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World Day for the prevention of Child Abuse

19 November was World Day for the prevention of Child Abuse. Reading the statistics on child abuse is staggering – often shocking! It is not only figures such as 1 million children each year are forced into the sex trade, but it is also the abuse that surrounds us in our daily lives amongst people [...]
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Ashoka Fellow Till Behnke

  We at betterplace have known for a long time that Till is great – but now it’s official! Till has qualified as an Ashoka Fellow over the course of a nearly one-year, multi-phased selection process in Germany and internationally with approximately three hundred competitors. Congratulations Till! Ashoka gives the new Fellows financial support, advises [...]
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Stretching beyond your limits

The key to giving is to use what you are good at to give back to the world. Yoga You Palma is doing just that. This Sunday 16 November, Yoga You in Palma de Mallorca hosted the first of a weekly “community class” – and betterplace is at the heart of it. The class is [...]
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birthday parties with betterplace

I would like to present to you Noah, so far the youngest betterplace team organiser. Yesterday, Noah celebrated his 9th birthday. And instead of handing his friends yet another partybag, he decided to donate the money otherwise spent on sweets and cheap, not very exciting, presents, to a project on betterplace, a nursery school in Togo.  [...]
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betterplace Workshop in Mali

Youchaou’s school in Mali, Westafrika, is one of my favourites (well, I also have a few others, but this one is really good). And this, not only because my family and I visited the project last January and spent a great day and evening with Youchaou, Jürgen and the street children he supports with a [...]
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Meeting of the Advisory Board at betterplace

Last Thursday’s “regulars” at Café Bravo were witness to an unusual sight: in the lobby of the Berliner Kunstwerker – one of Berlins leading institutions for contemporary art –a small crowd (of men) were gathered, all with lap tops under their arm, speaking into their headsets over Skype or mobiles, taking their last instructions before [...]
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