{"id":4085,"date":"2021-09-09T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:22:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2132 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pug-Logo-222x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"203\" \/>Goal of the association: bringing young people from African countries and Germany in contact.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe association supports school exchanges and international youth meetings in extracurricular education. It emerged from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsm-bremen.de\/index.php\/Afrika.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa-Project of GSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We usually meet every one to two months to discuss our actions. Anyone interested in participating can simply contact us using the contact form: <a href=\"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/about\/contact\/\">Kontaktformular<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The registered office of the non-profit association is in Bremen.<\/p>\n<p>Our atatute <a href=\"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Satzung-10.pdf\">Satzung<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bank account:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>GLS Bank<br \/>\nAccount holder: Partner \u00fcber Grenzen e.V.<br \/>\nIBAN: DE10 4306 0967 2066 6774 00<\/p>\n<h1>Donate<\/h1>\n<p>are always welcome \ud83d\ude42 You can transfer this directly to our account given above. <strong>The donation is tax deductible. <\/strong>The transfer receipt up to an amount of 200 \u20ac is recognized by the tax office. If the donation is higher, we will send you a donation receipt. However, this is only possible if an address was given with the transfer to which the donation receipt should be sent!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>To our work:<\/em> why does the association exist and what are we committed to (sorry, in German;): <a href=\"https:\/\/daj.engagement-global.de\/interview-mit-eckardt-kreye.html\">https:\/\/daj.engagement-global.de\/interview-mit-eckardt-kreye.html<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff2600;\">The out of the box &#8211; program recieved the <\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bridge-it.net\/awards\/award-2017\/\">bridge-<i class=\"\">it!<\/i> award in 2017<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, the special award in 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/bridge-it.net\/profil\/out-of-the-box\/\">Sonderpreis von bridge-<em>it!<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On June 9, 2022, Peter Ndolo (MYFF, our partner organization in Nairobi) and Ecki Kreye gave a practical impulse with the following presentation during a conference at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany in Berlin, on the question of what the added value is, to work on a topic such as the climate crisis with a school in the Global South, compared with the work on the topic with another school in Germany.<br \/>\nHere the presentation<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8mRLmPTBM_U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you want to contact us, please use the contact form;) <a href=\"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/contact\/\">Kontaktformular<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal of the association: bringing young people from African countries and Germany in contact. The association supports school exchanges and international youth meetings in extracurricular education. It emerged from the Africa-Project of GSM. We usually meet every one to two months to discuss our actions. Anyone interested in participating can simply contact us using the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/en\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8CDKE-13T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4181,"url":"https:\/\/partner-ueber-grenzen.de\/en\/about\/history\/","url_meta":{"origin":4085,"position":0},"title":"History","author":"Ecki","date":"7. 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