Impact Stories

We invite you to gain insights into three impressive help alliance projects and discover what impact the work of help alliance has achieved in the two funding priorities Education and Work & Income as well as in the additional funding priorities in 2020. The impact stories show the changes at the societal level, e.g. changes in the social or economic situation of society.

Funding priority: Eduction

Impact Story from Indien: A happy childhood

Khushi and Manisha have real prospects for the future. The help alliance project in New Delhi gives them a school education and the chance for a better life.Laughing, playing and just being a child – this childhood, which is normal to many, was once unimaginable for Khushi. Growing up in a shack without running water in one of New Delhi’s 700 slums, the 13-year-old lives in extreme poverty. He is like many children here…Read more here

Funding priority: Work & Income

Impact Story from Germany: What comes after fleeing

Thanks to a help alliance project, Morteza has the chance to find a job and start anew in Frankfurt am Main. “I don’t have to hide in Germany. There are prospects there.” Morteza often repeated these sentences to himself. In his home country, Iran, he could have faced the death penalty because of his personal attitude toward religion. He saw escape as the only way out.The now 33-year-old had to make a dan-gerous journey…Read more here

Additional funding priorities

Impact Story from Togo: A future despite Corona

Elom made it. With the help of the help alli-ance project in Togo, she was able to start training as a tailor and even set up a small business during the Corona pandemic. A high school diploma and then? Does that not guarantee the prospect of a secure future? Not for Elom Agbana. The third child in a family of seven, she lives in Lomé, the capital of Togo. In this small West African country, about half of the eight million people live below the absolute poverty line…Read more here