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Protecting-children-during-covid-19-outbreak#protection

The great webpage www.end-violence.org  published the following  report. Be blessed, your Christian Pälchen

https://www.end-violence.org/protecting-children-during-covid-19-outbreak#protection

AT HOME

Know who to call for help. Child Helpline International is a worldwide network of 173 helplines across the world. On their website, you can search for the helpline in your country and call to raise child protection issues with national authorities. More helpline numbers can be found on this page, created by the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children.

Create a safety plan by using this interactive safety planning tool from Love is Respect.

Access resources for survivors of domestic abuse through Futures Without Violence‘s resource page, which contains the numbers of helpline, hotlines and other information.

Speak to a crisis counsellor within the US, Canada and the UK. The Crisis Text Line is available to help individuals dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, providing free 24/7 support to those who need it.

If you or a loved one has a disability, use this resource to plan for your individual needs during COVID-19. This platform was created by the Queenslanders with Disabilities Network in collaboration with the University of Sydney and the Queensland Government.

Use technology to communicate with survivors through these tips from the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

Protect children in alternative care settings. The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action has released a new Technical Note to support child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during COVID-19 pandemic, along with one centred on children in detention centres.

ONLINE

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has developed a series of resources and tools to keep children safe online during COVID-19 isolation. Visit their website for online safety kits, tips for caregivers, and more, including a guide for parents across the world. You can also read this article from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, which provides guidance on protecting children from online threats during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Check out this tip sheet for keeping children safe online. This one-pager is part of a collective effort by multiple partners to help parents and children better understand the risks of the digital world and protect themselves.

Want to expand your knowledge of digital literacy? Check out these resources, which were collated and in part, produced, by the Council of Europe. On their website, you can find information about controlling children’s screen time, finding quality digital content for children, and how to spot the signs of online violence.

Download these parent helpsheets from Thinkuknow, which provide information on how to protect primary- and secondary-aged children from online violence.

The FBI’s Safe Online Surfing (SOS) programme teaches students in grades 3 to 8 how to navigate the web safely. It is available in English and Spanish.

Understand your role as a mandatory reporter by using this brief on children’s online safety, which was created by International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children.

Check out the Family Online Safety Institute’s tool for good digital parenting.

Europol has created a resource centre for information, tools and materials for keeping children safe online. Access the resources here.

Make virtual school safer for your children by reading this short information packet from the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children.

HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS

Check out a collection of tools and resources from the Child Protection Resource Menu for COVID-19, which was created by the Child Protection Area of Responsibility. This toolkit includes dozens of resources, documents and evidence to help responders protect children while dealing with the outbreak.

Strengthen your response amidst the outbreak. The COVID-19 Learning Pathway, which was created by Save the Children, aims to enable humanitarians, including local responders, to be best equipped to respond to the global pandemic. This resource will help strengthen online technical capacity strengthening programmes, build online soft skills and remote working capacity strengthening programmes, and more.

Access resources through the Child Protection Hub. The Child Protection Hub for South-East Europe has created a platform to house resources for humanitarian actors working amidst the COVID-19 crisis. View this platform for webinars, guidance, and technical tips to protect children.

Access more resources on protecting children from COVID-19 in humanitarian settings.

FOCUS ON GENDER

Read this report from the Center for Global Development, which explores the way pandemics often result in an increase in violence against women and children. This paper can be used by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to help inform further evidence generation and policy action while situating violence against women and children within the broader need for intersectional gender- and feminist-informed pandemic response.

Identify and mitigate gender-based violence risks within the COVID-19 response by reading this brief, which was produced by the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR). This document is intended to support non-GBV specialist humanitarian actors to identify COVID-19, GBV-specific risks in their sectors, and take actions to mitigate those risks.

Navigate gender-based violence in humanitarian settings amidst the outbreak. The GBV AoR’s Regional Emergency GBV advisor team is leading a six-week webinar, available in both English and French, to provide technical support to practitioners during the COVID-19 outbreak. This webinar series will focus on the impact of the virus on women and girls, with a focus on GBV risks in east and southern Africa. Visit their website for more resources.

Understand the gendered implications of COVID-19 through this brief, which was developed by CARE International.

Learn how COVID-19 has uniquely affected women in Asia through this brief, which was published by GiHA.

