Organization | Team | Funding


Who we are

APN – Architects for People in Need is an independent organization from Munich, Germany. Most of our members are experienced architects and engineers. In May 1992 we started as a working group for the development and implementation of concepts for providing emergency aid and building shelters in the former Yugoslavia. In 2000 we decided to expand our humanitarian work and founded APN e.V., a registered, charitable organization.

We see architecture in context with social responsibility and humanitarian engagement. Architecture is "built" environment; we are using and living in architecture on a daily basis. Architects build schools, preschools, hospitals, habitations, and they also take care of the corresponding technical infrastructure for water and wastewater management, and power distribution.

Lasting improvements of the human environment are not possible without architecture:
A physician needs a room for his patients.
A teacher needs a classroom for his students.
People need a shelter to survive.
Everybody needs clean water.


what we do

We rebuild – infrastructure, homes, perspectives
We help those who are in need or are provided only a bare subsistence and limited perspectives, due to war, expulsion, or persecution.

We help through immediate aid and humanitarian relief measures
We build emergency shelters, including medical and social facilities, and make sure they are operated and maintained properly. We take care of basic supply with food, drugs, and clothing.

We help through reconstruction, and we help people to help themselves
We rebuild destroyed or damaged homes, hospitals, and schools and the corresponding infrastructure. Focal point of our work is the concept of helping people to help themselves. We enable people to lay the foundation for an economically sustainable way of living.

We help by improving the way of living in slums and poor neighborhoods
All over the world, people living in slums are in the same depressing situation:
no education, no medical care, contaminated water, and hardly any chance to break out of the vicious circle of poverty and misery.

We are paving the road to a better future for these people: by building and operating social facilities and schools, by establishing vocational institutions, and by improving their way of living through medical care and the supply of clean water.


Who is doing what at APN?

Our team in Iraq
Dipl.-Ing. (graduated engineer) Alexander Christof, chairman
Dipl.-Ing. (graduated engineer) Andrea Hilger, vice chairman
Helga Fleischhacker, organization and logistic
Werner Lindinger, construction manager

The team is responsible for the evaluation and execution of projects, and for providing immediate aid.
Local employees support the team.

Our team in Munich
Our central office in Munich is the information hub of our organization: contact to the press, marketing and administration of donations, accounting, selection of applicants

Local contact:
Dipl.-Ing. (graduated engineer) Renate Pfanzelt

Financial auditing by: WTC Treuhand GmbH, Munich


Funding

How is APN funded?
APN is a non-profit organization, supported through public funding and private donations. We follow standard accounting procedures, and are audited on a regular basis by an independent financial auditing firm.

APN is recognized as charitable organization by the Munich tax office (tax number 842/17190). APN is also registered as organization (e.V., VR 17106) at the magistrates court in Munich.