Gesellschaft für solidarische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (GSE e.V.)

About us

The Society for Solidarity Development Cooperation is a non-governmental development organization. It was founded in February 1990 and is mainly active in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany as part of its domestic work.

Our goals
Our association is committed to ensuring that all people worldwide can lead a "good life". This includes educational opportunities and meaningful work as well as healthy nutrition and medical care. We want everyone to be able to develop their potential in a self-determined manner, resolve conflicts peacefully and take on responsibility in civil society. We are convinced that resources to achieve goals should be used sustainably and distributed fairly.

Our services
In order to achieve our goal of the "good life" worldwide, we carry out solidarity development cooperation abroad as well as education and awareness-raising work at home. We also organize youth encounter trips for cultural exchange.
For us, solidarity development cooperation means supporting people in the Global South* in a spirit of partnership in order to reduce poverty and social disadvantage and to develop forms of democratic self-help and self-determination.
We impart knowledge about the Global South in domestic educational work with schoolchildren and educational work with interested parties in the promoter program. In doing so, we draw the attention of students to the economic and political context of global injustice. We want to enable adolescents to critically reflect on their own lifestyle and perception of their own and foreign cultures. For more information about our educational offerings, see Global Learning.

What we do:
• Global learning: Global learning is the pedagogical response to the requirements of sustainable development in world society and the necessary expansion of pedagogical thinking and acting in the context of a globalizing society. We see it as support for teachers in the implementation of the curriculum and framework plans by offering project days on global issues. Pupils are supported by our speakers in acquiring knowledge about countries in the Global South, reflecting on this and considering it in the context of their own environment, evaluating it and developing possible options for action.
• BREBIT – Brandenburg Development Education and Information Days
• Paul and Paulina travel around the world – a booklet with the story of the two water drops Paul and Paulina. Several short chapters lead to different world regions on four continents. In it, the children learn facts about the water situation in the countries they visit and about specific problems that can arise from water shortages or excess water.
• Fair trade: With our project days in schools and action days in the FEZ Berlin on fair trade, we want to make a contribution to global justice. In our workshops, elementary school students explore the question under which working conditions and at what price people in the Global South manufacture products for our consumption in an age-appropriate manner. Together with Global Learning speakers, various foods and plants can be explored, such as cocoa, bananas, cotton, peanuts, vanilla and quinoa.
• Projects abroad: For us, solidarity development cooperation means supporting people in the South in their efforts to reduce poverty, need and social disadvantage and to develop forms of democratic self-help and self-determination. We support projects aimed at satisfying the basic needs for clean water, health maintenance, education and income-generating measures.
• International encounter trips: We have established close personal connections to the southern partners through numerous projects abroad. Our association also uses this network to enable young people to meet up on international trips.
• Campaigns: The Society for Solidarity Development Cooperation supports campaigns that demand international solidarity, fair production conditions, compliance with workers' rights and sustainable consumption.

On request, we can provide advice for other network participants, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date specialist information and contacts in the field of our work.