What we do

School

A regular contribution for the Ausbildungshilfe/ Christian Education Fund (AH/CEF)facilitates young people to undergo an education at a secondary school, a university , a vocational training or a skills training.
AH/CEF supports young people in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenia, Tansania, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swasiland, Brasil, Indonesia and India.
Many of the scholarship holders come from rural areas. They are gifted and live in needy circumstances. That is why in most cases they must live in boarding schools to attend further education.
E.g. Cameroon: About 160 students benefit from scholarships that allow them to attend a secondary school of the Presbyterian Church PCC.
About 18 million people live in Cameroon, half of them Christian. Our partner church PCC has 1 million members who mainly live in the English-speaking western provinces. These people often feel disadvantaged, compared to the francophone majority of the country.

University

On the average the fees for universities amount to 30€ a month.
For example Indonesia: In the predominantly muslim state of Indonesia (88%) with its 240 million inhabitants we support the members of the Gemeinschaft christlicher Kirchen in Indonesia (PGI).
Many of them aim to acquire university degrees.
Our beneficiaries are thus enabled to contribute to the economic and social development of their country.

Vocational Training

Young people in South Africa to a great extent are unemployed. Many leave the rural areas to find their fortune in the big cities, where they are endangered by crime, drugs and HIV.
At the same time qualified personell in all kinds of craftsmanship is urgently needed.
This is why a close cooperation between St. Paul´s Training Centre in Taung, a carpentry workshop, and a vocational school in Bad Arolsen near Kassel has been established and is successfully working.
Eight to ten young men are being supported by the AH/CEF.

Skills Training

The Vimochana Project in the Indian area of Athani proves that sometimes only a small amount of money is needed to change people´s lives. Especially children of the “Devadasis” (Temple prostitutes) are trained to practice certain skills that may help them sustain their living: A dairy project teaches them feeding and milking cows and process milk. Others are being trained to repair electrical instruments or how to use the computer.