Aktion Canchanabury

Founded in 1961, Aktion Canchanabury is a non-profit association based in Bochum, Germany working on health, education, children & youth +2 more.

Aktion Canchanabury e.V. is a non-profit association based in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1961 as the Aktion Leprakrankenhaus Canchanabury. It supports projects in Africa focused on health and education, with an emphasis on children, orphans, women and self-help. Its work includes funding projects that develop new approaches to the school, social and medical care of AIDS and war orphans, prevention work, ethnic integration and peaceful coexistence, microcredit for women, and community health insurance. The association is run by a volunteer board of six members elected by the general meeting, and its office in Bochum is supported by a small paid team and around 140 volunteers. It is recognised as charitable by the Finanzamt Bochum-Mitte and is audited annually by an independent auditing firm and elected cash auditors. Donations are used for projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Zambia.