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Yes, admin work required!

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It is saturday morning. Early morning. The clouds are still hanging silently over the roofs of my neighbor houses. The streets down my apartment submerged already with the general summer vacation spirit. Almost no noise at all comes up to my open window.  As I woke up, I thought to use my morning energy to go over some Stella documents and to bring them up-to-date. Laura Much, sitting in Berlin, is supporting me. Adjusting the Stella Layout really requires time and patience as well as an exchange with the German tax authorities. Before I founded Stella in 2009, I had no clue what requirements one need to fulfill when being responsible for an „eingetragener Verein“. Wow, I still said to myself. I am an accredited lawyer but still, even I am struggling from time to time with the legal requirements. How can someone not being specially trained handle the bureaucracy, I sometimes asked myself. But, hey, sometimes it is good to start something without knowing all consequences before, right? Out of the right motivation. Mine was to make a change. And to just start. Without evaluating all pros and cons. And, as you can see, this is were we are standing with our non-profit initiative. You can be the change. Just go for it. The rest will come. Happy saturday, dear friends. With love, Corinna-Rosa

New beamer for the refugee school in Munich!

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Dear friends, just recently, I received this little card which I want to share with you. Thanks to your financial support, we could provide the refugee school with two new beamers. And we all know, due to our own experiences, how useful it can be to have visual elements beamed to the wall. You might remember one of your last business meetings, university class or your own home cinema. Visualization is an important mean to train the brain, to learn. The beamers here will be used during school class for the young refugees. School teaching is so much easier and more efficient. So, I feel very happy that we were able to make such a nice gift! With love, Corinna-Rosa

Our summer newsletter 2017!

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Dear friends,

I am happily sending you some summer kisses from Munich. Yeeees – Stella is ongoing and in its 9th year of operation. I cannot believe how fast time is moving and I am so proud of what we have already achieved during the last years! Just take those examples: some days ago, we could provide our Munich refugee center for young refugees with urgently required school material. And, as a little cherry on the top of the cake – I am working to be able to offer swim lessons to young muslim women living in Munich! I do so hope we can get sufficient financial support to realize this project! Of course, our projects in India (the mountain region and Delhi) are still as well in the focus. Feel invited to check out www.stella-bildung-bewegt.org where I post regularly our activities. We are all working on a non-profit base so the Stella work needs to be done during the weekend or late at night as now. But hey, a little extra has never done harm to anyone. In particular not if the cause is to empower others through education, right?

Ah, and not to forget: on September 23rd, we are participating at the half-marathon in Munich as the “Stella Charity Run Team” to raise further funds for our projects. Correct – the same day as the Octoberfest opens. What could be a better start for the 5th season of the year? I would really be happy if some of you would like to join. I. myself, will be happy to somehow make it to the end and do less care about the timing…surely there are more ambitious runners in our team. So, each of you – independently from your fitness level – can join for this Charity run. Mail me for more info!

Have a wonderful night and never forget to listen to butterflies when they laugh!
Yours
Corinna-Rosa Hacker

 

New fundraising ideas in the mountains !

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Today, I was brainstorming with Judith how to proceed with our Stella Stella project. We have chosen to walk up the Bavarian Laber mountain. And ideas about the next Stella fundraising idea came so much easier out of our brain cells. It is so enriching to change environment when thinking, ideally when being combined with an activity. No office meeting would have had the same impact in such a funny and fruitful way. What idea we had? More to follow soon 🙂 enjoy your weekend ❤️ with love, Corinna

Sommerfest mit mehr als 500 Minis mit Migrationshintergrund – Danke Euch!

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Ihr Lieben – am vergangenen Freitag hat das Sommerfest unseres Kooperationspartners Hilfe von Mensch zu Mensch e.V. unter dem Motto „Begegnung der Kulturen“ stattgefunden. So viel schöne Energie 🙂 ! Musik, Tanz und Spiel. Und so ganz ohne Berührungsängste. Dafür mit einem vollen Büffet und Speisen aus über 50 Nationen. Eine kulinarische Entdeckungsreise von Bayern bis Persien. Wir konnten mit Stella hier über 500 fliegende Tombola Luftballons für die Kinder beisteuern und haben auch noch für den Nachtisch sorgen können. Tausend Dank an alle Unterstützer – with Love, Corinna

Oh oh…auch Saudi Arabien kann besser sein!

