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Austrian Social Service

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The Austrian Social Service (Österreichischer Sozialdienst) is part of the Austrian Service Abroad founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998. It offers the possibility to substitute the compulsory military service in Austria with a 10-months service abroad and provides a platform for volunteering services.

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As part of the Austrian Service Abroad the Austrian Social Service is funded and supervised by the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs and subject to the federal law for the promotion of voluntary engagement (Bundesgesetz zur Förderung von freiwilligem Engagement.)[1]

Mission and structure

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The Austrian Social Service supports socially vulnerable groups and the social and economic development of the host country. Austrian Social Servants are deployed in various kinds of partner organizations in a large number of countries. The focus lies on the developing world.

Assignments

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The Austrian Social Servants work in the fields of education, care, medical support, agriculture and economic development for street or homeless children, elderly, handicapped, ill, poor and / or marginalized people. Furthermore, also the field of environmental protection belongs to the Austrian Social Service, partnering with organizations engaged in projects for the protection and sustenance of the natural environment.

Since 2018 the Austrian Service Abroad also partakes in the program Understanding Israel, sending young Austrians to do social service at child-care places and handicapped-care facilities in the state of Israel in cooperation with the Israeli Volunteer Association.

Partners

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 Argentina

  • Buenos Aires – Center for homeless children and adolescents

 Belarus

  • Minsk – Belarusian Children's Hospice
  • Minsk – 'Dietski dom no. 6' – Kinderheim no. 6
  • Minsk – Kindergarten for Children with Special Needs

 Belgium

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Brazil

 China

 Costa Rica

 Czech Republic

  • Prague – The Jewish community of Prague

 Germany

 Gabon

 Guatemala

 India

 Israel

  • Jerusalem – St. Vinzenz-Ein Karem
  • Understanding Israel

 Kenya

  • Nairobi – Kenya Water for Health Organisation (KWAHO)

 Nicaragua

  • Granada – Fundación Casa de los tres mundos
  • León – Campo Recreativo MILAVF

 Norway

  • Oslo – Jodisk Aldersbolig

 Pakistan

 Peru

  • Huancayo – Unidad Territorial de Salud Daniel Alcides Carrión
  • Lima – The information and education centre for the prevention of drug abuse (CEDRO)

 Poland

  • Kraków – Polska Akcja Humanitarna

 Romania

  • Iaşi – The hope of Romanian children

 Russia

  • Moscow – Together For Peace (TFP)
  • Moscow – Centre for social development and self-help "perspective"

 Uganda

 United Kingdom

 United States

References

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  1. ^ "Bundesgesetz zur Förderung von freiwilligem Engagement".
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