Osnabrück/Berlin – The international children's rights organization Terre des Hommes reports a net income of approximately €51.8 million for 2024, an increase of €3.1 million compared to the previous year. The income comes primarily from donations (€27.4 million) and co-financing (€19.4 million). Compared to the previous year, donations increased by €4.5 million in 2024, while co-financing decreased by approximately €3 million.
“Thanks to this support, we were able to fund a total of 416 projects in 2024 to empower disadvantaged and exploited children in 47 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East,” explains Joshua Hofert, spokesperson for Terre des Hommes . “This enabled us, together with our partner organizations, to support, for example, girls in Afghanistan who are banned from attending school after the sixth grade, to help children in Ukraine process traumatic experiences, and to provide families in Cambodia with clean drinking water. We were able to support working children in Peru and Bolivia in claiming their right to education and to assist young people in Zimbabwe in establishing child protection committees to defend themselves against the violence in their region.”
“Given the numerous humanitarian crises, such as those in Sudan, Myanmar, and the Sahel, we urgently need significantly more resources to provide aid there,” said Joshua Hofert. “It is therefore completely incomprehensible that the German government is currently cutting development cooperation funding and even wants to reduce humanitarian aid by over 50 percent. At a time when many countries, especially the USA, are withdrawing from their international responsibilities, it gives me hope that we are receiving more donations right now. Our donors refuse to accept that around 500 million children in conflict zones are suffering from hunger and disease, and that 138 million children still have to work so that their families can survive. I am very grateful to the supporters of Terre des Hommes for this.”