FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES
National Network
Germany
Address
Moorweg 51Country
City
BerlinStreet address 2
Moorweg 51Telephone
00491726496221Website
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2019Contact Person1
Dr. Melanie KleinJob Title 1
Programme ManagerOrganisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit FoundationFields of Activity
Democracy and community developmentGeneral Information
The Mensch und Mensch Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Berlin. It was founded in 2019 by Dr. Christa Pandey and is dedicated to promoting human encounters in all areas of culture and the idea of international understanding.
Mission and Objectives
We are committed to facilitating encounters between people. Developing mutual understanding is always a challenge. When increasingly opposing camps emerge in a diverse and individualised society, living together becomes a trial. That is why we need places where people can meet with respect and listen to one another. Because difficult situations can only be overcome together - on both a small and large scale. Engaging with one another requires courage and openness. Especially when people experience different realities in life.
Main Projects / Activities
We want to support our project partners in developing and testing creative formats for encounters. We need suitable methods and tools to enable people to inspire and trust each other. We need appropriate approaches to reach people so that they can meet in the first place.
We support projects that strengthen mutual trust and joint action in our society. Together with our project partners, we highlight stories of a vibrant civil society and support young people in particular in actively shaping their future.
How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
We are a small and young foundation that would like to specialise in methods and formats of encounter in the future. Together with our project partners, we would like to become experts in formats that are effective and sustainable. There are many daily contacts and many perspectives in our societies. But we would like to ask ourselves how we can support people in not just shielding or consuming other perspectives, but taking them seriously and respecting them? Within a network that focuses on intercultural dialogue, we can contribute our experience. Every foundation and every NGO has successes, but also failures. We can learn from these instead of making the same mistakes if we know about them from each other.
Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
We are primarily interested in exchange. We would like to share experiences, evaluations and possible scientific findings in contact research. Projects are usually selective and short-term. We rarely know whether and how they have actually worked. We hope that this knowledge will be pooled in a network without being lost.