MEDEA e.V. was founded in 2002 by Gertrud Langensiepen with the aim of providing a permanently based medical development project for children in Africa. Natural catastrophes, wars and the pandemic HIV/AIDS destroy, often over more generations, human fundamentals. Within the context of humanitarian aid, we develop and carry out projects with the principle “Helping others to help themselves“. We want to help people living in poverty and distress, to eventually improve their situation by learning how to help themselves. With this mind, our main concern is particularly concentrated on the children.
Managing Director from 2002 to 2023
1973 – Training as a pediatric nurse
1982 – With the committee / CAP ANAMUR / in Africa
1992 – With the committee / DOCTORS FOR THE THIRD WORLD / in the Philippines
1997 – India, slums of Calcutta, hospice / MOTHER TERESA
1999 – With / DIE JOHANNITER / in Kosovo
2002 – Founding of the association / MEDEA e.V.
2004 – Projects for MEDEA e.V. in cooperation with the NGO / TERRA TECH
2008 – Managing Director & Full-time Project Coordinator / MEDEA e.V.
2015 – Projects for MEDEA e.V. in cooperation with the NGO / Tatort – Straßen der Welt e.V.