Learn about the emerging gender impacts of the virus by reading this article, published by the Lancet, on the ways COVID-19 is affecting men and women differently from a socio-economic standpoint.

OTHER TRAININGS & RESOURCES

Prevent and control COVID-19 in schools.New guidance has been issued to help protect children from COVID-19 and support safe school operations. The guidance provides critical considerations and practical checklists to keep schools safe, and advises national and local authorities on how to adapt and implement emergency plans for educational facilities.

The International Disability Alliance (IDA), an alliance of 14 global and regional organizations of persons with disabilities, has published key recommendations for a disability-inclusive COVID-19 response.

Support children as a faith leader. Arigatou International has published resources for faith leaders to help children, both spiritually and emotionally, through this challenging time. Access them here.

Boost preparedness within the United Nations system. To assist UN country teams in scaling-up preparedness and response to COVID-19, the WHO released a COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to guide responses within countries.

Access real-time training to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. The WHO has released a multitude of training courses to prepare medical professionals and other practitioners to respond to the outbreak.

Access the Coronavirus Tech Handbook, a crowdsourced resource for technologists. This platform, which was created by the London College of Political Technologists, it features everything from tips for remote working to tools for data visualisation and fighting misinformation.

Corona: How to be prepared for a Financial Crisis/Currency reform (Eng./Ger.Versions) Tipps, um sich auf eine Finanzkrise/Währungsreform vorzubereiten

English version:

German version:

Finance Advice Manual For Families

Some of you are concerned about the economic future, Today I would like to give you some tips as a trained banker, in addition you can download my financial course the ICS Finance manual here at fitforfamily free of charge.

It gives you a lot of practical tips when dealing with money and provides the most important financial knowledge with many examples.

So now to my tips to be prepared for a currency reform if necessary. In general, with all the tips I give you today, it should be noted that it takes at least 1-2 years, if not longer, for a currency  reform. Certain phases have to be completed first.

1. Invest heavily in stocks, preferably from the areas of raw materials, food industry, pharmaceuticals, software oligopolists and possibly in the e-gaming industry. Spreads widely in various currency markets such as Swiss, US or European companies. What you should pay attention to here, how to find good stocks, I will briefly cover today.

A few key factors to value a stock:

Price-earnings ratio should be low, Sales development in recent years?, Dividend increases in recent years and regular payment?, Earnings per share, cash reserve?, Book value of the share?, Company patents and how long in the hand of the company?, How wide the company is positioned? Is it a market leader?

Are there products that are always in demand, such as Coca Cola, Water, Food? How innovative is the company? Why did the share price collapse, maybe it wasn’t the fault of the company?

The best thing to do is to regularly expand your portfolio through monthly stock purchases and also take price gains and invest in new opportunities or hold 30 percent cash reserve for very good replacement options, as is now the case in the Corona crisis.

Searches on Google for the abbreviations of the respective aspect such as price-earnings ratio, this would now go too far. Read a lot about a company and monitor your stock companies every few weeks, investing in the long term with the intention of at least 8-10 years.

Checks every few months at the latest whether the company is still good and uses stop loss functions (adjustable at the respective broker, automatic sale at a specific price) in order to counteract very large price drops. In the event of price drops that have nothing to do with the company, stay invested. Generally the money should be “left”, that is why you can sleep well during this time!

With regular savings, the cost average effect comes into play. You benefit from getting more shares in low price phases for e.g., 100 Euros and in higher phases less shares.

On the bottom line, this is positive in the long term for the investor.

The shares increase in value.

Use very good test magazines in your country, to inform yourself  which funds are very good for a long time and inexpensively, so also with broker providers and ETFS.

If this is too demanding, I recommend very well tested funds in these segments or stocks such as Berkshire Hathaway. Which own companies like a railway company, invest in hundreds of companies and act very conservatively, long-term orientated. 

Not as a speculator but as an inverter. Like you! 


2. Try to get rid of your loans and do not accept any for consumer goods in the future. For real estate only if it is a necessary investment or when buying a property with a very high return on equity, long-term financing with a fixed interest rate, special repayment options and in a very good location, with stable population and an environment of e.g. many civil servants, so groups of workers who do not lose their jobs so quickly in a crisis.

Always have a reserve of 10 percent of the purchase price, better 20 percent for unpredictable expenses. Rents should not be too high compared to 10 years ago.

