Author: Paul Wardenga

On February 10-12 the presidium and further representatives of SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL (SAM.I.) met with Hungarian decision makers.

Heroically helpful without superpowers – this is going to be the motto of SAM.I.’s 2014 campaign to raise awareness for the value of first aid skills and voluntary commitment.

On January 23, 2014 representatives of ASB, ASBÖ, ANPAS, ASSR and WK met in Brussels at the European Parliament to kick off their joint disaster relief project SAMETS. On January 23 representatives of five European Samaritan organisations met at the European Parliament. The meeting was made possible by Knut Fleckenstein, President of SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL and […]

The updated First-Aid-Apps of the White Cross for iPhone, iPad and Android have been available since the end of Summer 2013. Ever since then it has been downloaded 607,000 times!

The European welfare systems are under increasing pressure from global and European competition. On November 4, several representatives of European Samaritan organisations will meet in Copenhagen to work out a common position on the issue of social economy that is currently being debated on the EU level. This position will be contributed at a conference […]

Two projects by SAM.I. members have been nominated for the German ministry of the interior’s annual volunteering prize “Helfende Hand” (Helping Hand): The “Beltsamariter” project by ASB Schleswig-Holstein and Dansk Folkehjælp and the “Samariter interkulturell” (Samaritans intercultural) or “Sam In” project by ASB Berlin. The Beltsamariter project is establishing cross-border volunteering practices in Denmark and Germany […]

At the 7th international SAMARITAN Forum on August 22 in Berlin about 120 Samaritans discussed international cooperation and cross-border volunteering.

On August 21, the advisory committee of SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL met in Berlin. They decided to admit three new members to the network.

For ASB’s 125th anniversary, the history of the organisation was symbolically captured in a photograph. Volunteers and employees from various areas and vehicles from a timespan of more than 100 years posed in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to demonstrate the motto of the anniversary year: “Times are changing. Our aid remains.”   […]

An ANPAS Civil protection exercise, named Ayasse 2013, took place from 28 to 30 of June at Champorcher (Aosta Valley, Italy). Six different scenarios were created simulating explosions, accidents, searching of missing persons, water rescue and first aid.