Tangeni Shilongo Namibia e.V made the decision to voluntarily take part in the German initiative “Transparente Zivilgesellschaft”(Transparent Civil Community)
There are no uniform publishing regulations for charitable organizations in Germany, but our opinion is: Who acts for the public welfare should also be transparent to the public. Following the initiative of Transparency International Deutschland e.V., numerous participants from the civil and scientific community defined ten basic points every charitable organization should make accessible to the public. Signers of the initiative voluntarily oblige themselves to make those ten points easily available on their homepage and keep them up to date:
1. Name, Location, Address and Founding year
Tangeni Shilongo Namibia e. V.
Hartwichstrasse 59/61
50733 Cologne
Germany
Tangeni Shilongo Namibia
P.O. Box 676
13001 Swakopmund
Namibia
Founding year in Germany: 2015
Founding year in Namibia: 2021
2. Complete constitution
Education is widely regarded as the key to development, as it is the only means to create prosperity for future generations. Our goal is to provide as many children and young people in Namibia as possible, regardless of their families’ financial situation, with a realistic and fair chance at high-quality education. We aim not only to create space for education but also to foster social inclusion by facilitating encounters and enabling contact with other children and young people.
We achieve our goals by providing scholarships to motivated young people, creating classrooms and meeting spaces, offering warm and nutritious meals, implementing sports and educational projects, and organizing educational trips. The projects we support are designed for long-term improvement of living conditions and sustainable stability, and wherever possible, they align with the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Our complete Namibian statute can be found under “constitution”.
3. Notice of exemption
Germany
According to the notice of exemption from 05.11.2024 issued by the tax office Cologne North for the financial years 2021, 2022, 2023. The association is approved as tax-privileged, charitable body and exempted from the corporate- and business tax. It is entitled to issue donation receipts. Our financial books are created annually by Schwaderlapp & Kröll GbR in Germany.
You can find the current notice of exemption here as PDF.
Namibia
The association has been registered and recognized as a non-profit association in Namibia since March 2021. Our financial books are maintained by Prestige Accounting and Tax Services CC and audited annually by PKF Financial Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd in Namibia. You can find the registration documents here as PDF.
4. Name and function of decision-makers
According to our statute the organs of the association are the board and the membership meeting.
Members of the board are:
Volkan Sazli (1st director)
Malina John (2nd director)
Theresa Rhode (3rd director)
5. Report of activity
– Our Booklet –
(In this we summarize our association work since its foundation in 2015.
There should be two pages next to each other – otherwise please refresh.)
6. Structure of management
The members of the executive board/management work honorarily and free of charge.
7. Source and application of funds
As these documents contain sensitive information, we are happy to provide them by e-mail on request.
8. & 9. Social association with third parties
There are no contractual associations with third parties (e.g. parent and subsidiary company, support association, outsourced enterprise, partner organization), which have a significant influence on decisions made in our organization.
10. Payments making up more than 10% of the annual budget
We did not receive large donations from private persons that make up more than 10% of our annual income in Namibia.
