What we bring to the table
We provide help to social aid organizations so they are better able to achieve their goals and pursue sustainable development in their communities. We do it by:
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Assisting Local Staff
Every year our volunteers provide over 70,000 hours of direct, hands-on assistance.
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Promoting Education
We support children’s education and offer additional educational opportunities.
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Gap Year in Germany
We enable alumni from our partner organizations to spend a gap year in Germany.
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Fundraising & Development
We coordinate fundraising for things like computers or libraries.
Our Partners
We provide assistance to local organizations, because we are convinced that social development can only be made permanent if it is home grown. Our partners are deeply rooted in their own communities and are aware of their people’s needs. They put everything they have into their work, because they know it has a direct impact in their own communities.
Here are three wonderful examples of the kinds of work we support:
Corporación Educativa Popular
Cali, Colombia
The CEP provides over 700 children and youths living in extreme poverty not only with an excellent education but also with genuinely bright prospects for the future through university scholarships and jobs. World-Horizon builds on this effort by supporting a model school not only with everyday needs but also by providing talented alumni with the opportunity to serve for a year as a volunteer in a public service project in Germany.
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly
Boston, Chicago, Hancock, USA
Little Brothers is part of a worldwide movement that seeks to bring older people who live alone out of their isolation. With the support of many volunteer helpers, Little Brothers visits the needy at home, helps them with errands, organizes holiday gatherings and provides emergency aid. World-Horizon has been furnishing support for a number of years to Little Brothers programs in Boston, Chicago and Hancock through volunteers willing to give of their time in providing the needy with comprehensive long-term care.
Kliptown Youth Program
Soweto, South Africa
KYP was created in 2007 by then 25-year-old Thulani Madondo, whose goal was to offer children and youth from this poverty-stricken area with all-round child care outside of school by providing tutoring, meals, sports and numerous other activities. Our volunteers assist by lend the local team a helping hand. In addition, we offer talented KYP alumni an opportunity to serve for a year as a volunteer in a public service project in Germany. The KYP project and its founder garnered international attention for their work.
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Our mission
As a young non-profit organization, our goal is to overcome national and ethnic boundaries and to redress social, financial and cultural deprivation. Through direct encounters between people and points-of-view, we are searching for ways to bring about a more peaceful, just and interconnected society.
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💛 Great honor & pleasure to welcome our inspiring friends from the Corporación Educativa Popular Liceo De La Amistad, Funprovidas and the Kliptown Youth Program (KYP) to our 2018 Partner Workshop in Berlin. Three very productive days packed with talks and discussions paving the road ahead. Thank you so much for all the amazing work you do. Have a safe trip home.
This is your chance to make a difference: Become a volunteer and help out at inspiring social aid organizations around the world. Openings still available in Ecuador, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and the US starting this Summer/Fall: https://world-horizon.org/freiwilligendienste
Watching our volunteers Luiz and Arne featured on German national TV channel ZDF. Incredibly proud!
Check out this great article by our alumna Luca who volunteered at the KYP in Soweto, South Africa last year (German only).
Saying good bye to the crew of 2016/17. Thanks so much for the incredible amount of 50,000 hours of volunteering at our inspiring partners all around the world!