3. 2-3 monthly salaries in cash at home are good.

4. A little gold in 10 gr bars also helps, possibly cigarettes for exchange. But that is a Christian ethical question.

5. Do not keep money in accounts, this is quickly charged with negative interest rates when inflation is high.

6. Use the opportunity of companies like www.Goldmoney.com, where I can get precious metal reserves worldwide at any time and if necessary can also collect the gold myself, but I don’t have to carry it with me, it can also be transferred to foreign accounts.

7. Have food supplies at home for at least 14 days.

8. ETFs are not always the best investment alternatives because they reflect an index like the Dax, but if a company like SAP accounts for 50 percent in the Dax, the ETF also reflects 50 percent SAP and the other 29 companies are much less included, Cluster formation.

9. Foreign currency accounts are helpful.

10. For real estate, make sure that you regularly increase rents when inflation comes, if the state allows it. There is already a rent brake in Germany. Banks can always ask for a new security for a property if the property market should collapse. In the case of a currency reform, there is an extra tax per m2 over decades, which can be 10 percent of the rents (collected in Germany in 1948, spread over 30 years).

 

Finally, a tip for Germany:

For credit contracts before the June 21st 2016

The CJEU (Case C-66/19) has adopted the so-called “cascade reference”. This can be found as part of the cancellation policy in most mortgage loans and motor vehicle loans that were concluded from June 2010. It reads: “The period begins after the contract has been concluded, but only after the borrower has received all the mandatory information pursuant to Section 492 (2) of the German Civil Code (e.g. information on the type of loan, information on the net loan amount, information on the contract term).” A customer can revoke a loan years after it is taken out.

Please, ask your lawyer to proof your contract. After his OK, ask a bank to give you a new credit offer (binding!!, otherwise the bank accepts your request and you can not pay off the remaining debt) than ask your lawyer to get in contact with your bank.

You can save thousands of Euros, what a blessing!!!

Good luck in implementing the tips.

Shalom, your Christian Pälchen


 


In German:

Einige von euch machen sich Gedanken über die wirtschaftliche Zukunft und eine evtl. Währungsreform. Heute möchte ich euch als gelernter Banker hierzu  Tipps geben, darüber hinaus findet ihr meinen Finanzkurs das ICS Finance Manual hier bei fitforfamily kostenlos zum Dowload.

Es gibt euch sehr viele praktische Tipps im Umgang mit Geld und vermittelt das wichtigste Finanzwissen mit vielen Beispielen. So, nun zu meinen Tipps, um auch für eine Währungsreform ggf. vorbereitet zu sein. Generell ist bei allem was ich euch heute an Tipps gebe zu beachten, dass es bis zu einer Wärungsreform mindestens 1-2 Jahre dauert, wenn nicht länger. Bestimmte Phasen müssen erst durchlaufen werden.

1. Investiert breit in Aktien, am Besten aus den Bereichen der Rohstoffe, Nahrungsmittelindustrie, Pharmazie, Software Oligopolisten und evtl. in die E-Gaming Industrie. Investiert breit gestreut in verschiedenen Währungensmärkten wie der Schweiz, USA oder europäische Unternehmen. Worauf hier zu achten ist, wie man gute Aktien findet werde ich heute kurz behandeln.

Ein paar Key Faktoren um eine Aktie zu bewerten:

Das Kurs Gewinn-Verhältnis sollte niedrig sein, Umsatzentwicklung in den letzten Jahren, Dividendenerhöhungen in den letzten Jahren und regelmässige Zahlung dieser, Gewinn pro Aktie, Bargeldreserve des Unternehmens, Buchwert der Aktie, Patente des Unternehmens und wie lange in der Hand des Unternehmens?, Wie breit ist das Unternehmen aufgestellt?, Ist es ein Marktführer?

Sind es Produkte die immer nachgefragt werden, wie z.B. Coca Cola, Wasser , Lebensmittel allgemein? Wie innovativ ist das Unternehmen?, Warum ist der Aktienkurs gerade eingebrochen, lag es evtl. nicht am Unternehmen?

Am Besten man baut regelmässig durch monatliche Aktienkäufe sein Depot aus und nimmt auch Kursgewinne mit und reinvestiert in neue Chancen bzw. hält 30 Prozent Cashreserve für sehr gute Nachkaufoptionen bereit, wie jetzt in der Corona Krise.

