Germany

National Website:  www.deine-stimme-gegen-armut.de (German)

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National Coalition: "Deine Stimme gegen Armut"

For more information, or to get involved, please contact Ulrich Schlenker, Co-ordinator, +49-30-24632105, u.schlenker@venro.org.

The campaign position paper "Stand by your commitments" is the political basis of the campaign. It was written in a participatory process by experts of German development NGOs in June 2008. Download English Version.

The brochure "Campaigns, Impressions, Politics 2005 - 2007" is a documentation about the work of GCAP Germany in the past three years. Download English Version (2,5 mb; published Feb. 2008). A German Version is available in digital or printed version.

2008 Events

G8 in Japan - Tanabata

Hand-over of New Year's Card to Japanese Embassy

A traditional New Year's Card to the Japanese Government was handed over on January 29 to the Japanese Embassy in Berlin.

Dorothy Ngoma, Executive director of National Nurses and Midwives Association of Malawi handed over the Postcard to Minister Mr Yoshinori Fujiyama, Director of Economic, Social and Development Affairs Division on behalf of GCAP Germany. The text on the card calls the Japanese Government to use the G8 presidency to fight global poverty. Similar cards were sent by other GCAP platforms in most of the G8 countries.

2005 Events

WHITE BAND DAY II - September 2005

On Friday September 9th, for the second White Band Day, the German GCAP coalition, “Deine Stimme Gegen Armut” presented to Chancellor Schröder the 300,000 names that they have collected this year. Reinhard Hermle requested that the Chancellor personally calls for greater and renewed efforts to meet the MDGs at the UN Summit in New York.

Throughout the year, campaign supporters have given their “voices against poverty” by adding signatures and messages to giant white bands at events and campaign moments around the country this year. On September 9th, hundreds of these activists also came together in front of the Bundestag and joined the pieces of signed white material together to form a 800 meter long white band, calling for world leaders to do more to end poverty now.

Thousands of German citizens displayed large white bands and campaigning at festivals and cultural events in regions across Germany on September 10th.

Photo gallery

More information on WBD II (German)

WHITE BAND DAY I - JULY 2005

Photo gallery from White Band day I – July 2005

More information on WBD I (German)

BACKGROUND

GEGEN ARMUT is a campaign run jointly by VENRO, artist Herbert Groenemeyer and friends who are specialists in the PR and media branch. They are calling on the German Government to become more involved in putting the Millennium Development Goals into practice. The campaign sees itself as part of the international campaign “Global Call to Action against Poverty“ (GCAP). Everywhere and at any time, the “White Band” acts as a symbol of this world-wide campaign.

is the Association of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the area of development. It comprises 116 German NGOs working as executing agencies of private or church development co-operation, emergency relief and educational, public relations and lobbying activities relating to development.