Unexpectedly Pregnant? What Now?

Life rarely goes according to plan, and often requires assistance Berlin, November 30, 2009 – a young woman becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she often faces a mountain of questions and concerns. But families today into emergency. Sometimes all of a sudden, the economic situation changes such as by plant closure, short-time work or unemployment. Don’t forget you may the many single parents, who are increasingly threatened by poverty. For 16 years, there is a foundation that helps the people of this State as possible quickly and unbureaucratically in Thuringia, Germany. The Thuringian Foundation HandinHand attempting to assist those affected in the individual emergencies and to mitigate the existing problems with the help of Foundation money or to eliminate them as possible. To achieve this goal, the Foundation works with numerous information centres, which are the seeking help as a point of contact available on-site. The Thuringian Foundation HandinHand to a wider public with the turns in a great campaign Aim to get more money for a good cause.

A measure is the offer to send a small amount to the Foundation via SMS. Now go ask the people: send an SMS with HAND on the speed dial of 8 11 90 and support the Thuringian Foundation HandinHand with 3 EURO (plus the normal SMS transport fee.) It go directly 2.83 EUR to the Foundation. This is a service of spendino GmbH). About spendino the spendino GmbH is a service company for the non-profit sector. The young company aims to reduce the fundraising and to increase the volume of donations without additional investment. spendino enables the processing of SMS and online donations and positioned itself as a neutral partner for the non-profit organizations in Germany. Thus, the only provider in Germany, which specializes in the use of mobile technologies for social purposes is spendino. Your contact person: Florian Noll Tel.: 030 / 450 20 522 mobile: 0176 77 55 55 89 email:

Donate

Developing countries need more than ever our support in difficult times. The economic crisis of 2008/09 meets the world’s poor nations particularly hard that’s why because it is a banking crisis at the same time. So the crisis not destroys the economic advances of recent years, donations are now particularly important. During bad economic times many social and humanitarian organizations depend heavily on monetary and in-kind donations. This especially applies to those organizations that are committed to the people in the “developing countries”. Because while the rich countries of the world is comparatively well able to withstand crisis (and the budgets even invest in some sectors to stimulate the economy again), the poor countries have no comparable resources. A special feature of the global economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 is that it is also a banking crisis. This fact exacerbates the effects for the developing countries, because those States – already with equipped with low credit – have now even more difficult to borrow money on the international financial markets.

Cornered between the falling economy on the one hand and acute financial distress on the other hand, the small room for manoeuvre of the “third world” Governments are reduced to a minimum. The described situation endangered the quite visible progress that many countries have achieved in the past decades in the fight against hunger, poverty and illiteracy. Many African countries had achieved good results in the recent Vergangenenheit – with international help, but also thanks to its own efforts – now at stake. Therefore, it is very important that the generosity of the German population still does not allow to, even if the personal situation for many citizens of the economic crisis is threatened. All support measures, which help to stabilize the local economies and to help the people of acute in affected are useful during the crisis. Latter include for example donations for children who are often extremely fast and severely affected by increasing poverty. However, many donor agencies about such donations, which are dedicated to any express purpose, because these financial resources can be flexibly inserted forward. Jurgen Reschke

Berlin Trade

Consumers have the choice: dirty or fair chocolate! Consumers have it in hand, permanently to change working conditions. Fair trade products, the socially responsible cultivation is condition, i.e. a reasonable payment, no slavery, no illegal child labor, and no harmful working methods. The exclusive purchase of chocolate fair trade seals is currently the inzig reliable way to improve the living conditions of peasant families and children. In the fair trade commercial smallholder farmers receive a minimum price of plus higher revenues if the world market price is higher than the minimum price. So far however two percent of all chocolate items in Germany but are not even fair trade products.

Consumers are urged to buy only these chocolate products. About fair trade and sustainable chocolate: as a fair trade a controlled trading referred to, where the prices for the products traded are commonly used on about the respective price. Thus, you should enable a higher and more reliable income as in the traditional commercial producers. In the production of international environmental and social standards – should are respected with regard to child labour – what should be checked also externally. Traditionally, the fair trade deals with agricultural products exported from developing countries to developed countries. While fair trade is now common in cocoa, chocolate fair “so far little offered. In June 2012, the “Forum sustainable cocoa” therefore started in Berlin.

The German Government, cocoa processing industry and trade, certification and development aid organisations and representatives of civil society in the “Forum sustainable cocoa” together find ways to improve the environmental and social situation in the cocoa-growing significantly. The Bonn ForestFinance group, provider of sustainable investment product CacaoInvest”, is a founding member of the initiative. CacaoInvest with triple return – financially, environmentally and socially: CacaoInvest is an eco investment offer of the Bonn ForestFinance investing where in, fair and ecological cultivation of fine cocoa and hardwood trees.