Action Five e.V. (Bonn)

Action five Bonn eV is a charitable non-governmental organization exclusively with volunteers. The five in the name stands for the idea of ​​symbolic use five percent of income or time for self-help projects in developing countries. The seat of the registered and non-profit association is Bonn. The chairmen are currently Eva -Maria Käter, Timothy Chukwukelu and Marie -José French

Founding and goals

The club was founded in 1978. He works as a volunteer, regardless of religious objectives and political ideologies. The projects should be aimed at the welfare of the people in the project sites. Except for the administrative costs are very low, according to its own statement of the association, to flow all financial contributions to the funded projects. Since the club initiative is important, he sends himself no helpers in the projects that it supports with donations, but maintains contact with the projects supported through letters, e- mails and phone calls upright. All projects funded over time have come through privately funded visits about. The initiative promoted by the action five eV Bonn projects is also not from the club itself, but from local people who have ideas to regional development. According to its website annually donate about a hundred donors 35000-40000 euros for selected projects, such as in Haiti, Nepal and Namibia.

With more than four times appearing in newsletters, the association donors and other interested parties informed of its funded projects.

Projects

Action five carries out projects in Africa (Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria). Similarly partner organizations in Brazil, Haiti, Argentina and Guatemala are supported. In Asia projects in India and Nepal are encouraged. In Germany supports the action five South Asian Association eV office in its work.