- Austrian Service Abroad
Infobox Non-profit
Non-profit_name = Austrian Service Abroad
Non-profit_
founded_date = 1998,Innsbruck ,Tyrol ,Austria
area_served = Global
focus =Holocaust memorials ,Anti-fascism ,Humanitarian aid ,Development aid ,Peace movement
method =National service alternatives, projects, seminars
homepage = [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/intro/US.htm www.auslandsdienst.at/]Austrian Service Abroad (formerly Austrian Association for Service Abroad) is a non-profit initiative, founded in 1998 by
Andreas Maislinger . The organization provides positions for an alternative Austrian national service all over the world. The regular nine month alternative national service (Zivildienst) is substituted by a 12-month service at one of its partner organisations abroad. There are great variations in the requirements. Austrian Service Abroad is an institution which provides young maleAustria ns with an alternative to the compulsory military service. Its main focuses aresocial work and Holocaust Memorial Service.Types of service
Austrian Service Abroad offers three different types of Zivildienst-substitutes:
*Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service ( [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Österreichischer_Gedenkdienst Österreichischer Gedenkdienst] )
*Austrian Social Service ( [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialdienst Österreichischer Sozialdienst] )
*Austrian Peace Service (Österreichischer Friedensdienst)Partners
The US is currently the country with the largest number of places offered for Holocaust Memorial Service. Well known
Holocaust Museums and Memorial Institutions like theSimon Wiesenthal Center and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation inLos Angeles receive Holocaust Memorial Servants every year. As for Social Service, the focus lies on the developing world. Nevertheless, Austrian Service Abroad also sends Social Servants to the Gay Men's Health Crisis center in New York, where the young Austrians help HIV infected people to cope with their disease. At present, Austrian Service Abroad sends young Austrians to the following partner institutions::::*
Buenos Aires - [http://www.chicosdelacalle.org Center for homeless children and adolescents]: Australia::*
Melbourne - [http://www.jewishmuseum.com.au Jewish Museum of Australia] ::*Melbourne -Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre :::*
Minsk - Belarusian Children's Hospice ::*Minsk - Dietski Dom No. 6 (Children's Home No. 6)::*Minsk - Kindergarten for Children with Special Needs:::*
Sarajevo - Phoenix Initiative:::*
Alagoinhas - Associacao Lar Sao Benedito ::*Lauro de Freitas - Community Centre Christ Liberator::*Rio de Janeiro - [http://www.cejil.org/main.cfm?switch=i/ Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)]:::*
Sofia - Schalom - Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria: Canada::*
Montreal - Holocaust Memorial Centre ::*Montreal - [http://web.mac.com/kff3/iWeb/Kleinmann%20Family%20Foundation/Welcome.html Kleinmann Family Foundation]:::* Santiago - CTD Galvarino - Sename (planned)
: China::*
Harbin -Harbin Jewish Research Center (planned) ::*Nanjing ::*Qiqihar - China SOS Children's Village Association ::*Shanghai - Center of Jewish Studies:::*
La Gamba - [http://www.lagamba.at/researchdb/pageen/index.php Tropical Field Station La Gamba]:::*
Prague - Federation of Jewish Communities: France::*
Oradour -Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour ::*Paris -La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation :::*
Lambaréné - Medical Research Unit,Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Germany ::*
Berlin -Jewish Museum Berlin ::*Cölbe - [http://www.terratech-ngo.de/english.htm/ Terra Tech] ::*Moringen - [http://www.gedenkstaette-moringen.de/geschichte/lager_eng/lager_eng.html/ Concentration Camp Memorial at Torhaus Moringen]:::*
Santa Rosita - ASOL Casa Hogar:::*
Budapest -European Roma Rights Centre :::*
Auroville - [http://www.auroville.org/ Auroville Action Group (AVAG)] ::*Dharamsala - [http://www.nishtha-hp.org/english/index.htm/ Nishtha Rural Health, Education and Environment Centre] ::*Dharamsala - [http://www.tibchild.org/ Tibetan Children´s Village] :*Dharmshala - ::*Kochi - [http://www.aimshospital.org/ Mata Amritanandamayi Mission]:::*
Jerusalem -St. Vincent-Ein Kerem ::*Jerusalem - The Alternative Information Centre ::*Jerusalem -Yad Vashem : Italy::*
Como - [http://www.isc-como.org/ Istituto di Storia Contemporanea "Pier Amato Perretta"(ISC)] ::*Milan -Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea ::*Prato -Museo della Deportazione : Japan::*
Hiroshima - Peace Culture Foundation:::*Granada - [http://www.c3mundos.org/ Casa de los Tres Mundos]
:::*
Amsterdam -UNITED for Intercultural Action :::*
Lahore - SOS SOS Children's Village Association ::*Lahore -proLoka Pakistan :::*
Lima - [http://www.cedro.org.pe/ The information and education centre for the prevention of drug abuse (CEDRO)]:::*
Kraków - Center for Jewish Culture ::*Kraków - PAH Polska Akcja Humanitarna ::*Oświęcim -Auschwitz Jewish Center :::*
Fort Portal -Mountains of the Moon University : United Kingdom::*London - Royal London Society for the Blind::*London - [http://www.yadvashem.org.il/ The National Yad Vashem Charitable Trust] ::*London - Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
: USA::*
Detroit -Holocaust Memorial Center ::*Houston -Holocaust Museum Houston ::*Los Angeles -Simon Wiesenthal Center ::*Los Angeles -Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust ::*Los Angeles -USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education ::*New York - [http://www.gmhc.org/ Gay Men's Health Crisis] ::*New York -Museum of Jewish Heritage ::*Reno - [http://www.unr.edu/chgps/blank.htm/ Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies] ::*Richmond -Virginia Holocaust Museum ::*San Francisco - [http://www.hcnc.org/ Holocaust Center of Northern California] ::*St. Petersburg - The Florida Holocaust MuseumAustrian Servant Abroad of the Year
2005 [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/tirol/mitarb/a_matt.htm Dr. Andreas Daniel Matt] ,
SOS Children's Villages Lahore ,Pakistan 2006 [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/noe/mitarb/m_wallner.htm Martin Wallner] ,
Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai ,China 2007 [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/ooe/mitarb/d_schuster.htm Daniel James Schuster] ,
Yad Vashem Jerusalem ,Isreal 2008 [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/noe/mitarb/r_laglstorfer.htm René J. Laglstorfer] ,
Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour ,France Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
In 2006 Austrian Service Abroad initiated the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA). Winners:
2006: Prof. Pan Guang,
Shanghai , PR China.2007:
Alberto Dines ,Sao Paulo ,Brazil 2008:
Robert Hébras ,Oradour-sur-Glane , FranceExternal links
* [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/intro/US.htm Austrian Service Abroad]
* http://www.gedenkdienst.org
* http://www.sozialdienst.at (German)
* http://www.friedensdienst.at (German)
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