outreach | social engagement

Despite limited means, navreme is also committed to support those in most need. Instead of Christmas presents, gadgets or cards, we send the equivalent amount to organisations with worthwhile and noble aims, which help or support those in need or the poor:

In 2008, we "glocalised" our social engagement, and support "womenscooperation", an NGO active in this very district of Vienna. See their web-site www.womenscooperation.at - and join us with your donation!

From their office two roads away from our new office with factline, they match initiatives of local women, migrant women and women's initiatives in Africa and Asia.

In January 2009, we will visit and evaluate a project in India, but we hope to run some more intensive cooperation with them in the future!

In 2007 we sent our contribution to the Sakharov Center in Moscow. This Center hosts a library, features a standing exhibition on Russian history, and undertakes important educational activities in the fields of democracy and Human Rights.

However, its existence is under threat due to reduced funding from various sources. During a recent mission, a visit was paid to the Center, and the decision matured to support this important voice in the Russian society with our yearly donation.

In 2006, our choice was for Junior Achievement Georgia, a NGO dedicated to support orphanes from the civil wars of the 1990s. Kutaisi is the second city in Georgia, a former industrial centre, with today an appalling rate of unemployment.

Those who suffer most are marginalised children. We visited the NGO and its coordinator Madona Tsintsade in Kutaisi during a mission in June 2006, and are convinced of the need for and seriousness of their work.

In 2005, we provided an emergency shelter for at least one Pakistani family, who was hit by a devastating earthquake.

Gerhard Schaumberger, a navreme collaborator, was in Muzafarabat then, to organise emergency aid on behalf of Hilfswerk Austria, a relief NGO. He personally guaranteed that the money arrived where it is most needed in Pakistan. Some partner organisations followed this option after our initiative.

In 2004, our contribution was sent to the Transnational Network for Peace (TFF), seated in Lund (SE), and coordinated by Jan Oberg, a restless peace activist and colleague in the faculty of the European Peace University. Visit their web-site with information of their world-wide activity at www.tff.org or transnational.org - and get inspired by their insprigin motto: FOR PEACE WITH PASSSION, - and with peaceful means!".

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