Terre des Hommes General Assembly elects new Presidential Board .
Osnabrück/Bad Honnef, September 29, 2024 – At their annual general assembly, the volunteer members of Terre des Hommes re-elected Regina Hewer as Chair of the Presidential Board of the international children's rights organization Terre des Hommes for another year. The 68-year-old has been a member of the Presidential Board since 2016 and a long-standing volunteer with the Terre des Hommes group in Delmenhorst-Ganderkesee. Regina Hewer is a natural scientist with additional training in business administration and has worked in research, IT, and human resources management throughout her long career, until she became Managing Director of a manufacturing company within an international corporate group.
“I am fully committed to Terre des Hommes because I can combine concrete aid with the political commitment to realizing children’s rights,” Hewer explained in her acceptance speech. “In light of a political shift to the right and the questioning of the importance of development cooperation, it is more necessary than ever to advocate for a just world and to clearly articulate what needs to change. I would like to contribute to this for another year so that our world becomes a better place for children.”
The six-member Presidential Board a voluntary body, functions as a supervisory board. It decides on the strategic direction and business policy of Terre des Hommes and oversees the work of the full-time executive board. Christoph Dallmayr (Munich) was elected Vice Chair of the Presidential Board . Robert Kissling (Bremen), Udo Hentrich (Düsseldorf), Servet Karakoyun (Heidelberg), Bilal Hasaf (Herford), and Philipp Sammer (Berlin) were elected as board members.
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