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Newsticker Archiv 2016/2017

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11/2017
Public Schools Founded
The well-known Duisburger company Schauinsland-Reisen GmbH donated a total of 30 premium PCs including LCD screens to ZAC e.V. This donation will be the decisive component for the ZAC project “modern training systems” at two schools in the Lutindi village community, where ZAC will establish its children’s village. The Lutindi Primary School and the Mashindei Secondary School will be equipped with these PCs for learning purposes. The schools thus obtain enhancement in the regional environment.

10/2017
Being active on site for ZAC
Since October, 1st 2017 Peter Ombeni is working for ZAC e.V. in Tanzania.

Peter Ombeni (Member of CBRO board) is regional networker in close contact with local and regional politicians. He is responsible for coordinating and monitoring local tasks and will try his best to raise the acceptance of the project and to integrate the children’s village in the regional village community. He is also in charge of our additional school founding project “Digital Education” from which the primary and secondary schools will benefit. The first 30 PCs including LCD screens have already been donated by a company located in Duisburg.

Peter Ombeni (Member of CBRO board) is regional networker in close contact with local and regional politicians. He is responsible for coordinating and monitoring local tasks and will try his best to raise the acceptance of the project and to integrate the children’s village in the regional village community. He is also in charge of our additional school founding project “Digital Education” from which the primary and secondary schools will benefit. The first 30 PCs including LCD screens have already been donated by a company located in Duisburg.

09/2017
First meeting of ZAC members, supporters and object godparents
ZAC invited 14 ZAC friends to the MSV Duisburg’s club tavern for an initial meeting and interesting exchange of question related to the project. To be continued.

08/2017
ZAC information using social network
ZAC is now on Facebook and Twitter.

07/2017
Copper Coin Collection Frenzy
ZAC has enlarged its fundraising by an important element. The “Copper Coin Collection Frenzy 2017/2018” has been started.
A large number of very enthusiastic people from Duisburg are collecting copper coins for a couple of years. The proceeds will be used in 2018 to finance the roofed village assembly point in “Umbele Village”.
Central collection points for the coins are located in the ZebraShop, which is located in the stadium of MSV Duisburg and in the Duisburger Königsgalerie, where the MSV stadium model is presented to the public.

07/2017
Cooperation with the university of cooperative education
A couple of weeks ago, ZAC started a long-term cooperation with the Hans-Sachs-Berufskolleg (HSBK) (technical collage) in Oberhausen, Germany. The renowned university of cooperative education teaches engineers in different specialist areas. HSBK will be responsible for the technical planning of the children’s village and develops the technical basics for the energy and water supply. HSBK renders these services free of charge for ZAC e.V. This year, a delegation from KSBK will travel to Lutindi/Usambara mountains for an onsite inspection.

07/2017
More members, more supporters
Great! Since May 2017, the number of club members has doubled from 18 to 41, at present. The original two supporting members have become five supporting members.

06/2017
Advancement award received
The jury of the Town & Country foundation has awarded the ZAC e.V. project with a foundation price. The official “symbolic” award ceremony together with the foundation money will be held in September.

05/2017
Visitors from Tanzania
ZAC employee Si-yeun Hammerbacher from Lutindi/Tanzania visited Duisburg and reported about the latest developments, especially the current status of the site question.

[from left to right] Margit Suhr (finance chairperson), Si-yeun Hammerbacher (chief executive Tanzania), Holger Glücks (chairperson), Randolf Jandt (communication chairperson)

05/2017
MSV Traditional Market
ZAC e.V. had an information desk in the stadium at the first traditional market of MSV Duisburg. MSV Duisburg donated parts of the proceeds from the auction to ZAC e.V. New members could be found, who support the ZAC e.V. project. The picture below shows Margit Suhr (financial chairperson).

03/2017
Green Light
According to information provided by our Tanzanian employee Si-yeun Hammerbacher, government agencies have granted the general permission to build a children’s village in Lutindi. The only thing left to do is the transfer of the site from Mohammed Enterprises (owner) to ZAC e.V., which is scheduled for April this year.

03/2017
Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2016
The first annual general meeting of ZAC e.V. will take place on May, 12th 2017 at 19.02 o’clock in the club tavern of MSV Duisburg at Westender Strasse in Duisburg, Germany. Invitations with the agenda had been sent in due course to the members.

01/2017
Donation Ceremony
Roland Schaffer (on the left), president of the Grafschafter Lions Club Moers (GLCM), hands over an object godparenthood to ZAC e.V. in the amount of 2.000 Euros.

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12/2016
Donation Ceremony
Baris Özbek, a former MSV Duisburg player, supports ZAC e.V. with a generous donation and became a huge fan of the project and work of ZAC e.V. He wants to engage further in the project in future. Here is a picture of Baris and Holger Glücks (chairperson) during the donation handover in the youth training centre (Nachwuchsleistungszentrum “NLZ”) of MSV Duisburg.

