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About us
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The Indian Forum
 Initiated
by former students of the Berlin-based Mahatma Gandhi
High School, the Indian Forum is engaged in development
and cooperation projects in India for many years now. As
a registered non-profit organization, we maintain close
relations with other NGOs.
Working with children and youths is the focus of our
work, and we want to help achieve young people from both
countries a better understanding of each other's culture
in a joint dialogue.
In the form of school partnerships as well as with
projects concerning computers, the environment, and
solar power, we concentrate especially on the issue of
education in India. We have made it our goal, to give
socially disadvantaged children in India the chance for
education or further education in a school.
These goals also reflect in our
articles of
association.
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Our Approach
 Our
activities in India focus on the state of Jharkhand.
Despite its abundance of natural resources, it is one of
the poorest regions in India, and it is inhabited
primarily by India's aboriginal inhabitants, the Adivasi.
For many years we support school partnerships to
Chaibasa, a small town in the South of Jharkhand. Hereby
we encourage young people from India and Germany to take
part in a students exchange, in order to get to know a
foreign culture and to contribute to the success of an
international partnership. This way, for example, we
were able to equip a girls school in Chaibasa with desks
and benches in a collaboration with the students from
the Tagore School in Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
In addition, since 2013 we offer the possibility to
support our work on site in India within the framework
of the 'weltwärts' volunteer program.
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Executive Board
Roman Bansen
Roman has travelled the Indian subcontinent several times,
and he's the chairman of the executive board since 2014. He
also takes care of the Forum's website as well as other
affairs of our association.
E-Mail: roman.bansen indisches-forum.de |
Björn Kümmel
In spring 2005
Björn travelled to India for the first time and has been
passionate about the exchange between Indian and German
culture ever since. In the Indian Forum, he holds the
position as the vice chairman.
E-Mail: bjoern.kuemmelindisches-forum.de |
Jutta Nitschke
As the treasurer of the Indian Forum, Jutta
watches over all of our financial transactions and
keeps an eye on things going the way they are supposed to
go.
E-Mail: jutta.nitschkeindisches-forum.de |
Linda Hübner
Linda is involved with the work of the Indian Forum since
2006. She is currently the secretary to the board and
therefore responsible for the minutes at our meetings.
E-Mail: linda.huebnerindisches-forum.de |
Sebastian Keller
Sebastian is a founding member of the Indian
Forum and, together with Alexander,
responsible for the cooperation with the Indian
partners. He is fluent in Hindi and regularly visits our
partner schools in Chaibasa.
E-Mail: sebastian.kellerindisches-forum.de |
Alexander Nitschke
Alex is also a founding member and lives permanently in
India with his family. He, too, is fluent in Hindi and
coordinates the implementation of our projects in India.
E-Mail: alexander.nitschkeindisches-forum.de |
Franziska Suckow
Franziska
lived in Chaibasa for several months, in order to actively
support the projects of the Indian Forum there. She supports
the work of the executive board as a regular board member.
E-Mail: franziska.suckowindisches-forum.de |
Kassenprüfer:
Anke Keller
While Anke, in her function as our annual accounts auditor, is not a member of the
executive board, she nevertheless contributes actively
and decisively to the work of the Indian Forum.
E-Mail: anke.kellerindisches-forum.de |
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Our Partners
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Contact
Address:
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Indisches Forum "Mahatma Gandhi" e.V.
Schleusinger Straße 12
12687 Berlin
E-Mail:
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