Service For Peace Austria

National Network
Austria
Address

Rennweg 45/12
1030 Vienna

Vienna
Austria

Telephone
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E-Mail
bpammer@serviceforpeace.org
E-Mail (2)
agumpelmair@serviceforpeace.org
Mobile Phone
0043 664 5316522
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
  2. International/Cultural relations
General Information
Service for Peace consists of an official board listing 8 members and many dedicated volunteers, no one is employed. Through our newsletter we reach an audience of over 200 contacts. Our partnerships are project-oriented. For every project we invite new sponsors and partners. We have good relationships with diverse local companies, clubs and the municipality in Steyr as well as institutions in Vienna. For our next youth exchange we formed partnerships with organizations from Israel (Youth Forum Israel), Palestine (Ta’awon - Palestinian Conflict Resolution) and Germany (Youth Parliament of the City Plauen). For Peace has consultative status within the UN ECOSOC. Our sources of funding are donations from the partners mentioned above and grants, for example the EU Youth in Action Program, which we have received for two of our projects. Our main activities are service projects, international youth exchanges and trainings for our volunteers.
Mission and Objectives

Service For Peace means establishing peace through service. We provide service and learning opportunities through community projects in order to cross barriers of race, religion, class, creed, or national origin, and address urgent social needs. We believe that peace begins with the inner peace fostered by service to others and that active cooperation provides the foundation and the real hope for peace. Our projects also aim at the eight Millenium Development Goals.
Our focus is breaking prejudices against the Arab communities in Austria. We do this in three ways: 1. By bringing youth from Austria and other European countries to the Middle East, especially Palestine and Israel and 2. by organizing local volunteer projects or camps for Austrian youth, local refugees and visitors from Arab countries and 3. by educating youth in schools through the Middle East Suitcase program.

Main Projects / Activities

Since the first youth exchange in the summer of 2006, "Building Bridges to Bethlehem", SFP Austria has given the possibility to 120 young people from the Middle East and 4 other countries of the world either to come in contact with the Austrian culture or to participate in an exchange in Israel and Palestine. As a result of the youth exchange "Europe Meets Middle East" in February 2008 we created the Middle East Suitcase. This workshop project about the Middle East expands the intercultural and interreligious competences and understanding of the participants and promotes lively ways of education. The target audience is Austrian youth from youth centres, schools and organisations. To bring together the residents from young refugees homes in Steyr and Vienna and youth from Austria we organize various activities like the theater project “Let’s play together”, crafts, cooking, hiking and many more.

Contact (1) Full Name
Bogdan Pammer
Head of the organisation
Bogdan Pammer
Contact (2) Full Name
Agnes Gumpelmair