WHO ARE WE?

The Anti-Violence Centre Harz (AGZ) is an association active in civil society, registered as an independent youth welfare organisation. The AGZ works from the centre of society.

The focus of the work is on:
• Conflict prevention and conflict management
• Promotion of the understanding of democracy
• Global learning. *A new pillar of work, within the AGZ

Within the framework of global learning, the AGZ cooperates with civil society organisations in Namibia and pursues the following goals with its international engagement:

• Imparting knowledge on postcolonial issues, such as global justice (distribution of wealth around the world).

• Experiencing other life worlds, for young adults from the district of Harz, in the sense of the leitmotif "Think globally - act locally!"

THE SOUPKITCHEN

The soup kitchen works in Katutura, a district of the Namibian capital Windhoek, where precarious living conditions prevail to a large extent. Poverty is present. A team of about 15 - 18 volunteers cook regularly for about 200 children from the neighbourhood out of an overseas container at a community centre.

For some years now, the Namibian NGO Creabuntu and the German NGO KENIAL have been cooperating with the soup kitchen and expanding the services for the children. The members of Creabuntu facilitate dance and art workshops and offer low-threshold socio-educational services.

• Experiencing other life worlds, for young adults from the district of Harz, in the sense of the leitmotif "Think globally - act locally!"

OUR CONTRIBUTION

Once upon a time ... various people from Germany experienced the soup kitchen through various contacts and developed the desire to support its work financially, including members of the AGZ.

The strength of the association is the close friendly and personal contact to volunteers of the soup kitchen and to people and organisations in Namibia who support the soup kitchen locally.

We offer donors from Germany the opportunity to bundle their donations and regularly forward them to the soup kitchen in order to achieve more impact.

Thereby we can guarantee that:
• 100% of the donations reach the soup kitchen and the greatest possible transparency is created,

• no other structures are financed, and

• ideas are developed with the volunteers of the soup kitchen and the Creabuntu association to improve the conditions for the children.

The local, personal connection to the people on the ground is the strength of the AGZ and creates trust on both sides of the different living environments.