Apfelbaum Foundation
Committing to the continuing value of the constantly new sowing and planting, the growing and ripening, the nursing and harvesting - in spite of all current and future disorders, disasters and death.
Committing to the continuing value of the constantly new sowing and planting, the growing and ripening, the nursing and harvesting - in spite of all current and future disorders, disasters and death.
Contribute to the nurturing of youth, help build a better world where people can fulfill their potentials and make effective contributions towards building society, become the world's leading youth nurturing movement, and empower 100 million youth to bringing about positive change to their communities and globally based on shared values.
Study the economic, social and cultural relations in the Arab world, and examine them with other countries in order to strengthen dialogue and promote cooperation, in ways that serve mutual interests; contribute to the formation of an Arab scientific stance towards development problems so as to achieve an effective contribution towards the formulation of global order, and place international relations on a fair and equal basis that serves economic integration; build bridges between thought leaders and decision-makers in the Arab world to serve cooperation among them in public policies, and ensure public participation; focus attention towards future studies relating to the affairs of Arab countries and their international relations.
Help individuals get rid of stress and experience inner peace; offer stress-elimination programmes which include breathing techniques, meditation, and yoga.
Encourages and supports philanthropy worldwide, and works for interfaith and intercultural understanding, especially among the young.
Advance mutual understanding and collaboration between the people of Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges; act as the civil society outreach of the Asia-Europe Meeting; work as a platform for Asia-Europe dialogue to stimulate permanent networks that reinforce Asia-Europe bi-regional relations; act as an interface between civil society and ASEM governments and consequently, contributes to the ASEM process by generating unique recommendations for officials' consideration.
Work with religious communities to develop religious leaders highly skilled in and knowledgeable about leadership in multifaith and plural societies and in addressing the personal and social challenges in a rapidly evolving world through professional pre-service and in-service programmes.
Serve the common perception of missionary responsibility of members; carry out tasks of the World Mission and Evangelism, which are beyond the scope and impact of its members; support the Evangelical Church in Germany and their member churches, and the Mission's member churches in different missionary orientation of the church's work and promote the collaboration of church and mission as well as the cooperation of regional missions and missionary societies; serve the cooperation of its members, particularly in the areas of missionary proclamation, missiology, education and training for missionary services and relations with churches and regional and continental ecclesial cooperation overseas; support tasks of World Mission and Evangelism, which require the cooperation between its members, especially in the fields of medical mission, the “World Bible Support”, theological education overseas, the Christian literature development and the church's use of mass media in overseas, society-related services of churches and church groups in overseas, the pro-development actions of churches, interchurch aid and missionary outreach; cooperate with the facilities of the church development service, the ecumenical Diakonia and church work abroad; perform the tasks of the German Protestant Missionary Day in accordance with the agreement from 29 October 1976; assume tasks at the request of individual members if no member objects; respect the responsibility of its members in its preparation and execution of tasks; be open to cooperation with missionary societies and missionary working groups, even if they are not a member.
Favour reflection on Jesuit educational ideals and their implementation in each partner university; promote the integration of our universities and our countries in their aim of transforming social structures in favour of the poor; exchange our resources and experiences to foster academic excellence; collaborate with the Provincial Conference for Latin America (CPAL) in order to promote actions to define the apostolic mission of the partner universities and to ensure that they are consistent with Christianity and with the principles and responsibility that characterise the Society of Jesus; promote with the CPAL the intellectual apostolate university vocation of lay people and Jesuits; contribute to the exchange of academic staff, beyond the national borders, to foster a more Latin American and universal vision and practice; establish a process to collect, concentrate, and disseminate information in exchange with our partner universities to foundations and institutions that can provide support to the university tasks.
The Institute's mission is to contribute to the liberation process and human development in Peru from the Christian perspective of the preferential option for the poor with a comprehensive proposal for the training needs of our beneficiaries