Mission statement of Charter 22
What we believe in
All people are born free and equal in dignity and human rights
Our blood is red. Our heart pumps same this blood. We are all parts of one body.
Every human being is unique, equally valuable, important
We are all different, nevertheless, we all belong naturally to.
Democracy needs inclusion
Everyone should be able to participate in social life, regardless of their gender, where come from, what believe in, whether live with a disability.
All people should live in dignity, freely and self-determined
This means all people should feel good and enjoy equal opportunities.
Everyone has the right to active and equally participation in social life
This means that no one should be excluded. All people should decide by themselves how they live and work. That is also called: Self-determination. We think it‘s right and important.
Charter 22 supports socially disadvantaged people
with migration background, refugee experience, disability, especially women, children, young people in overcoming social challenges, improving their access to employment and education, active inclusion, participation, socio-economic integration. Disadvantaged people need help. Then they should be helped. That‘s what Charter 22 does. Charter 22 helps disadvantaged people. We help disadvantaged people as they need it, here and now, through our diverse, high-quality, innovative, inclusive, sustainable social services for educating, counselling, interaction, empowerment, and support.
Education in person is a liberator. Education can free anyone from a painful past full of hardships. Education can change person‘s whole life and history.
There is only one thing that seems to be more expensive than education, no education. Knowledge is power. Power is knowledge. The great goal of education indeed is not knowledge, but action.
Every person is an architect of the future.
What is a Mission Statement
A mission statement is a text. All people should be able
to read it. That‘s why our Mission Statement was written in plain language.
Many people can understand a text better in plain language.
We want everyone to know what we do. And why we do it.
Our goals
No person should suffer hardship due to unequally treatment
Perhaps people are in need after all. Then we will tell politicians why people are in need.
This means: we want to take
this need away from people.
Strengthening people‘s ability to help themselves through empowerment
We meet, educate, advise, support, strengthen disadvantaged people.
This means that our help empowers disadvantaged people to help themselves.
Awakening responsibility and promote it
Social cohesion begins with each and every one of us. This means that we all determine how we live together.
What we want
Open society
This means: everyone should accept themselves and others as they are.
Social justice
This means: everyone deserves the same equal opportunities for self-realisation and self- determination.
Sustainable responsibility
This means: taking responsibility towards fellow human beings, but also towards future generations.
Constructive-critical dialogue
This means: we talk to many socially disadvantaged people. These people often need help. Then we say how politics and society can help the people that need to be helped.
We also make our own contribution to the elimination of social inequalities and discrimination.
Building, maintaining and utilising networks
This means: we bring together various stakeholders for collaboration. Insights from our projects and networking enrich specialist discourse and social discussions, support decision-makers in the improvement of legal framework conditions.
We live diversity in everyday life
The team of Charter 22 is inclusive, diverse, international, multicultural, multilingual, interdisciplinary, highly competent.
We employ people from different countries, languages, cultures, religions. Thus, we want to set an example of respect, tolerance, togetherness.
This diversity enriches us and broadens our horizons. For us, diversity is a matter of course, a strength, but not a threat. Society is a mirror of ourselves. The more diverse society is, the more we have the chance to see different facets of ourselves. We respect and value diversity in cultural, social, political, legal and national terms in our workforce, but also in the countries and societies in which we carry out our projects.
We say NO to all form of racism
We treat our fellow human beings with respect saying NO to all forms of racism, whether veiled, institutionalised, structural. The term „race“ disappears from our vocabulary. We not only condemn all forms of racism, but also take active action against racism.
We are anti-racists and do everything in our power to contribute to positive social changes.
The supposed separation of people into different „races“ has caused much suffering all around the world.
Nevertheless, there are no human races.
We promote non-discrimination
The principle of non-discrimination is considered and capitalised in all our non-profit ideas, concepts, projects.
Accessibility in the access to all our offers regarding needs of people with disabilities is an important issue for us.
Our written and verbal communication is as simple as possible. We use plain language.
Our premises, homepage and digital platforms are deliberately designed to be barrier-free.
Vision
Our vision is free, just, fair, inclusive and sustainable world without barriers, stereotypes and prejudices, in which everyone is disposed to realise their own personal potential independently, completely and without any discrimination. In this world all people have the means for full participation in social life and enjoy simply because of their virtue of human being all inalienable and indivisible civic, political, economic, social and cultural rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international and European human rights conventions.
We promote gender equality
The aspect of gender equality is taken into account through our gender-sensitive personnel selection, life-phase orientated work organisation, career demands of women, compatibility-orientated work models.
Gender-specific measures are in focus of all our non-profit concepts and projects.
We promote intentionally women, especially women with migration history, refugee experience or disability.
We are a trustworthy company
We assess all the consequences of our actions in advance.
We evaluate and analyse them afterwards. If necessary – we draw consequences.
Our corporate social responsibility
This means: we bear our own responsibility for the impact of our work on society, climate, and environment. We operate
sustainably in order the company to remain financially healthy but also to maintain wealth for future generations.
We make our valuable contribution to ecological, economic, and social sustainability, justice, social cohesion, peaceful coexistence and development.
We focus on environmental protection
With our internal procedures and processes we endeavour to save energy consumption and reduce CO2 emissions.
Our aim is to minimise the negative effects on climate and environment.
Our administration, communication and public relations are digital.
