Adventurer and tourist Jochen Meissner kicked off his 3000-kilometer challenge on August 25, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. In cooperation with SONNE-International, the adventurer rode across Asia to raise money for street children. The tour took him and his guide Michael through four countries. The first four days the two bikers cycled through Myanmar. After ten days, the Thai capital Bangkok was reached. Thereafter, they made several stops in Malaysia , e.g. in George Town on the island of Penang and in Kuala Lumpur. On September 21, Meissner and his friend arrived in Singapore.
Jochen Meissner is a longtime supporter of the Austrian NGO. With his action he raised 17,689 euros for SONNE-International. With this sum, fifty street children can be accommodated at the new Street Children Center in Yangon for one year. There the children will receive health care, two meals a day, school clothes, lessons and materials with the aim of integrating them into the public school system after one year. The new SONNE-Street Children Center was opened on October 9, 2019. At present we are looking for new education sponsors for 80 childcare places so that as many of Yangon’s disadvantaged Children as possible can escape the vicious cycle of educational deprivation and poverty!
Kindly supported by the NGO IMOD-USA, Roman Gabriel and Vasilios Karpos, both representants of CLIPSAS (accredited NGO at EcoSoc at the UN), organized an info booth at the 68th UN-Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City in order to present SONNE-International’s projects to the visitors and to drum up support for them. Videos of the projects were shown, which received a thoroughly positive feedback.
Favourable reactions to our work are always very pleasing, especially from experts. We are very glad about people like Roman and Vasilios who dedicate their valuable free time to promoting our social projects. Thank you for your commitment!
We support the nomadic Afar ethnicity, especially women and children, with basic medical care and mobile education.
In Bihar the children of the Dalit (the “untouchables”) benefit from school projects and self-defence courses for girls.
We operate educational and training projects for ethnic minorities in remote villages.
In our day care and training centres we look after vulnerable children and adolescents.
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Founded in: 2002
Legal status: non-profit organisation
Offices: Austria (Vienna), Bangladesh and Myanmar
Core areas: education, skills training, health
Project countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar
Employees in SONNE-International HQ Austria: 4
Find more Information in our current SONNE folder.
Volunteers: ~ 20
Full-time employees in the project countries: ~ 150
Co-operations with corporate enterprises: 20
Co-operations with foundations: 3
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SONNE-International in MYANMAR
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SONNE-International in BANGLADESH
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SONNE-International in ETHIOPIA
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SONNE-International in INDIA
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