Activities Field partner Support partner Type NGO Website http://www.arche-nova.org/

Location Schützengasse 18 01067 Dresden Saxony Germany

Contact Antje Huschenbett Email antje.huschenbett@arche-nova.org Phone +49-351 49 43 590 Fax +49 351 49 43 599

Ever since the first transport of relief supplies to Iraqi Kurdistan in 1992, arche noVa has been committed to assisting people suffering from humanitarian crises – regardless of their ethnic origin, religion, or philosophy of life. As a registered non-governmental and non-profit relief organization, our priority is to help develop people’s capacities to strengthen their autonomy and to enable them to live without external assistance. In accordance with this goal, arche noVa has consistently concentrated on facilitating the basic conditions for an autonomous improvement of living-conditions: the implementation of stable water supply systems, the chance to gain self-sufficiency by vocational training, and the provision of micro-credit programs. We provide help in the form of self-help. We do not want beneficiaries to enter into a state of dependency; instead we offer a partnership enabling them to help themselves.

arche nova provides immediate emergency relief and implements sustainable development cooperative projects that are strictly geared to local conditions and to the protection of human dignity. arche noVa is associated neither with any religious denomination nor with any political party and is strictly opposed to intolerance, racism, and military conflict solutions. Instead, we are championing the inequitable allocation of minimum living conditions and development chances in our world. Our work is financed primarily through private donations, project funds, and international donor organizations.

Our commitment is driven by the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, and partnership.

arche noVa is internationally acknowledged as implementing partner of UNICEF, the International Organisation of Migration IOM, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other international organisations working in the field of water and sanitation. Furthermore, arche noVa is a member in different local and international networks, like the organization Paritaetischer Wohlfahrtsverband (www.paritaet.org) and the alliance of German aid organizations "Aktion Deutschland hilft" ( www.adh102030.de).

To guarantee for a maximum degree of transparency arche noVa is voluntarily undergoing the annual audit of the DZI (German Institute for Social Matters). Since 1995 arche noVa has permanently been awarded the Institute´s donation seal for exemplary transparency and efficiency in the application of donations. www.dzi.de

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