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Saudi Arabien – das “Land der unsichtbaren Frauen” – wie schön wäre es, wenn sich Saudi Arabien bald zum Land der sichtbaren Frauen entwickelt! Die Frauen dort tragen eine unglaubliche Schönheit in sich. Niemand hat sich hinter einer Ladung Kleidung zu verstecken, wenn er nicht möchte! Also her damit – wir wollen diese Frauen sehen und bewundern!

Love & Hugs, Corinna

“Saudi-Arabien – Frau im Minirock festgenommen: Polizisten in Saudi-Arabien haben eine junge Frau festgenommen. Ihr Vergehen: Sie hatte ein Video gepostet, in dem sie mit Minirock und Top bekleidet durch eine Gasse lief.” Mehr zum Artikel aus dem heutigen Spiegel Online hier.

Different life scenarios but still one world.

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Yesterday, I was reading the newspaper DIE ZEIT. About the hunger crisis in South Sudan. The weakest are those who die the first: the old people, the little ones, the sick. There was the story of a young boy who is daily leaving his hut before sunrise, trying to catch fishes to feed all members of his family at noon. His father is too sick to do the job. The boy himself is undernourished. Today, he could only catch one fish. One fish for the family. Not sufficient.

The same day, at night, I was celebrating the French 14th of July in a little French bar. Different society. No war. No hunger. Sufficient means in available distance, from everything too much. In Western society, people are actually eating so much – too much – that there is the perplexity that, worldwide seen, there are more people suffering from overweight and their consequences than from hunger. To top this statement: we actually do have enough to nourish everyone living with us on earth. Humanity was threatened for the majority of their lifetime by hunger. Today, we successfully managed to overcome this issue.

We all know, the world is not based on fairness. I still do not know what exactly brought me here, growing up in the Western world with all its possibilities and what brought a little boy to be born into one of the poorest and worst managed countries. Driving this question to a peak, would most probably only lead to frustration. But I do know that there is responsibility that comes along. We cannot only take and take and take and make capitalism and the value of money being our only targets. We also have to give to those who are excluded from the machinery of wealth. To not starve hunger should be a basic right for everyone in the current world. We could realize it easily.

I have founded Stella years and years ago. I am leading Stella next to the job I am earning my money to pay my rent with. When looking back, I am so proud. It is amazing what such a little NGO could achieve in the last years…from the mountain school support in the Himalaya to the e.g. school books for the street kids in Delhi or the latest idea to provide young Muslim refugee women with swim training units in Munich. So, I would like to use this Saturday morning to thank you, dear Stella stars for your ongoing and never ending financial support to make this all come real. Enjoy this lovely day – Yours, Corinna

How about a donation to enable female refugees to participate at swim lessons?

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Germany has shown that humanity can prevail fear by admitting refugees to enter our country. This was a major sign to the contemporary world and it made me, as a German girl, being proud of being a German. And no, not everything works out fine since then, neither did it before – e.g. some laws finally need to be stronger implemented. But that is also life: The world is never static. And better now than never. But please stop complaining, rather act and work in making the situation becoming a better one. We now have guests in our country, some of them permanently, so it is the best starting to integrate them. The sooner the better. Each of us can do so. Talk to the refugees – they are out there, in our streets next corner, invite them for a cup of coffee and just ask how they are doing. Make a little difference. With Stella and in close cooperation with our partner Startklar e.V., we would like to provide 20 young refugee women with the possibility to take swim lessons in the Müller’sches Volksbad. Why? Because women and kids are the most vulnerable one. Because they never swam in their life as no one was there to teach this skill to them. Because they love being in the water and when they enjoy what they are doing, they feel happy and smile. If you want to participate: Please donate 30 Euro for one unit of swim training for one refugee woman. Please state “Swim course” and transfer your money to IBAN: DE21701500001000591360 | BIC: SSKMDEMM // Stella Bildung Bewegt e.V. Contribution receipts possible. Thanks to you and your constant support, dear Stella supporters!!

