Supporting young, talented people who are socially engaged is a great pleasure and enrichment for our club -
and in our opinion also
a good investment in the future.
Deutschlandstipendium 2024/2025
Since 2012, our club has regularly supported particularly talented and socially committed female students at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) with the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship. Teanwhile, there are eight young women from the subjects of ethnology, physics, theology, medicine, book sciences, law, psychology and dentistry.
The scholarship holders receive 300 euros per month through the Deutschlandstipendium, of which 150 euros come from the scholarship providers and 150 euros are paid by the German state.
LMU carries out the pre-selection in terms of eligibility and our selection criteria. It also organizes the official
award ceremonies, as well as networking opportunities for students among themselves and with the scholarship providers.
Our club sister Susanne maintains contact with the scholarship holders, who also have the opportunity to take part in our club evenings at any time and thus familiarise themselves with Soroptimist International's commitment to women.
HEROES Munich - Against repression in the name of honour
HEROES is an AWO Munich project for equal rights for men and women, in which young men from patriarchal cultures work against repression in the name of honour and for equal rights and equality for women and men.
The basic idea behind HEROES is that change must start with each individual, in families, schools and neighbourhoods.
In regular training sessions, young men deal with topics such as honour, identity, gender roles and human rights. In addition to being taught specialist knowledge, they are made more aware and empathetic, their mindsets are strengthened and they are also given plenty of space to share their personal experiences.
At the end of the training phase, they are certified as HEROES and can then offer workshops independently. As official HEROES, they visit school classes, training centres or youth facilities where they lead workshops for girls and boys
By encouraging young people to discuss concepts such as ‘honour’ (e.g. through role play), they are able to question these attitudes in society; alternative perspectives are developed and young people are encouraged to take a stand against oppression in the name of honour.
We Soroptimists support this project because we believe in a society in which everyone has the same rights - regardless of their gender.
Pictures from the bunker
Kharkiv in 2024, war has been raging in Ukraine for years. Children can no longer stay in their familiar homes or go out and play with other children. Instead, they are stuck in bunkers, underground stations and basements during the incessant bombing of the city. For them, this is now their home, their reality.
The painter Natalia Kulinitsch, who has been working with traumatised children in Carkiev for a long time, is now also taking care of these children, whose only home is underground. She founded the art group ‘Dream Flights’, in which children and young people learn to process their experiences with the help of art therapy.
She encourages the children to express their ideas and wishes in pictures. And the children paint: the underground stations, the ruins, the bunkers, the nightmares. But they also paint pictures of a better world, of life before the war that should not be forgotten - and they paint their dreams.
Natalia Kulinitsch's work is supported by SI Club Hildesheim through the sale of the children's pictures and postcards and through donations. This money will be used to buy the necessary materials (paints, pens, paper, etc.) and send them to Kharkiv.
We Soroptimists from the Munich-Schwabing Club support this important task with a donation. We want to help distract these children and give them courage for a better future.
Bundhu Project Faridpur, Bangladesh
A life outside the brothel for children of prostitutes and underage forced prostitutes
A few years ago, actor Michael Kranz filmed the documentary WAS TUN in Faridpur, Bangladesh. He saw the terrible conditions under which the women and their children have to live in the brothels.
He founded the Bundhu Project to give the underage forced prostitutes and especially the children of prostitutes a perspective outside the brothel.
Bundhu works together with the local, family-run aid organisation Shapla Mohila Shangstha. This organisation has initiated many projects to strengthen the rights and improve the living conditions of women and children in the brothel milieu. These include a girls' home for daughters of prostitutes who would otherwise grow up in a brothel. With the help of Bundhu, a small home for boys from the brothels has now also been opened. These children can now attend school for the first time in their lives.
The association also supports former forced prostitutes in building a life outside the brothel with the help of an education programme. Up to 30 girls rescued from forced prostitution received embroidery and sewing lessons and thus a perspective for a self-determined life. In addition, there is a lot of individual assistance to help forced prostitutes leave prostitution and reintegrate into society.
Kifafa e.V.
SI Club Munich -Schwabing supports the Kifafa AIDS orphanage in Kendu Bay , Kenya
For many years we have been supporting Kifafa e.V. with a sponsorship.
Kifafa e.V. was originally founded by a club sister to provide vital medical care for people with epilepsy in Kenya. Many people with epilepsy live there without any medication or other medical care. Left alone and stigmatised, they vegetate with their families in the slums of Nairobi and in rural areas.
It soon became apparent, however, that although the supply of medication was improving, the living conditions and, above all, the children's chances for a better future were not.
So the idea of sponsorship was born and in 1995 the society Kifafa e.V.. was founded.
Over the years, the work of the society changed. In addition to the individual care of the sponsored children and the support of the sick people with medication, the construction of an orphanage for epileptic girls and female AIDS orphans in Kendu Bay on Lake Victoria was started in 2004..
Additionally, to contribute against hunger in the Kendu Bay community, a food programme for hungry children was launched in May 2009.
Today, Kifafa e.V. continues to support seven epilepsy outpatient clinics in Kenya with deliveries of free anti-epileptic drugs. The main focus of the work, however, will be Kendu Bay, where 22 sick girls are currently cared for in the orphanage and 40 children are currently fed five days a week with the additional food programme for 50 cents per lunch.
Kendu Bay will remain the centre of work in the future. Kifafa, which now employs 9 people, is one of the major employers in the region and an economically important factor for Kendu Bay.
Club sisters who have visited Kendo Bay/Kifafa were convinced and enthusiastic about the work that is done there for the girls. Even if we only make a small contribution, it helps the girls to lead a more self-determined life.
SI Club München-Schwabing supports financially and ideally the goals of
medica mondiale
medica mondiale
We support medica mondiale financially because we are convinced that medica mondiale does meaningful and important work worldwide to help women in war and crisis areas. This is more important than ever in the current situation.
medica mondiale e.V. has been supporting women and girls in war and crisis zones who have experienced gender based violence during war for over 28 years. This non-profit organisation is currently working in 14 project countries in Africa, Asia and Europe and provides on-site help - medical, psychological, legal and economic. It also works politically to promote equality, justice and sustainable change in society.
Information on medica mondiale's work can be found on their website and on social media:
Webseite: www.medicamondiale.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/medicamondiale/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medicamondiale/?hl=de
Twitter: https://twitter.com/medicamondiale?lang=de
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/medicamondialeorg
LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/company/medica-mondiale
Donator’s link:
https://www.medicamondiale.org/spenden
Transforming farmland into natural habitats.
Field Flower sponsorships in the Munich countryside
Together with 365 other sponsors and the Starnberg District Nature Conservation Association, we have returned valuable habitat to nature over the past three years on a project area of 50,000 square metres: - Numerous plant species have been grown, some even endangered.
- The buzzing of insects like honey bees, bumblebees, butterflies, etc. has clearly stood out from their neighboring areas.
- Skylarks and quails have settled down to breed.
- Whole flocks of birds have gathered for communal feeding.
- One doe has given birth to and raised two fawns on the site in each year.
- ….and these are just a few examples - photos and videos can be found here: @bluehpatenschaft
We will continue to work to preserve natural habitats in our area for the 2022-2024 period.
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- Numerous plant species have been grown, some even endangered.
- The buzzing of insects like honey bees, bumblebees, butterflies, etc. has clearly stood out from their neighboring areas.
- Skylarks and quails have settled down to breed.
- Whole flocks of birds have gathered for communal feeding.
- One doe has given birth to and raised two fawns on the site in each year.
- ….and these are just a few examples - photos and videos can be found here: @bluehpatenschaft