Pallium - Forschung und Hilfe für soziale Projekte e.V.

About us

Since 2004, we have supported people in Africa with our non-profit organization Pallium
especially those who have emergency needs as a result of illness. The help focusses in particular on
orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia. The association was created in the context of many years of research on HIV / AIDS and the orphan crisis in Southern Africa at the Institute of Sociology of the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
Pallium supports independent African initiatives financially, practically and in an advisory capacity. The projects supported by Pallium are not development aid projects. Internal decisions (such as personal or medical decisions) are made by the African authorities.
The exchange with the African projects presents an opportunity to learn about Africa to the members and friends of Pallium, as well as to the excursion students and interns,. In addition to the organization of support, African-related topics and the (self-) critical consideration of our understanding of help are major concerns of Pallium's work.

Projects:
• The Havana soup kitchen, where 40 children eat from Monday to Friday, and where they are looked after and prepared for school. The project, launched in 2010 by the Namibian Frieda Kemuiko-Geises, is located in Havana, a very poor corrugated iron slum district of Katutura.
A family aid program is also part of the soup kitchen project, in which a number of needy households where the sick, the aged and orphaned children live, are supported with food.
• The Dolam Children's Home, where more than 20 children and adolescents live permanently. They are orphans and children who can not be cared for in their families due to extreme poverty and violence.
• The Okandjira Garden - local food production can provude security: In the spring of 2017, Pallium initiated the Okandjira Garden. It was developed on a piece of desert sand and now, a few months later, it feeds several families who also generate an increasing income from the garden by
selling part of the vegetable crop at local markets and at a nearby lodge.
• Projects and assistance in Northern Namibia: In Ondangwa, North Namibia, Rauna Shimbode's family support program was able to support the Oonte Christmas party for more than 400 orphans and vulnerable children. The Shimbode School in Epinga, in the North Namibian bush, was also supported by a donation.

Prof. Dr. Reimer Gronemeyer is the Chairman and Dr. Michaela Fink a board member of Pallium -
Research and Help for Social Projects.

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