OUR PURPOSE:

• Coaching and supporting migrants from West Africa who want to return to their countries of origin in order to create a livelihood and business opportunities for themselves.

OUR PRINCIPLE:

• Working together with migrants at eye level (see Yamalé)

OUR OBJECTIVES:

• Developing lighthouse projects which show that success in the home countries is possible
• Creating prospects in the home countries for the returnee, his or her family, employees and community.
• Funding innovations in economic, social and cultural areas.

OUR METHOD:

• Making contact with the returnees
• Creating teams to support the projects
• Creating a business plan in cooperation with the programme „StartHope@Home“ by the coaching agency Social Impact
• Joined fundraising (presentations by the returnees, donation campaigns etc.)
• Accompanying the returnees and continued project support in the home countries
• Start-up funding at the beginning, afterwards staggered provision of donations depending on the development of the project

ANTICIPATED LONG-TERM EFFECTS:

• Creating a better understanding within the German population for the challenges in the home countries of the returnees and for political and economic coherences in the area of migration and development cooperation
• Building steady relationships that lay the ground for an ethical economic cooperation between Germany and the home countries of the returnees in accordance with the Agenda 2030.