FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED ASSOCIATIONS
Since our foundation in 2013, we have been providing financial support to organisations in Germany and abroad that are primarily committed to the education of children and young people in crisis regions around the world. The Werner Erkes Foundation thus makes a small contribution to reducing the existing injustices in the opportunities for education and a self-determined life. We have also supported people in acute disaster areas such as Ukraine and the Ahr Valley.
Jaguaripe e. V.
hildren's aid in Brazil
Focus: Reconstruction
The Jaguaripe support organisation has been successfully supporting kindergartens and schools in Brazil since 2007 - with financial aid, but also with personal commitment on site. Jaguaripe supports measures ranging from building repairs to educational training and places great value on the initiative and independence of all those involved.
Donations are used according to local needs:Emergency aid - for urgent financing requirements such as building repairs after storm damage
Start-up aid - investments for the sustainable development of independent facilities.
Participation - co-financing of maintenance costs for existing facilities
Jaguaripe remains in contact with those responsible even after independence has been achieved - also through personal involvement on site.
2013 - today
Donations > € 110,000
Burundi-Hilfe e. V.
Education centre and other projects
Burundi Hilfe e.V. is a non-profit organisation that has built and maintains the Johannes Wolters Centre (orphanage and education centre) in Burundi. Burundi Hilfe enables children and young adults to receive a qualified education!
At the Johannes Wolters Centre, children receive learning support and young adults receive their first vocational qualification, such as courses to become a tailor or basket weaver.
Burundi Hilfe offers scholarships for students of various disciplines.
Burundi Aid has financed classrooms and training centres for prospective farmers. These are located in the ETEE agricultural school in the province of Ngozi, which is run by the partner organisation Fondation Stamm.
2013 - 2023
Donation amount > € 150,000
Lahai-Roi e. V.
Direct emergency aid in Romania and Ukraine
Many people in north-east Romania live in catastrophic conditions. Mud huts that barely protect them from the rain! Lack of work and prospects!
Loitering children! Fathers - who squander the little money they have on alcohol! These are all impressions that describe the situation in the villages around the city of Iasi in north-east Romania.
Lahai-Roi e.V. has set itself the task of helping poor local people out of Christian charity. The aid should be material, sustainable, but also life-changing and spiritual.
In addition to making our boarding school available free of charge, the Werner Erkes Foundation provides financial support for their family work and disaster relief.
2013 - today
Donations > € 160,000
Majaoni Rescue Centre e. V.
Orphanage in Mombasa (Kenya)
The Majaoni Rescue Centre (MRC) is a children's aid project that helps abused and mistreated children and orphans. The MRC provides counselling for sexually and physically abused orphans and poor children and offers them a new home.
The organisation was founded in July 2010 and is located in Bamburi, Mombasa district, Kenya. The children there receive everything they need from infancy to independence as part of an overall concept, so to speak: Love and security, food, accommodation and medical care. They regularly attend kindergarten, school and church. WES supported the organisation around Barbara Ernst in the completion of the orphanage.
2018 - 2021
Donation amount > € 50,000
Studieren ohne Grenzen e. V.
Higher education in crisis regions
Studying Without Borders is committed to higher education in crisis regions. It awards scholarships to students in need, helps to improve the educational infrastructure and aims to raise public awareness of the situation in the project regions.
With its voluntary work, it aims to support young people in contributing to the reconstruction of their home countries. Together with the scholarship holders, Studying without Borders aims to contribute to the peaceful and sustainable development of countries and regions suffering from war and its consequences.
2019 - today
Donation amount > € 20,000
Sewasewe Genet
Homeless shelters in Ethiopia
The main aim of this NGO is to help and give hope to those who are unable to support themselves due to old age, mental illness and lack of parents. It also supports young students who come from far away in search of education (kolo temaris) and who spend the night without shelter and feed themselves by begging. All these people could become productive members of society if they received adequate support, basic medical care and the education they desire. The second goal is to try and make the organisation sustainable by introducing some income generating projects. Two projects have already started and are still at a very early stage. They need both technical and financial support from donors to be successful.
2019 - 2022
Donation amount > € 35,000
PSZ Düsseldorf
Psychosocial Centre for Refugees e.V.
