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Social Investments with Impact are close to our hearts

The YOU Foundation, together with its founder, Dr. h.c. Ute-Henriette Ohoven, UNESCO Special Ambassador for Education for Children in Need, promote programs and projects worldwide that aim to create measurable added value (YOU-WIN-4) for its beneficiaries, the impacted countries, and our donors all while achieving the related SDGs. The goal is always the OUTCOME and the long-term impact (IMPACT). Through social investment, we help people help themselves. All projects aim to improve local conditions in the long term. Project development is participatory and carried out in such a way that it is either self-sustaining or taken over by the relevant local government authorities, communities or stakeholders to ensure sustainability in the best possible way… by creating "ownership feeling." The YOU Foundation is committed to creating improved impact and multiplicative change through self-organization.

  • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) with a special focus on the
  • UNESCO Education Agenda 2030 for inclusive, equitable and quality education, and training,
  • Quality health care,
  • Food security and agriculture in a changing climate,
  • WaSH (water, sanitation and hygiene),
  • Resilience and measures for income generating activities,
  • Resource conservation, affordable clean energy,
  • Human rights to promote decent living, equal opportunities and sustainable development on the ground are our goal.

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The Foundation promotes socially acceptable and sustainable development work with a special concentration on education. In all of our projects, the main focus is on the following three areas that are also in line with the New Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations:

QUALITY EDUCATION & VOCATIONAL TRAINING

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT & STRENGTHENING

GENDER EQUALITY & EQUAL CHANCES

PROTECTION OF RESOURCE, CLEAN ENERGY, SAFE WATER & WaSH

INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES

HEALHCARE & FOODSECURITY

HUMAN RIGHTS, LESS INEQUALITIES & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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The YOU Foundation – Education for Children in Need, an initiative of UNESCO Special Envoy Dr. h.c. Ute-Henriette Ohoven, is committed to education for the poorest of the poor worldwide.

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YOU Foundation – Education for Children in Need
Grafenberger Allee 87
40237 Düsseldorf, Germany

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