
Education
We support vulnerable or marginalized children or adolescents by giving them access to basic education (informal and alternative schooling), to primary, secondary and high school, and eventually to university.
Our motto is not to look away, but to take a very close look wherever we perceive social, socio-cultural or environmental discrimination. We want to make an active contribution to more justice and equality of opportunities for all people, no matter where they were born.
Our guideline is to help people to help themselves.
SONNE-International advocates a world where everybody has access to clean water, food, medical care, education and work. It is our goal to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged people by means of holistic, sustainable support programmes and to enable them to live their lives with dignity.
SONNE-International is an internationally operative Austrian development Organisation that was founded in 2002 by Chairman Mag. Erfried Malle and the Styrian physician Dr. Susanne Prügger. We champion education and training, as this is the basis for a life in dignity, and we contribute to a decrease in poverty, to food security and health care. The main beneficiaries of our projects are children and adolescents, women and underprivileged population groups in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Myanmar.
SONNE-International’s support programmes are designed to enable disadvantaged persons to live independently and with dignity. As a principle, we do not resort to one-time measures (except in extreme emergencies), but offer long-term, sustainable support.
By planning and executing all our projects in close cooperation with well-established, trustworthy local partners and by providing them with systematic professional training whenever necessary, we want to strengthen the local structures and to increase their sense of ownership.