{"id":1172,"date":"2025-11-05T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indienkinder.de\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:09:23","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Management Board: Stefan Klautke, Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Stier<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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About us<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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When you visit our homepage for the first time, you will certainly ask yourself: What is it all about, who is behind it, …? ?<\/p>

We would therefore like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves.<\/p>

Our supporting association “Die indische Kinderarche e.V.” has a three-member board: Stefan Klautke, Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Stier – from left to right in the picture opposite.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Previous history<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Contacts with the family of the Indian pastor Raju go back to the 1970s. In 1999, a group of four people from Germany visited Rajahmundry. Rajahmundry is a large city in the state of Andhra Pradesh in south-eastern India, about 70 km from the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The visiting team in 1999<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The idea<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Inspired by the impressions gained in India and the exchange with friends there, the idea of a Christian-run home for needy children, especially orphans and children from the poorest backgrounds with no prospects for the future, was born.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A group of young people in an Indian village<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The implementation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The realization of this idea was planned in close consultation with Paul, a son and successor of Pastor Raju.<\/p>

Sponsors and donors were sought in German-speaking countries to finance the project.<\/p>

In November 2001, the Indian Children’s Ark was able to start operations by taking in 15 children in a rented house in Rajahmundry.<\/p>

At the same time, the non-profit organization “Die indische Kinderarche e.V.” was founded in Germany.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The first rented house of the Kinderarche in Rajahmundry<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The development<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The demand for admission to the Kinderarche was huge right from the start. As a result, another house soon had to be rented to accommodate the children.<\/p>

Finally, a plot of land was acquired near Kesavaram, about 20 km outside Rajahmundry, for the construction of their own home. <\/p>

The new children’s ark was completed and occupied in 2015. This has capacity for up to 100 children.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The opening of the new children's ark in Kesavaram<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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After the coronavirus lockdown, the authorities no longer allowed boys and girls to be accommodated in a facility. Since then, our girls have been supported and cared for by their families in the villages.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Girls are supported and encouraged in their home villages<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Finally, since summer 2022, another pillar of our work has been the education center in Rajavaram, a somewhat remote location with poor infrastructure, where needy children from the surrounding area receive outpatient school care.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Management Board: Stefan Klautke, Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Stier About us When you visit our homepage for the first time, you will certainly ask yourself: What is it all about, who is behind it, …? ? We would therefore like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves. Our supporting association “Die indische Kinderarche e.V.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1172\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indienkinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}