Short Name
BfdW
Address Line 1
4th floor
Address Line 2
Lakeside Green Building
Street - Number and Name
No. 33 Truc Bach Street
District
City
Hanoi
Province – Vietnam
Phone
+84 4 3762 6436
Fax
+84 4 3762 6437
Email Address
Contact Person – Vietnam
Jan Papendieck - Regional Representative Vietnam-Laos
Vietnam Website
International Website
International Headquarters
Mission Statement
Brot für die Welt (BfdW) is a campaign of church-related development aid cooperation under the auspices of the Evangelical Regional and Free Churches in Germany. The executive lies with the head office of the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Churches in Germany (Diakonisches Werk der EKD). BfdW was founded in Berlin in 1959. On the basis of the Christian commandment "love the neighbour" BfdW wants to be instrumental in helping to overcome hunger, poverty and social deprivation in the so-called developing countries in the South by enabling the poor of these regions to help themselves. BfdW supports development activities of local partners in different fields based on the concept of partnership. Concurrent with the assistance to people in developing countries, BfdW aims to increase public understanding in Germany. This implies making people aware of the complex issues of social justice, human rights and a just global economic order through development education and advocacy. Since the year 2012, Brot für die Welt merged with its sister organisation Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED, Church Development Service) to a new organisation called "Brot für die Welt - The protestant development service" and relocted its headquarter to the capital of Germany, Berlin.
History of operations in Vietnam
Since its inception Brot für die Welt has had contact with Viet Nam and approved its first grant in 1961. These contacts related to the South of the country mainly, but in 1973 already, prior to the unification of the country, the reconstruction of the Hai Phong Children's Hospital was a major project to be supported. After the unification in 1976 substantial contributions to emergency programmes and infrastructure improvements primarily in the health sector were made available. With the opening of the country after the Sixth Party Congress in 1986, new opportunities arose and with the appointment of a liaison officer for Viet Nam, based in Bangkok for a number of years, before the office was moved to Hanoi in 1996, it was possible to be involved in a variety of development activities. Around the year 2007, the area of operations was extended to Laos, which was until then supported directly from Germany.