Preamble

Our world becomes ever poorer!
Long-proven ones in millenium long zeitgeschehen acquired achievements and customs are lost always. The knowledge of the peoples living of the chase, fish and collecting? their knowledge about nature to live over animals and plants, their ability with and in nature? past will become. The art and the meaning of the pictures created on rock to live a building with natural building materials and therein the treasure of narrations, of music and dances, like also the knowledge of?unerklaerlichen connections?, if it applies to receive, so that also a direct connection to our ancestors, to humans, who live still similarly the stone time culture, remains ensured.

We modern humans are not right to destroy culture and way of life of the so-called indigenen peoples. And our descendants are a right on the fact that this special world cultural heritage remains.

The promotion association has the purpose to make a contribution to the fact that the indigenen peoples, i.e., the peoples, who excluding or almost exclusively on the chase, fish and collecting to live to ensure their life as freely as possible from external influences and in greatest possible independence to lead with the goal that they retain their traditional culture, therein to live and to future generations receive. The kind of their lebensfuehrung is to be the peoples concerned released, although they should be kept away from incentives to the change of their life-style, also, in order to let no exaggerated expectation attitude develop.

This can once taken place by means of land purchase, so that the people concerned has own reason and soil, whereby this is to be protected then however against accesses third, for example also against sales. Possibly bringing into donations is offered.

If a land purchase cannot be managed, is with the responsible governments to be negotiated that indigenen peoples or the indigenen people concerned a surface is entitled, them made possible, their life as freely as possible from external influences and in greatest possible independence to lead with the goal that they retain their traditional culture, therein to live and future generations received.

By these measures is ensured to be that the knowledge of the indigenen peoples over plants and their effect remains to live over animals and their behavior as well as their knowledge of nature and their ability, therein to be able to take over without destroying these for our future generations, also in order knowledge for our current life.

This is ahead-sent for the promotion association the following statute festgestellt: 

§ 1

Name, seat, financial year

(1)     the association bears the name project bushmen. He is to be registered into the register of associations.

(2)     the association has its seat in Frankfurt/Main.

(3)     the financial year of the association is the calendar year.

§ 2

Purpose, tasks, non-profit character

(1)     purpose of the association is development assistance in the form of the existence assistance for bushmen and their culture, in particular in Namibia and in the southern Africa.

(2)     the association pursued exclusive and directly non-profit purposes in the sense of the section?Steuerbeguenstigte purposes? the tax code. The statute purpose is carried out in particular by acquisition by landed property in the life areas of the bushmen, which is to be held by a donation (or similar organizations) and to which the bushmen as habitat at the disposal is to be put. During the mechanism and monitoring of the donation the nearest German diplomatic or consular mechanism is to be asked for assistance. Besides generally the economic and social development of the bushmen is to be promoted, in particular regarding the training system, the health care and environmental protection.

(3)     the association is selbstlos active; he does not pursue primarily self-economical purposes.

(4)     means of the association may be used only for the statutory purposes. The members do not receive allowances from the means of the association. It may not do a person by expenditures, which are strange to the purpose of the association or are favoured by disproportionately high remuneration.

(5)     in the case of dissolution or abolition of the association or with omission of its past purpose falls the fortune of the association to Ethiopia assistance of Karl Heinz the Boehm?Menschen for humans?, hilfsweise to the Department for Economic Aid to Developing Count of the federation, where it is to be used directly and exclusive for non-profit purposes.

§ 3

Acquisition of the membership

(1)     member of the association can become each natural person, those 15. Lebensjahr completed.

(2)     on suggestion of the executive committee can appoint the meeting of the members of honour members on lifetime.

(3)   a condition for the acquisition of the membership is a written application for membership, which is to be addressed to the executive committee. With competent ones, in particular persons under age, is the request limits also from the legal representative to to be signed. This commits itself thereby to the payment of membership dues for limits competent ones.

(4)     the executive committee decides on the application for membership after free discretion. In the case of refusal of the request it is not obligated to communicate to the applicant the reasons.