10/2016
A ZAC activist is one his way to a multi-week visit to Tanzania. The main focus of this trip is to find several suitable sites where our children’s village is to be erected.

09/2016
On September 19th and 26th, a dinner party was held for which ZAC had have a tombola where people could win a dinner with his’/hers’ greatest legend (player). Unforgettable impressions for all participants. Sponsored by Duisburger Hof.

07/2016
MSV legend Bernard Dietz played the bringer of good luck for those winning a ZAC legend dinner and drew the winners for each dinner partner.

MSV legend Bernard Dietz played the bringer of good luck for those winning a ZAC legend dinner and drew the winners for each dinner partner.

 

Annual Reports

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The managing committee of the ZAC e.V. has obliged itself to offer the maximum of transparency to the public.
One of these criteria is the information on the source and the application of funds, which will be presented here in accounting on a cash basis form, stipulated by the tax authorities, ordered by fiscal years to whom it may concern.

This category will later contain annual reports for each fiscal year in the corresponding fiscal year section. Please use the corresponding tab pages.

Transparency

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The managing committee of the ZAC e.V. has obliged itself to offer the maximum of transparency to the public.
One of these criteria is the information on the source and the application of funds, which will be presented here in accounting on a cash basis form, stipulated by the tax authorities, ordered by fiscal years to whom it may concern.

This category will later contain annual reports for each fiscal year in the corresponding fiscal year section. Please use the corresponding tab pages.

Annual report 2016 as well as accounting on a cash basis 2016

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Annual report fiscal year 2016 (April 13th, 2016 to December 31st, 2016)

On February 13th, 2016, Zebras Active Community e.V. (hereinafter referred to as ZAC e.V.) has been established by eight (8) founding member during a foundation assembly. Holger Glücks (chairperson) and Thomas Maasen (deputy chairperson) had been elected as persons authorised to represent the registered association. ZAC e.V. has given itself articles of association and some procedural rules. ZAC has been entered into force upon registration in the register of associations in March 2016. The preliminary recognition of the benefit to the public by the tax office has been carried out in the meantime by the tax office Duisburg-Nord, Germany.

The aim of ZAC is to build a children’s village including infrastructure and training workshops for impaired children in Tanzania. The forecast for the overall project, which only refers to the mere construction costs, requires capital needs in the amount of approximately EUR 300,000, which should be collected by means of donations from medium-sized businesses and the industry. These costs have been estimated on the basis of a reference project in Tanzania.

In a first step, all administration matters, which make operational handling possible, starting with building an Internet web space, printing letterheads have been performed by volunteers.

In the next step, meetings were held with the Freundeskreis Bagamoyo Ahlen (so-called circle of friends) with which a friendly and consulting cooperation could be concluded. The circle of friends is charitable organisation and works in Tanzania itself and has valuable experience regarding building planning and building in the country. Thanks to the circle of friends, we got in touch with the wife of the administrative head of the Lutindi Mental Hospital, Si-yeun Hammerbacher, who has now become a valuable member, helping us on site in Tanzania. Si-yeun helped us to get the site transferred to ZAC e.V. free of charge. Si-yeun got in touch with the biggest and regional Tanzanian employer MeTL-Group. MeTL-Group has been so kind to transfer a 45,000 m² site for building the children’s village in an area of the Usambara mountains at an altitude of 1,240 meters above sea level, free of charge. The final, legally binding transfer could not take place earlier than 2017 once a Tanzanian NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) had been established. This had been completed in the first quarter of 2017.

For the initial funding, a dinner night was held where legends (former MSV Duisburg players from the team that started in the newly established Bundesliga in 1963) were auctioned on behalf of the project (turnover approximately EUR 2,800) and PR as started as well. The ZAC web space was enriched by further information and some well-known individuals from Duisburg started talking about the ZAC project.

The largest costs (900 Euros) were accrued in 2016 for printing and sending flyers to about 1,000 regional medium-sized businesses to make them more acquainted with ZAC e.V. and its project and to receive donations and to obtain new members. The result has been more or less convincing. The so-called ZAC handout, a very sophisticatedly designed information brochure for potential object godparenthoods and large sponsors, was created and printed by members of ZAC, free of charge. We obtained some donations, among which are large donations for some of the offered object godparenthoods. In 2016, we obtained the first sixteen (16) members and two (2) supporting members, only a small step towards the 150 required members. Member fees and supporting member fees are intended to finance the operating costs of the children’s village in future. A total of EUR 25,500 could be achieved in 2016. Fiscal advice has been given to ZAC e.V. thanks to the voluntary help of Angelika R. Liening (tax consultant).

The 2016 annual account can be taken from the section underneath the annual report 2016. One of our highest esteemed principle is to make our work as transparent as possible. This is so that our members, supporters and donators have a clear view on how we source and apply our funds. Transparency means trust.

Duisburg, 30.03.2017
Holger Glücks
Chairperson