Legal Form:
Civil Association

Address:
Miskovecka 2, 04011 Kosice

Contact Person:
Milan Sindler
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tel:055/396 46 04

Year of establishment: 1994

Number of volunteers: 50 volunteers

Membership in the Platform: full

Description:
The main objective of SJAS is to work as a organization of friendship between Slovakia and countries from South Africa, especially The Republic of South Africa and member states of SADC- Southern African Development Community.

Activities:
• Development of friendly contacts between Slovakia and SADC, especially in area of culture, education, science, technology, business, entrepreneurship, sport and tourism
• Propagation of states of SADC in Slovakia in different ways, i. e. organize of cultural- social events, exhibitions, seminars etc.
• Propagation of Slovakia in South Africa
• Cooperation between representative bodies of SADC in propagation of information about South Africa in Slovakia
• Cooperation with partnership organizations with similar agenda in Slovakia and abroad

Development and humanitarian cooperation:

Year: 2003
Name of the Project: Humanitarian action in Baobab – against starvation and diseases in Malawi
Projects assigned to increase Slovak public awareness about development cooperation:

Years: 2003-2004
Name of the Project: Week of global education in November 2003, main topic “Conflicts and human security: world we live in, world we want“and second topic ”Water” in cooperation with international year of drinking water
Target Group: kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, students, teachers

Funding:
membership donations