We use only fair products, environmentally friendly office materials and services of fair regional providers.
We practise sustainable waste management.
We save water.
We travel by train and bus.
And we are constantly striving for improvements.
We use the opportunities of digitalisation for socio-ecological transformation
We actively use new technologies for good, as open source, in plain language.
We develop, test, and implement innovative solutions for digital transfer of knowledge, e-learning, education, and impact.
We offer virtual spaces for open discussions and promote inclusion as participation in digital space through our e-tools for interaction, and empowerment.
We handle grands conscientiously
Charter 22 is in a position to prove that all grands received have been used appropriately.
Our management is proper.
The principles of economic efficiency and economy are our top priority.
We are transparent about what and how we spend the grands on.
Everyone can know that.
We do not tolerate any form of corruption
Charter 22 meets its legal obligations to prevent, detect, and eliminate corrupt practices, and to cooperate to reduce opportunities for corruption.
We require all team at all times to act honestly and with integrity and to safeguard the resources for which they are responsible. Bribery is an everpresent threat to these resources and must be a concern to all team members.
We do not tolerate any form of corruption (including the giving and receiving of bribes) within the company and take the most serious view of any attempt to commit corrupt practices by team members, contractors, partners.
Cases of suspected corruption will be properly investigated and appropriate actions taken, including reporting to the appropriate authorities, disciplinary action, and active pursuit of recovery.
We guarantee data protection
When handling personal data we comply with all standards and benchmarks of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Federal Data Protection Act and respective state data protection laws.
We protect the data of our employees, customers, contractors, and business partners. We keep all data and information confidential and do not pass it on.
We work in a customer-orientated manner
In all our projects, we take into account the labor market policies, socio-economic, personal and family needs of our customers.
We regularly conduct co-operation meetings and work trials to maintain collaboration with our funding public bodies and partners.
We are a reliable social service provider
We fulfil all the requirements of our customers, funding public bodies and cooperation partners in an appropriate, results-oriented, timely, competent, committed, sensitive, diligent and responsible manner.
We are quality-conscious
We work in accordance with the AZAV standards and DIN EN ISO 9001 to ensure the quality of our operational processes that are constantly developing and improving.
We promote the quality awareness of our employees through training and surveys.
We lead purposefully and in partnership
Our management is orientated towards the quality goals of the Teal company.
Every decision-making process follows a transparent, accessible, and digitally designed internal consultation process with a clear structure and based on the
existing competences in the team.
We pay attention to harmonious togetherness
We treat each other openly, honestly, respectfully, and appreciatively.
We see criticism as an opportunity to develop us as personalities and improve our collaboration in the team.
Components of the company‘s value system
Respect, recognition, appreciation, sensitivity, empathy, mutual trust, loyalty, integrity, transparency and openness, communication at eye level are the foundations of our cooperation and components of the company‘s value system.
We as an employer
Fairness, social justice, sustainability, solidarity, empathy, responsibility, transparency, openness, safe, healthy, family and disability friendly workplaces and fair wages characterized Charter 22 as employer.
We make no distinction between men and women
Men and women receive equal pay for their work.
The health and safety of our employees is our top priority
We offer attractive, innovative, safe and healthy workplaces.
We comply with all national standards of occupational health and safety.
Our workplaces are disability friendly
The equipment and furnishings of our workplaces are orientated towards the individual needs of our employees.
We take measures to continuously improvement of the working environment.
We pay fair wages
We are convinced that good work deserves appropriate, fair wages.
For us, respect means that our employees are able to live decently from their work.
We know that only fair wages retain talents, increase quality of work and leads to more security for everyone.
Fairly paid employees are more reliable and motivated, rarely absent, or ill.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every employee has the right to a wage that secures their own and their family‘s livelihood.
We are constantly in open and trusting exchange with employees
Our employees have valuable ideas. They share these ideas with us. Thus, the company continues to develop and succeed.
We involve our employees in decision-making processes
Our employees contribute to topics of inclusion, social justice and sustainability through active participation.
Together, we realise all valuable ideas in a lively and effective way.
We always conduct employee surveys on assessments and perceptions of working conditions in the company.
We analyse their results in designed team dialogues.
We then implement measures needed.
We support our employees
Through good onboarding, professional guidance, economic security, work-life balance, further education and training.
We support our employees in their various everyday tasks
Everyone of us has often to master besides professional tasks many personal and family tasks daily.
We are always there for our employees.
Our employees
Our employees bring a variety of expertise, skills, languages, backgrounds, professional and life experiences. We mainly employ people with own migration background, refugee experience or disability, as we offer peer-to-peer support in all our non-profit projects.
Our employees identify themselves with the social commitment of the company and make their valuable contribution to achieving its sustainable goals.
Our employees are creative, enjoy their tasks, want to make a difference, and take responsibility for their own work.
Our employees know what meaningful work they do, what charitable tasks they have, how to fulfil these tasks.
Our employees speak openly about problems.
Everyone should say when something has been not working well.
Nobody should be afraid or feel offended.
Everyone can learn from mistakes.
Charter 22 wants to continue to take its own responsibility for fellow human beings also in the future.
Who wrote the Mission Statement?
The founder and manager of Charter 22 wrote the text of this Mission Statement. It is communicated to everyone appropriately to ensure their commitment to it. The Mission Statement is also published on the homepage of the company. Charter 22 is responsible for its contents.