§ 4

Completion of the membership

(1)     the membership ends by death, exclusion, cancellation of the membership list or withdrawal from the association.

(2)     the withdrawal takes place via written explanation opposite the executive committee. With competent ones, in particular persons under age, is the withdrawal explanation limits also from the legal representative to to be signed. The withdrawal can be explained only as the end of one financial year, whereby a term of notice of two months is to be kept.

(3)     a member can be painted by resolution of the executive committee by the membership list, if it is despite twice written reminder with the payment of membership dues or of reallocations in the arrears. The cancellation may be decided only if after the sending off of the second reminder two months applied and in this reminder the cancellation were threatened. The resolution of the executive committee over the cancellation is to be communicated to the member.

(4)     if a member imprisonment for debt in rough way the interests of the association hurt, can be excluded it by resolution of the executive committee from the association. Before the adoption of resolutions the executive committee opportunity must give the member to the verbal or written statement. The resolution of the executive committee is to be justified in writing and sent to the member. Against the resolution the member can insert appointment to the meeting of the members. The appointment is to be inserted within a monthly after entrance of the resolution at the executive committee. The executive committee has to call up a meeting of the members, which decides finally on the exclusion within a monthly after fristgemaesser inserting the appointment.

§ 5

Membership dues

(1)     it are raised from the members of annuities. For the financing of special projects or for the removal of financial difficulties of the association reallocations can be raised.

(2)     height and maturity of annuities and reallocations are determined by the meeting of the members.

(3)   of honour members are released from the obligation to the payment from contributions and reallocations.

(4)     the executive committee can issue or grant fees, contributions and reallocations in suitable cases totally or partly.

§ 6

Organs of the association

Organs of the association are the executive committee, the Kuratorium and the meeting of the members.

§ 7

Executive committee

(1)     the executive committee of the association consists of up to six members,

          the chairman,

          the deputy chairman,

          the treasurer,

          an assigned one for the bushmen,

          two further assessors.

(2)     the activity of an assigned one can be taken over also by the chairman and/or its deputy.

(3)     the association is to have at least in each case four members of the board.

(4)     the executive committee of the association in the sense of § 26 BGB consists of the chairman, the deputy chairman and the treasurer.

(5)     the association will represent together in each case by the chairman and the deputy chairman or by the chairman and the treasurer.

§ 8

Competence of the executive committee

The executive committee is not responsibly for all affairs of the association so far it by statute or law of the meeting of the members of the association is transferred. It has in particular the following tasks:

          a)     preparation and summoning of the meeting of the members as well as list of the agenda;

          b)     execution of resolutions of the meeting of the members;

          c)     preparation of the budget, record keeping, production of the annual report;

          d)     adoption of resolutions over the admission of members.

§ 9

Choice and term of office of the executive committee

(1)     the executive committee is selected by the meeting of the members for the duration of three years, counted from the choice. It remains however up to the new election of the executive committee in the office each member of the board is individually to be selected. To members of the board only members of the association can be selected. With the completion also the office of a member of the board ends to the membership in the association.

(2)     separates a member of the executive committee prematurely, then the executive committee for the remaining term of office of the separating can select a successor.

§ 10

Meetings and resolutions of the executive committee

(1)     the executive committee decides in meetings, which of the chairman, with whose prevention of the deputy chairman, will call up; the agenda does not need to be announced. A einberufungsfrist of one week is to be kept.

(2)     the executive committee is resolutionable, if the majority of its members are present. During the adoption of resolutions the majority of the delivered valid voices decides; with equality of votes the voice of the chairman decides, with its absence those of the deputy chairman.

(3)     the executive committee can decide in the written procedure, if all members of the board the the subject of the adoption of resolutions agree.

§ 11

Kuratorium

(1) the association receives a Kuratorium. The Kuratorium consists of up to six members, that are selected by the meeting of the members. Persons are to be selected in the Kuratorium, which proved by their personal and/or vocational life achievement that they positively face the association purpose.

