AWO International

AWO International e.V. describes itself as the Fachverband (specialist association) of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, promoting projects in development cooperation and humanitarian aid, drawing on the AWO's 100 years of specialist expertise. Working closely with national non-governmental organisations, it states that it has worked since 1998 so that disadvantaged people can sustainably improve their living conditions. In disasters it engages in humanitarian emergency relief and reconstruction, and domestically it addresses globalisation through development-policy education and information work. It also supports fair trade and offers fairly traded and ecologically produced products. Its board works on an honorary basis and is normally re-elected every four years by the members' assembly, and its action office in Berlin has a team of seventeen, five of them part-time.

AWO International e.V. states that it is the Fachverband of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and promotes projects in development cooperation and humanitarian aid, relying on the AWO's 100 years of specialist expertise. It says that, in close cooperation with national non-governmental organisations, it has worked since 1998 so that disadvantaged people can sustainably improve their living conditions. In the event of disasters it engages in humanitarian emergency relief and reconstruction, and domestically it takes up the challenges and opportunities of globalisation through development-policy education and information work. It also advocates fair trade and offers fairly traded and ecologically produced products. Its board bears responsibility for the association's tasks and works on an honorary basis, normally being re-elected every four years by the members' assembly. Its action office in Berlin has a team of seventeen, five of them part-time, coordinating and monitoring projects in development cooperation and humanitarian aid, conducting development-policy education and public relations work, and advising members on their own projects abroad.

Fachverband of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt active in development cooperation and humanitarian aid, guided by the AWO's values of freedom, equality, justice, solidarity and tolerance.

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