ASSOCIATION
NETZWERK OST-WEST e.V.
The Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. (Network East - West) is a charitable association for the promotion of international understanding and peace with the main emphasis on intercultural and inter-religious understanding of women from East and West. The initiative for this association started in London in 1997. The association is recorded in the register of associations (VR1060) in Königstein/Taunus and is recognised as being charitable.
Aim
Aim of Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. is the building of an effective network for women from East and West within the context of the European integration and the enlargement of the EU to the East by means of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. Learning processes shall be started up so that women can initiate projects in their home countries and implement these more sustainable and more efficiently.
Main emphases of Netzwerk Ost - West e.V.:
Women
The promotion of women in their use of professional and human competences for social and humanitarian aims in their home countries.
According to the United Nations the status of women is one of the most important indicators for the development and democracy of a country. Freedom and progress of each woman begins in herself. We want to help build structures which enable women to use their potential and experiences that have grown out of their multiple roles and experiences in family, profession and society, more effectively and efficiently.
Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. has set its goal to awaken the powers of women in workshops and seminars, to build up self-confidence, competence of leadership, to train management ability and violence free coping with conflicts as well as to pass on practical techniques for the implementation of concrete projects. Furthermore, women are being encouraged to strive for independence co-operatively out of their own experiences, and to contribute to common aims out of this independence with self-confidence.
Peace: Intercultural and inter-religious dialogue
Intercultural and inter-religious understanding by means of a continuous and institutionalised East-West dialogue of representatives of various religions from more than 25 countries.
As if to say "Our difference is our wealth" the lively diversity of cultural and religious traditions are shown as restricting ethnical, national and religious stereotypes and prejudices, and converted into acceptance and understanding. In the esteem of your own personal, cultural and religious roots lies the strength that makes it possible to open doors for the Other, the Different, and hence to lead to tolerance, acceptance and violence free living together.
The positively valued difference shall become the driving force for common social and humanitarian aims.
Health
Promotion of physical and mental health of women through practical workshops and seminars
According to the definition of the World's Health Organisation (WHO) health comprises physical, mental and social well-being. Women's health, pre- and perinatal health provisions in poor countries, overcoming of traumata as a result of wars and other forms of violence as well as preventative measures for keeping body and soul in a state of health (e.g. stress management) are among the topics. Scientific depictions of preventative measures for the promotion of health are combined with the conveying of practical methods.
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The Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. (Network East - West) is a charitable association for the promotion of international understanding and peace with the main emphasis on intercultural and inter-religious understanding of women from East and West. The initiative for this association started in London in 1997. The association is recorded in the register of associations (VR1060) in Königstein/Taunus and is recognised as being charitable.
Aim
Aim of Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. is the building of an effective network for women from East and West within the context of the European integration and the enlargement of the EU to the East by means of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. Learning processes shall be started up so that women can initiate projects in their home countries and implement these more sustainable and more efficiently.
Main emphases of Netzwerk Ost - West e.V.:
Women
The promotion of women in their use of professional and human competences for social and humanitarian aims in their home countries.
According to the United Nations the status of women is one of the most important indicators for the development and democracy of a country. Freedom and progress of each woman begins in herself. We want to help build structures which enable women to use their potential and experiences that have grown out of their multiple roles and experiences in family, profession and society, more effectively and efficiently.
Netzwerk Ost - West e.V. has set its goal to awaken the powers of women in workshops and seminars, to build up self-confidence, competence of leadership, to train management ability and violence free coping with conflicts as well as to pass on practical techniques for the implementation of concrete projects. Furthermore, women are being encouraged to strive for independence co-operatively out of their own experiences, and to contribute to common aims out of this independence with self-confidence.
Peace: Intercultural and inter-religious dialogue
Intercultural and inter-religious understanding by means of a continuous and institutionalised East-West dialogue of representatives of various religions from more than 25 countries.
As if to say "Our difference is our wealth" the lively diversity of cultural and religious traditions are shown as restricting ethnical, national and religious stereotypes and prejudices, and converted into acceptance and understanding. In the esteem of your own personal, cultural and religious roots lies the strength that makes it possible to open doors for the Other, the Different, and hence to lead to tolerance, acceptance and violence free living together.
The positively valued difference shall become the driving force for common social and humanitarian aims.
Health
Promotion of physical and mental health of women through practical workshops and seminars
According to the definition of the World's Health Organisation (WHO) health comprises physical, mental and social well-being. Women's health, pre- and perinatal health provisions in poor countries, overcoming of traumata as a result of wars and other forms of violence as well as preventative measures for keeping body and soul in a state of health (e.g. stress management) are among the topics. Scientific depictions of preventative measures for the promotion of health are combined with the conveying of practical methods.
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