The Psychosocial Centre Düsseldorf is a counselling and therapy facility for traumatised and mentally distressed refugees. Every year, around 1,000 people from over 50 countries find support here in more than 20 languages. The need is greater than the centre's capacity.
In order to improve the care of all refugees, the PSZ offers further training for professionals and volunteers in the health, social and youth sectors on trauma, asylum-specific and transcultural topics. The PSZ is a non-profit organisation that was founded in 1987 and is a member of the "Diakonisches Werk Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe e. V. - Diakonie RWL" and thus also affiliated to the national umbrella organisation "Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e. V." (EWDE).
2019 - today
Donation amount > € 20,000
Ayudis e. V.
Humanitarian projects in Europe
Ayudis is dedicated to humanitarian projects and has set itself the task of addressing the fate of children and young people and improving their living conditions.
2021 - 2022
Donation amount € 8,000
Eine Welt Netz
NRW e. V.
Together for the world development goals
Eine Welt Netz NRW wants global risks to be recognised as a common challenge. That is why they are committed to global solidarity with partners in the global South. In NRW, they support the commitment to the necessary transformations, e.g. in climate protection and world trade.
2022
Donation amount € 40,000
Light for the world - Licht für die Welt e. V.
Light for the World is an international aid organisation for eye health and inclusive development cooperation in Africa. The organisation establishes medical care, enables education for all children and strengthens the rights of people with disabilities in society, the world of work and politics.
The steady loss of sight and even blindness is most common in low-income countries. The rate of untreated eye diseases there is 90%, with sub-Saharan Africa being particularly affected.
1.1 billion people have a visual impairment
43 million people worldwide are blind
90% of people can be helped
2022
Donation amount € 5,000
Peru-Aktion e. V.
The project was founded around 30 years ago in the hinterland of Peru in the Pasco region to provide young people from the poorest families with a good education.
Peru-Aktion acquired a former estate (hacienda) of almost 700 hectares, whose trees had been cut down or burnt down by previous owners and which no longer generated any significant economic income. The buildings of the estate, which is over 100 years old, were gradually remodelled and extended. The deforested or burnt down mountain forest was gradually reforested. Young people between the ages of 11 and 17 from very poor families far from suitable schools are given the opportunity to attend state secondary school - otherwise a privilege few have in Peru.
2022
Donation amount € 20,000
Besa e. V.
Humanitarian projects in Europe
Ayudis is dedicated to humanitarian projects and makes it its mission to take up the fate of children and young people and improve their living conditions.
2021 - 2022
Donation amount € 8,000
YOBAC
We are delighted that our support has helped to keep the primary school running in the refugee camp in Kyangwali on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The NGO YOBAC was founded in 2016 by young people from various countries such as Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan, who are currently living in the Kyangwali Refugee Camp. YOBAC is dedicated to educating war orphans and youth in the refugee settlements and host communities to empower the vulnerable and address the root causes of poverty. Today, the Youth Organisation For Building African Communities (YOBAC) is a voluntary, non-profit youth organisation in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Hoima District, Uganda.
2023
Donation amount € 10,000
NOBE Nkamba
Organisation for Better Education
Kindergarten and primary school
After just a few months, the construction of the nursery school in Nkamba was completed alongside the primary school. All the rooms are furnished so that the little ones can enjoy a playful education and a daily hot meal from the summer. NOBE was officially recognised as an NGO on 08.09.2022. This non-governmental organisation has the following main objectives:
- To promote co-operation, partnership and assistance between private individuals or groups in Germany and Rwanda in particular and the rest of the world in general, in the field of education and in the socio-economic field.
2023
Donation amount € 42,000
Düsseldorf teilt e. V.
There is also poverty in Düsseldorf.
The organisation has set itself the task of supporting the numerous local projects, associations and initiatives that help people in need in Düsseldorf. The organisation is supported by a large network of volunteers, supporters from the business community and Düsseldorf associations as well as the city of Düsseldorf.
Together with all the people of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf shares its desire to ensure that a dignified life worth living is also possible on the margins of society. This can only be achieved in partnership with the many fantastic associations and initiatives that work locally in Düsseldorf for people in need.
2020 - 2023
Donation amount € 10,000
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Werner Erkes Foundation Southwest Africa: Volkan Sazli, E-Mail: sazli@erkes.de
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Werner Erkes Foundation West Africa: Dr. Djiby Diouf: E-Mail: diouf@erkes.de
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