We set out to the field with the mobile school of LEEDO. It was a great experience seeing how the children enjoyed learning bangla, math and life values. Here is a video showing our impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmUqMbb5Ac Make sure you check out our Instagram account and stay up to date with our progress: @go_ng3o or www.instagram.com/go_ng3o
We made a plan! For the upcoming 5 weeks we have scheduled a variety of tasks ranging from producing an image video to writing a convincing proposal for a project that requires 25.000€ funding - each year. Our working plan for the first week said: Get to know the organisation and their work. And this is exactly what we did. We met all the employees and visited several projects LEEDO [...]
The first days are over: after a long journey we were welcomed very warm-heartedly by the LEEDO family! The first few days we spent getting to know LEEDOs work and evaluating where we might start to work. Finally our project has started! Our flight took us from Germany via London to New Dehli, where we spent a night before flying on to Bangladesh. At the airport Rana, a LEEDO staff [...]
Now it is fixed! The first NGO we will cooperate with is called LEEDO. They focus on the well-being of street children in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. The orginasation operates different programs from mobile schools to temporary shelters to an orphanage named "Peace Home" - we are excited to travel there and work with them! Many tourist visit Asia but Bangladesh is usually not at the top of the list. Many [...]
The university of Kiel offers a programm focussing on social entrepreneurship. We applied for 2000€ funding and got awarded! With the money we are able to finance the equipment for our organization We are happy and proud that the jury chose NG3O as one of the winning projects! The coaching from the YooWeeDoo Team and the attached funding are a huge step towards bringing NG3O to life. We are very [...]
We want to use the support of many to get NG3O off the ground. So we started a campaign on betterplace.org to be able to receive funds online. We want to tap into the power of many! We need to raise an amount of 7500€ to get NG3O off the ground. The biggest chunk of this amount will be spend on traveling costs, the second biggest part is money needed [...]
The university of Kiel has a programm focussing on social entrepreneurship. We applied for 2000€ funding, in an online voting we can raise another 1000€ if we accumulate the most votes of all teams! The programm is called ‘Yooweedoo’ and they provide a lot of useful information about how to get from an idea to a proper project. Once a year they start a competition and we created and tweaked [...]
To fund our undertaking we identified different scources of funding. Next to donations from individuals and companies, we will kick off a crowdfunding campaign in the next year. On top of that in the past week we have been looking for funding from institutions and discovered that there are a few competitions our project might fit in and have a chance to win funding. ‘We need money’ is a sentence [...]
You don't have a clue why we post videos on Youtube? You would like to know why Sharing is so important for us? Here are the answers! We put together a video to explain our idea within two minutes. (Activate Subtiles if you like :) ) You have questions? Send us a message using our Contact form or e-Mail :)
One of the organisations we were most excited to meet on our fact finding mission in Manila was Young Focus. They are located in Tondo, with the biggest informal settlement close-by and the reputation of being dangerous. Our Uber dropped us off just in front of Young Focus’ office, a building located in the residential area just a stone throw away from the bridge that leads to the informal settlements. [...]