(2) the choice of the Kuratoriumsmitglieder takes place in the long run from four years. Re-election is permissible. The Kuratoriumsmitglieder remains, if they do not separate for other reasons, despite in principle the temporal delimitation in the office, until for her a successor was selected.

(3) the Kuratorium has the task to advise the executive committee and the association? in the context of its possibilities? to promote in each relationship.

§ 12

Meeting of the members

(1) in the meeting of the members has each member of age a voice. For the practice of the right to vote another member, in writing however no member of the board can be authorized. The agency is to be given for each meeting of the members separately; a member may not represent however any more than three strange being correct.

(2) the meeting of the members is responsible for the following affairs:

a) permission of the budget set up by the executive committee for the next financial year; Receipt of the annual report of the executive committee; Discharge of the executive committee;

b) appointment of membership dues;

c) choice and recall of the members of the executive committee;

d) adoption of resolutions over change of the statute and over the dissolution of the association;

e) appointment of honour members.

§ 13

Summoning of the meeting of the members

(1) at least once in the year, if possible in the first quarter, is to take place the statutory meeting of the members. It will call up in writing from the executive committee under adherence to one period of two weeks under indication of the agenda. The period begins with the day following on the sending off of the invitation letter. The invitation letter is considered to the member as happened, if it is addressed to the last address communicated by the member the association in writing. The agenda determines the executive committee.

(2) each member can request an addition of the agenda in writing until at the latest one week before a meeting of the members at the executive committee. The versammlungsleiter has to communicate the addition at the beginning of the meeting of the members. Over requests for addition of the agenda, which are placed in meetings of the members, the meeting decides.

§ 14

Extraordinary meeting of the members

An extraordinary meeting of the members is to be called up by the executive committee, if the interest of the association it required or if a tenth of the members requests this in writing under indication of the purpose and the reasons.

§ 15

Adoption of resolutions of the meeting of the members

(1) the meeting of the members is led by the chairman, with its prevention by the deputy chairman or the treasurer. If no member of the board is present, the meeting determines the versammlungsleiter. With elections the meeting line can be transferred for the duration of the ballot or the preceding discussion an election commitee.

(2) the kind of the tuning determines the versammlungsleiter. The tuning must be accomplished in writing, if a third of the published voters of members requests this.

(3) the meeting of the members is resolutionable, if at least one quarter of all club members is present. With quorum the executive committee is obligated to call up within four weeks a second meeting of the members with the same agenda; this is resolutionable without consideration for the number of the published members. On that is to be referred to in the invitation.

(4) the meeting of the members seizes resolutions generally with simple majority of the delivered valid voices; Abstentions are considered as invalid voices. For the change of the statute however a majority is of three quarters delivered of the valid voices, for the dissolution of the association such from nine tenths necessary. A change of the purpose of the association can be decided only with agreement of all members. The written agreement of the members published in the meeting of the members can be explained only within a monthly opposite the executive committee.

(5) with elections is selected, who received more than half of the delivered valid voices. If nobody received to more than half of the delivered valid voices, then a ballot takes place between the two candidates, who received most voices. Selected is then that, which received most voices. With same number of votes the lot which can be drawn from the versammlungsleiter to decides.

(6) over resolutions of the meeting of the members is to be taken up minutes, which are to be signed from the respective secretary to.

§ 16

Dissolution of the association

(1) the dissolution of the association can be decided only in a meeting of the members with a majority of the valid voices delivered by nine tenths (§ 15 exp. 4).

(2) of case the meeting of the members nothing different one decides, is the chairman and the deputy chairman liquidators together entitled to act as substitute.

(3) after completion of the liquidation existing fortunes falls to the Ethiopia assistance Karl Heinz Boehm?Menschen for humans? (hilfsweise to the Department for Economic Aid to Developing Count of the federation).

(4) the managing regulations apply accordingly, if the association for another reason is dissolved or its legal capacity loses.