united in our dedication to children’s rights

Board Members

Team Members

Mission and Vision

Objectives

Our Statute

Legal Documents

BOARD MEMBERS

Diya-Light of Hope e. V. was founded by Andrea Steffen and Dr. Amit Kumar Sachan

  • Chairperson: Andrea Steffen | Germany
  • Vice Chairperson: Narmatha Yohendram | Germany
  • Secretary: Sarah Staubach | Germany
  • Project Manager: Dr. Amit Kumar Sachan | Switzerland

ANDREA STEFFEN | Chairperson of the Board

Andrea Steffen is one of the Founders and Chairperson of Diya-Light of Hope e. V.. Andrea has her background in Social Work, Psychology, Arts and Education (Master of Arts in Social Work, Hochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany). She works with refugees in Germany, and is employed at Caritas Konstanz as Immigration Manager. Since 2013, Andrea started her volunteer as humanitarian work in India. She worked in an orphanage and a school for “underprivilege” children. This gave her the inspiration to start an Association to help people around the world. She spends most of her leisure in working with the organization. She believes that every person has the right to live with dignity and wants to make the world an intercultural place. To help other people returns in our own happiness.

NARMATHA YOHENDRAM | Vice Chairperson of the Board

Narmi has her background in Nursing. Currently, she is working in Cardiology Clinic in Herford, and helps patients with heart-related disease. Her parents are originally from Sri Lanka, and she is conversant with the Indian-Tamil Culture. Since beginning, She is with the NGO as the vice Chairperson. She believes in humanity work., and wants to contribute for our society.

SARAH STAUBACH | Secretary

Sarah has her background in Social Work and Psychology (Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, Hochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany). She has working experience with children suffering from mental illness. She is also working with the NGO since the beginning, as she believes in supporting those people who are in need of help. She believes in helping wherever help is needed.

Dr. AMIT KUMAR SACHAN | Project manager

Amit is a research scholar and has background in Biophysics, Bioengineering, Nanoscience and related multidisciplinary research (Ph.D. in Biophysics, University of Muenster, Germany). Currently, he is employed as Scientific Research Assistant II at ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Since the inception of this NGO, he has been associated with it. He is one of the founder members of this organization. Besides having a strong passion for science and research, he has a finely honed inclination for social causes. His active participation during an anti-corruption movement (2010-2013) in India had yielded a clear thought and direction to his journey towards social causes and problems existing across different societies in the world.

TEAM MEMBERS

Our Team consists of people who comes from diverse backgrounds and countries and share the same passion in their life. All our members work as Volunteers and bear the cost from personal resources.

Our members:

  • Kokiladevi Yohendram | Germany
  • Sripurushothaman Yohendram | Germany
  • Netharsan Yohendram | Germany
  • Bianca Isac | Germany
  • Christian Steffen | Germany
  • Kamila Turczynski | Germany
  • Kristika Nethiyananthan | Germany
  • Senthuran Nithiyananthan | Germany
  • Kathrin Spohrer | Germany
  • Annegret Steffen | Germany
  • Grace Wang | Canada

Our Mission and Vision

“If we follow our dreams and vision, we can make the world into a better place”.  ~ Andrea Steffen
 
Changing the world by empowering children and people, as every child and person has the right to be educated, feel safe and be loved. We do this by providing quality education, and we want to inspire other people around the world to help each other to create a better place in this world.
 
Our organization supports projects in India with the main objective of educating children living in poverty. The children who have a challenging background in which parents are unable to financially support them, will have a chance for a better future through our projects as it gives them a chance to get a fundamental education. We work together with the local community, providing school materials and scholarship for education.
 
We believe in communities, by sharing and engaging with the global community, maybe we will inspire other people around the world to take a step in finding solutions for creating a world to be a better place to live in. We believe that even one light of hope can make a difference in someone’s life.

OUR OBJECTIVES

WHAT WE CARE FOR!

Bringing Dreams within Reach for Homeless Children and Orphans

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Promoting and Supporting Girls’s Education

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Assisting and Empowering Single Mothers

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Support for Disabled and Old People

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Aid to Rural Areas

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child, poor, poverty

Aid during Pandemic

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Our Statute

  • Vereinssatzung | Statute of our Organization_German (PDF)
  • Vereinssatzung | Statute of our Organization_English (PDF)

Legal Documents

  • Eintrag im Vereinsregister | NGO Registration Letter (PDF)
  • Freistellungsbescheid | Tax Exemption Approval Letter (PDF)