A new beamer for our educational refugee center in Munich

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Dear Stella Supporters!

Once again, I am very happy that we could support one of our cooperation partners in Munich. Thanks to you and your generous financial contribution, we were able to provide the refugee center in Munich with an urgently required beamer (I just transferred the money, photos to follow). The refugee center is focusing on helping non-accompanied young refugees and is providing them with private educational courses to pass the State exams. Continue reading →

Why did I choose to found Stella Enabling Education?

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I keenly packed my backpack during the university breaks and buzzed of to foreign places: Low budget and with the chance to connect with the locals. Of course, I have been exposed to social challenges during my travel trips and asked myself: What determines whether I see the light of life in the mountain villages of the Himalayas, in a mud hut in southern Ethiopia or in economically developed Germany, where I have more chances in life to become who I would like to become – is it by chance? Why are women composing the highest number of people in the world who are suppressed since thousands of years? Why do they largely not recognizing their conditioning (as being – wrongly – viewed as “inferior to men”) and even transfer this wrong thinking to their daughters? Why do little girls often not get the same opportunities from their parents in life as their brothers?

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About the importance of Gender Equality

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I just watched Emma Watson’s speech about gender equality again. Since 2014 it has not lost its relevance. She is so right in what she is saying: how many men are imprisoned in gender stereotypes? Gender equality also means that men neither need to be aggressive nor in need to control anymore to be accepted. What is more beautiful than a man who dares to show us his vulnerable side?

Little greetings from the pupils from our Leh mountain school !

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Dear Stella supporters, enjoy the pictures coming far from our boarding school in the Himalaya mountains documenting their day-life. For sure, the standard is different that one would apply for a European school. But do not forget the local conditions in the remote mountain area with no schools close by, no opportunity to learn to write and to count. The children are living in the mountain school and enjoying the vacation time with their family. Bringing back to their villages what they learned in the school. “If you educate one child, you educate a whole village” – how true this sentence is. Continue reading →

Thanks to all Stella Christmas supporters!

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Wir hatten die Leiter der Bergschule in Leh, Nordinien, im November 2016 nach ihrem aktuell dringendsten Bedarf befragt. Die Antwort war simple: Waschmaschinen für die mehr als 250 Schüler, die in der Bergschule nicht nur unterrichtet werden sondern die dort auch wohnen. Die jeweiligen Heimatdörfer liegen teilweise mehr als einen Tagesmarsch von der Schule in Leh entfernt. Continue reading →

New school books for our scholars in Leh – many thankyous for you !

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img_1097Today, I received the pictures from the arrival of the computer school books we bought for the Himalaya school in India. Without doubt, computer science is major – regardless where you are, here in Munich and there in the far away Indian mountains. Therefore, I am very proud that we could provide our students of the 9th and 10th grade with the desired books. Continue reading →

Auf Bildungswegen im Kinderhort Blumenau

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4morgenkreis1Der Münchner Kinderhort in der Blumenauerstraße wird wieder von Stella Bildung Bewegt e.V. unterstützt. Damit bekennt sich der gemeinnützige Verein zu lokalem Engagement und führt die erfolgreiche Aktion der Vorjahre fort.

Vor einiger Zeit haben wir bereits begonnen, das interkulturelle Projekt, das von den Verantwortlichen des Kinderhorts eigeninitiativ aufgebaut wurde, zu fördern. Es geht dabei darum, sich für ein stärkeres Verständnis verschiedener Kulturen und somit auch Religionen einzusetzen. In dem bayerischen Kinderhort liegt der Immigrantenanteil bei weit über 50%. Die Kleinen kommen aus fernen Ländern wie Irak, dem weiter kriegsgebeutelten Syrien, Russland oder der Türkei.   Continue reading →

Our latest images from Leh/ India

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img-20160817-wa0021Dear Stella supports – here some photos from our school in Leh, India. More than 200 pupils who are coming from different corners from the high region of the Himalaya are attending school there. Our next project with Leh is the realization of washing machines for the scholars. Yes, you were reading correctly…washing machines: all the cloths for the around 250 scholars are currently washed by hand. More info on how you can contribute to follow ! For now enjoy the pics !!

