Concept People help People - One World shows Vision, Mission, Objectives and Principles

1. Our Mission:
We support people in developing countries to achieve
their sustainable development objectives by offering
them a partnership and helping them to obtain
necessary resources that would otherwise be
unavailable.
Our goal:
We help to create the basis for the future and present,
so that people in developing countries can exploit
opportunities for development within the current
political environment. The project work is primarily
designed to serve basic needs for food, clean water,
Our Vision: shelter, education and health care in developing
countries. In particularly, we want to help women,
We encourage personal initiative to improve the youth and children to help themselves. Beyond our
quality of life and solidarity with people in developing project work, we want to serve public to create a better
countries in a sustainable way, not only as a project intercultural understanding: thus both parties will
supporter and donor organization, but also by better understand their circumstances, their thoughts
strengthening the scientific, intellectual, cultural and and feelings, their social background. This way, the
social relations between Germany and developing collaboration will be based upon acceptance and
countries. respect.

2. Who: How:
For the success of our projects, it is essential to build • We believe that local stakeholders will know best
on an existing network and a trusted and competent what is needed
local partner organization. Due to our long-term • We support and strengthen personal initiative to
project work in Tanzania this is ensured. The goal for ensure that project results will meet the local
the future is to build reliable contacts in Asia and needs
South America too. • We support sustainable projects that are led by
existing, sound and robust functional
What: organizations
• We expect that our local partners will support the
Our development work is based on three pillars: project work personally, either via money,
property or labor investment
Education • The projects are clearly defined and transparent,
thus sponsors and supporters are actively willing
Technical support (e.g. water supply) to assist
• We guarantee highest efficiency of all our
Women's and Family Health investments via direct support and control
• Finally, we will ask competent third parties to
Furthermore, we consider a fourth pillar of
regularly assess our work.
competence: improvement of food availability through
cooperative structures or holistic biodynamic farming.

3. Background and History business trips were scheduled. A network was
created with various organizations and
1985 Ruth Hofbauer contacted all political individuals, among them representatives of the
parties of the City Council of Idstein. In this City Council, churches and political parties, as
letter, she urged the Council members to build a well as with doctors, teachers and social
formal association with a city in a developing workers. These visits resulted in a first project: a
country. This application was rejected due to water pipeline in Chekereni Weruweru, a village
the big cultural and social differences. nearby Moshi. The latest board election in 2009
was the starting point of a re-launch of the
In October 1985, Ruth Hofbauer and some organization. Part of this is the new company
community activists decided to found name "People help people - One World”
“Bürgerpartnerschaft Dritte Welt Idstein e.V.” to
create a formal organization to connect Idstein Moshi (Tanzania)
with a city in a developing country. Ruth
Hofbauer was the chairman of the first Executive Moshi is located in the Kilimanjaro Region in
Committee, Katharina Fehlau the vice chairman northeast of Tanzania, close to Mount
and Werner Schuster the secretary. He was one Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. The
of the most trusted politicians that time. Schuster city has 120,000 inhabitants and covers an area
and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal of 77 square kilometers. The main source of
Development Minister at a later time, were close income is trade, small business enterprises and
companions. Rolf Ascheberg assumed the agriculture. The main problems of the
position of the treasurer, Eva Steinmetz, William community are water supply, youth
Wahl and Fritz Sieber completed the Executive unemployment and lack of sufficient resources
Committee. Due to the fact that Werner to support the general education system.
Schuster was born in Tanzania, Moshi with
many good connections in place, the
organization decided to focus all their work on
that area. In December 1985 and July 1986 first

4. The Executive Committee Treasurer:
Chairman: Hartmut Ring
Bernhard Wingerberg Born 1949 in Diez an der Lahn. Married to
Andrea Ring, 2 children.
Born 1963 in Munich. Married to Renate
Wingerberg, 3 children. International business activities in the last
22 years, including project work in
WICK Pharma Sales Director Germany, collaboration with the KfW (Kreditanstalt
Austria, Switzerland fuer Wiederaufbau) and World Bank, TRC
(Tanzania Railways Corporation) and
Main tasks: general management, TAZARA (-Zambia Railway).
networks in Germany, public relations
and fundraising work Responsible for finance and networks in
Tanzania.
Vice-chairman:
Hans-Jürgen Sommer
Secretary:
Born in 1949, City Wiesbaden, married.
Five children, Headmaster of the
vocational school Untertaunus; Renate Wingerberg,
implementation of various school
projects in Tanzania, member since Born 1962 in Haffkrug, nursery nurse,
2001, visited Tanzania twice. Reiki Master and artist
Among other tasks, responsible for Responsible for administrational work,
student projects and internships documentation and representation, event
management

5. Imprint
Assessor: People help People – One World
PO Box 1124
65501 Idstein
Holger Meixner Germany
Telphone: +49 (6126) 202 313
Born in Fulda in 1956. Three daughters. E-mail: b1welt@aol.com
IT consultant Homepage: www.bdw-idstein.de (under construction)
Member since 1994. 2001 trip to
Tanzania in connection with project work.
We appreciate all donations for the current and planned projects:
Nassauische Sparkasse Idstein VR Bank Untertaunus e.G.
Konto 352 02 97 77 Konto 444 07
BLZ 510 500 15 BLZ 510 917 00
All donations are fully tax deductible. We thank everyone who supports
our work!