[Vorstand] Fwd: future of the ewe's voluntary services in Germany and Zambia

[Guido Schürenberg]

SEhr formal!



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Betreff: 	Re: future of the ewe's voluntary services in Germany and Zambia
Datum: 	Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:15:03 +0200
Von: 	Monze Diocese <monzedirector.caritas at gmail.com>
An: 	Guido Schürenberg <guido.schuerenberg at eine-welt-erleben.de>
Kopie (CC): 	Agness simooloka <agysmooloka at yahoo.com>, Chrisencia Mkume 
<cmkume at gmail.com>, eine-welt-erleben, Vorstand 
<vorstand at eine-welt-erleben.de>



Dear Guido,

Thank you for your message and the detailed update on the future of the 
ewe's voluntary services in Germany and Zambia. We acknowledge the 
gravity of this decision and understand its implications for our 
longstanding cooperation with you.

We affirm our commitment to support your declaration on the future of 
these projects at the general meeting you had. Your dedication to 
intercultural exchange over the past decades has been exceptional, and 
we respect the Board's decision in this challenging context.

Looking ahead, we stand ready to collaborate on expanding the School Fee 
project and exploring new opportunities in education and other projects. 
We really appreciate 🙏 and God bless you 🙏.

Warm regards,

Fr. Ackim Musimuko
Caritas Monze

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 15:12 Guido Schürenberg 
<guido.schuerenberg at eine-welt-erleben.de> wrote:

    Dear ewe team in Zambia,

    Tonight, at the ewe's general meeting, we will have to make a
    statement on the future of the ewe's voluntary services in Germany
    and Zambia.

    As this is of great importance for our cooperation, which has
    existed for almost 30 years, and has implications for the joint
    organisation of our partnership with Caritas of the Diocese of
    Monze, we would like to send you this declaration at the same time.

    On 14 January this year, we already described the difficult
    situation for incoming Zambian volunteers and the low level of
    interest in outgoing German volunteers to Zambia.

    The background to this was the lack of interested and suitable
    candidates for a voluntary year with the ewe (and its special
    concept of cultural integration via families) in Zambia. In
    addition, the political framework conditions had changed
    (significant savings in the funding programmes and considerable
    administrative effort in accounting and quality standards).
    As a purely voluntary organisation, we had reached the limits of our
    capacity - financially and especially in terms of personnel.
    The incoming programme for Zambian volunteers was also at risk in
    terms of its essential framework conditions (host families,
    accompanying the volunteers, contribution to the costs of the
    placement, arbitrary visa allocation, the Zambian candidates'
    unwillingness to learn German intensively as an everyday language of
    communication and the latent everyday racism in our German society).
    In addition, there were annual cuts of over 50 million euros in the
    so-called voluntary domestic services, meaning that the number of
    posts had to be significantly reduced.

    The Executive Board's decision to remain in the weltwärts funding
    programme had to be made by 31 May of this year, as recertification
    was required, which alone costs €5,000, plus the volunteer time of
    around 60 working hours for the necessary adaptation and adjustment
    to a new quality criteria and documentation system.
    Among other things, a decision had to be made by today for the
    incoming area, as Irmela, who has been responsible for this area for
    many years, is definitely leaving and no foreseeable successor is
    guaranteed. See also above for the general conditions.

    After almost 30 and 25 successful years of intercultural volunteer
    exchanges with the special concept, the Board has therefore decided
    to end these ewe projects and will bring this to the attention of
    the General Assembly.

    The new board to be elected by the members this evening will reflect
    on the successful volunteer work of the past almost 30 years in
    intercultural exchange with Zambian and German young people with you
    the ewe-Team in Zambia and recognise its importance.

    In the area of project work, we will try to expand the School Fee -
    project and, if necessary and possible, realise further development
    projects, particularly in the education and training sector with our
    partners in Zambia.

    We very much regret this necessary decision, but see no responsible
    option.

    With thoughtful and sad regards for the ewe Board

    Guido

    -- 
    Guido Schürenberg
    ewe-Vorsitzender
    www.eine-welt-erleben.de  <http://www.eine-welt-erleben.de>
    52305 Düren
    Postfach 100523
    mobil: +49 176 57756953


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