Social Commitment
The core emphasis of social commitment at AMPEG is directed towards supporting socially disadvantaged children. Projects countering child abuse and child labour as well as measures and initiatives for improving the upbringing of children, school education and professional and vocational training are included among this.
AMPEG is committed in two ways to social aid projects and organisations:
a) through donations and
b) by providing IT services free of charge.
The staff at AMPEG participates actively in the process of distributing the donations. Each year, the team makes a new decision on which aid projects are to be supported and with how much money.
In the following sections you can find out more about the social aid projects and organisations, which AMPEG currently supports:
- Aid for Maiti Nepal
- Harz-Weser Workshops
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According to estimates, approximately 10.000 to 12.000 mostly underage girls and young women are torn away their families under a variety of circumstances and forced into prostitution in city bordellos.
Aid for Maiti Nepal is a social non-government organisation (NGO) with headquarters in Kathmandu, which has been addressing this taboo subject since 1993 and had taken up the fight against trafficking, abduction and child prostitution. Its founder Anuradha Koirala became aware of the problem of abduction and child prostitution through her job as a teacher.
The organisation helps desperate children and young women to free themselves from the vicious circle of violence and abuse and attempts to fight the causes at the roots by taking targeted measures and staging programmes for action. The set-up of information- and educational centres and educational campaigns has helped to spread the word concerning abduction and child prostitution, the false promises of people traffickers and organised crime throughout Nepal.
AMPEG has been providing financial support for Aid for Maiti Nepal since 2001. The brisance of the taboo topic of child and youth prostitution and the remarkable work of the motivated German representatives of Maiti Nepal led to this long-term commitment to the aid organisation.
You can find out more about the work of Maiti Nepal on Bono Website under http://www.bono-direkthilfe.org
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The Harz-Weser Workshops offers people with mental and physical disabilities living in the area between Harz and Weser the chance of occupational and social rehabilitation. The organisation finances workshops, homes and special institutions for disabled adults with well over 1,000 places.
The Harz-Weser Workshops have set-up a computer network with some 16 servers and 200 PC's for users at 21 locations for supervising around 1,250 adult disabled people in their workshops and homes. At the beginning of the year, the vendors TREND MICRO, SonicWALL and Websense support in common with AMPEG the disabled persons' aid institution with a comprehensive security concept specially tailored to the needs of the Harz-Weser Workshops.
You can find out more about the work of the Harz-Weser Workshops on the charitable Ltd’s web-site under http://www.h-w-w.de (in German only).