Menschen für Menschen was brought into being by Karlheinz Böhm. Devastated by reports on the hunger disaster in the Sahel Zone, in 1981 Karlheinz Böhm used his popularity to help: his legendary bet in the TV show “Wetten, dass...?” yielded 1.2 million DM for the people of Africa. Böhm flew to Ethiopia for the first time in October 1981. On 13 November 1981 he founded the organization Menschen für Menschen, which he managed until 2011. Karlheinz Böhm died on 29 May 2014 at the age of 86. The goal of the Foundation Menschen für Menschen is to enable the people it supports to improve their living conditions by their own efforts within the foreseeable future – until one day, he envisaged, Ethiopia will no longer need help from the outside. In order to realize this goal according to our byelaws, we implement activities and provide funds for the improvement of water and food supplies, school education, general and vocational training, disease prevention and medical care, infrastructure, agriculture and husbandry. We also support the preservation of natural resources and educate the population on the health consequences of damaging traditions. Beyond this, Menschen für Menschen organizes campaigns to create awareness, to sensitize the population of industrial countries to the humanitarian crisis in poor countries and inform them about the work of the Foundation in Ethiopia. Media work, events and high profile campaigns are the main instruments. Menschen für Menschen wants to instigate long-term, sustainable changes. To this end we pursue the principle of integrated rural development projects. In Who we are and what we do a joint effort with the local population, who contribute a great deal of commitment and physical effort, we approach the activities needed for sustainable development, as detailed on page 8, and intermesh them with one another.