of the capital city, Niamey, in 1990. In total, SOS in Niger supports more than 10,000 children and their relatives.