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Please heed the following pieces of advice:
■ Be careful whom you give your money!
■ Ask questions! The less information you get the
more doubtful is the purpose!
■ Mistrust any obtrusive charity appeals!
■ If you are unsure: Obtain information first and,
only when you are satisfied with it, donate!
■ Focus your donations on organisations known to
you as serious!
■ Ask for substantive written information!
If you are in doubt, inform yourself!
The reports of the Federal Government and the federal
states about the protection of the Constitution offer
further information at www.verfassungsschutz.de.
You willl find further general information about
donation schemes and on counselling for donors at the
Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen (German
Central Institute for Social Issues) at www.dzi.de.
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Whom do you
want to help with
your donations?
Check whom you want
to support!
Many cases prove that collected donations benefit
organisations and persons who use these funds directly or
indirectly to finance terrorist activities.
Obtain reliable information about the credibility of those
who collect donations!
Assure yourself that you do not in any way support
terrorist activities with your donation!
See to it that your good intentions to help people in need
do not eventually achieve the opposite aim.
Please ask the following questions
to make sure that your donations achieve
the right aim:
Bear in mind that supporting banned organisations is
punishable.
What is the objective pursued by those who collect
donations?
The reports of the Federal Government and the federal
states about the protection of the Constitution give you
an overview of the organisations banned in Germany.
How is the charity appeal designed? Is the advertisement
objective, unambiguous and informative?
Don’t give your donations into wrong hands!
Without donations in kind or cash, humanitarian assistance
is hardly possible in situations of crisis, disaster or for the
fate of an individual.
Numerous organisations and private persons appeal to
your willlingness to help.
Are you sure that these appeals are serious and
that your donation in fact benefits humanitarian
purposes only?
Is the donation solely and exclusively used to pursue
charitable purposes?
Are questions addressed to the organisation answered
frankly?
Does the organisation also provide financial reports or
reports about its activities?
Does the organisation subject itself to audits by third
parties?
Is there concrete evidence of the projects promoted with
donations?