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Child marriages in Germany could soon be history (Handelsblatt morning briefing)

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Child marriages in Germany could soon be history. The government is planning a law that will require brides and grooms to be at least 18 years old. Nearly 1,500 forced marriages of underage girls, half of them from Syria, are currently registered in Germany. Finally, a basic tenet of modern humanity will become law: The freedom of religion will end where human dignity begins.

Taschenrechner, Zirkel und mehr für unsere Münchner Flüchtlinge!

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A1_Klasse“Wir freuen uns sehr über die gespendeten Formelsammlungen und Wörterbücher sowie die unterschiedlichen Büro- und Unterrichtsmaterialien, die bereits fleißig im Einsatz sind und von unseren SchülerInnen dankbar angenommen werden. Im K.O.M.M.-mit! -Projekt wurden dieses Schuljahr 2015/2016 rund 110 unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge analog zum deutschen Regelschulsystem unterrichtet und auf den Hauptschulabschluss und den Qualifizierenden Mittelschulabschluss vorbereitet. Continue reading →

Wie wir Opfer unserer eigenen vorgefertigten Bilder in unserem Kopf werden

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Kleider machen Leute, das war früher so und daran hat sich bis heute nichts geändert. Dass dieser Satz über die Wichtigkeit des äußeren Eindrucks auch für Kinder gilt, führt uns Unicef in einem erschreckend eindeutigen Video vor Augen. Denn darin entscheidet allein die Optik, ob wir uns um ein kleines Mädchen kümmern, das ohne Begleitung durch einen Erwachsenen auf dem Bürgersteig steht. Continue reading →

Bis 2030: Unicef fürchtet Tod von 69 Millionen Kindern unter fünf Jahren

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epa05371428 Filipino children are seen playing at a shantytown in Paranaque city, south of Manila, Philippines, 17 June 2016. According to the World Bank'd latest study, higher investments in skills and education, and flexible labor rules can help reduce poverty among workers in the Philippines. The report said that in the last decade, the Philippine economy has been growing at an average of 5.3 percent, while the working population and jobs have been growing at an average of 1.8 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. Labor productivity has also been growing at 3.4 percent a year. However, the growth of real wages or wages adjusted for changes in prices of goods and services has yet to catch up with the rising productivity. As a result, many workers remain poor. EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++Unicef hat stärkere Anstrengungen gefordert, den ärmsten Kindern auf der Welt besser zu helfen – besonders südlich der Sahara und in Südasien. Andernfalls drohten in den nächsten 15 Jahre dramatische Folgen.

69 Millionen Kinder unter fünf Jahren könnten nach Schätzungen des Kinderhilfswerks der Vereinten Nationen (Unicef) bis zum Jahr 2030 an weitgehend vermeidbaren Ursachen sterben. 167 Millionen Kinder drohe bis dahin zudem ein Leben in Armut und 750 Millionen Mädchen eine Zwangsheirat, warnt Unicef in seinem Jahresbericht. Continue reading →

Keys of Hope (Caritas International)

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Am 15. März 2016 jährt sich zum fünften Mal der Beginn des syrischen Bürgerkriegs. Derzeit leben rund acht Millionen Syrerinnen und Syrer als Binnenvertriebene auf der Flucht in ihrer Heimat, etwa 4,6 Millionen sind in die syrischen Nachbarländer Jordanien, Libanon, Irak sowie die Türkei geflohen. Rund 700.000 Syrerinnen und Syrer halten sich in der Europäischen Union auf.

Diese Menschen lassen alles hinter sich – ihre Familie, ihre Freunde, ihr Zuhause. Mit ihnen reisen Angst und Unsicherheit, aber auch Träume und Hoffnungen. Hoffnung, vielleicht eines Tages wieder nach Syrien zurückkehren zu können. Continue reading →