Sucht über Google nach den Abkürzungen der jeweiligen Aspekte wie Kurs-Gewinnverhältnis, dies würde jetzt zu weit führen.

Lest viel über ein Unternehmen und beobachtet alle paar Wochen eure Akienunternehmen, investiert mit der Absicht langfristig die Aktie, sprich 8-10 Jahre mindestens zu halten.

Überprüft aber alle paar Monate spätestens, ob das Unternehmen noch gut ist und nutzt Stop loss Funktionen (Einstellbar beim jeweiligen Broker, automatischer Verkauf bei einem bestimmten Kurs), um sehr große Kursrückgänge entgegenzuwirken, bei Kurseinbrüchen, die nichts mit dem Unternehmen zu tun haben, wie gerade jetzt: am Besten investiert bleiben.  Generell sollte das Geld “übrig” sein, sprich, dass man auch in dieser Zeit ruhig schläft!

 

Beim regelmässigen Sparen kommt der Cost Average Effekt zur Geltung. Man profitiert davon in niedrigen Kursphasen  mehr Aktien für z.B., 100 Euro und in höheren Phasen weniger Aktie zu erhalten, unterm Strich ist dies  langfristig  positiv für den Investor, da die günstigeren Phasen über Jahre  die Oberhand haben. Der Aktienindex steigt im Wert.

Nutzt sehr gute Testmagazine in eurem Land, welche Fonds sind sehr gut über eine lange Zeit und kostengünstig, so auch bei Broker Anbietern und ETFS.

Wem dies zu anspruchsvoll ist, dem empfehle ich sehr gut geteste Fonds in  diesen Segmenten oder Aktien wie Berkshire Hathaway. Welches selber Unternehmen wie eine Eisenbahngesellschaft besitzen, in hunderten Firma inverstiert sind und sehr konservativ handeln, langfristig.

Eben nicht als Spekulant, sondern als Investor! Wie du und ich!

2. Versucht eure Kredite los zu werden und nimmt in Zukunft keine für Konsumgüter auf. Für Immobilien nur wenn es sich um eine notwendige Investition handelt oder beim Erwerb einer Immobilie mit einer sehr hohen Eigenkapitalrendite, langfristiger Finanzierung mit festem Zinssatz, Sondertilgungsmöglichkeiten und in sehr guter Lage liegend, mit stabilen Einwohnerzahlen und einem Umfeld von z.B. vielen Staatsbediensteten, sprich Arbeitnehmergruppen die in einer Krise nicht so schnell die Arbeit verlieren.

Habt hierbei immer eine Mindestreserve von 10 Prozent des Kaufpreises, besser 20 Prozent für unvorhersehbare Ausgaben. Die Mieten sollten auch im Verhältnis zu vor 10 Jahre nicht zu hoch sein.

3. 2-3 Monatsgehälter in Cash zu Hause sind gut.

4. Etwas Gold in 10 gr Barren hilft ebenfalls, dazu evtl. Zigaretten zum Tausch. Das ist aber eine christliche, ethische Frage.

5. Haltet kein Geld auf Konten, dies wird bei hoher Inflation schnell mit Minuszinsen belegt.

6. Nutzt die Möglichkeit von Firmen wie www.Goldmoney.com, wo ich jederzeit an Edelmetallresreven weltweit ran kann und ggf. das Gold auch selber abholen kann, ich muss es aber nicht mit mir rumtragen, es kann auch auf ausländische Konten überwiesen werden (Der verkaufte Gegenwert).

7. Habt Essensvorräte für mind. 14 Tage zu Hause.

8. ETFs sind nicht immer die besten Anlagealternativen, da sie einen Index wie den Dax wiederspiegeln, aber wenn eine Fima wie SAP theoretisch 50 Prozent im Dax ausmacht, so spiegelt der ETF auch 50 Prozent SAP wieder und die anderen 29 Firmen kommen viel weniger vor, Clusterbildung.

9. Fremdwährungskonten sind hilfreich.

10. Achtet bei Immobilien darauf, dass ihr regelmässig bei einer Inflation die Mieten erhöht, sofern der Staat dies zu lässt. In Deutschland gibt es schon eine Mietpreisbremse. Die Banken können bei einer Immobilie immer eine Nachsicherung verlangen, wenn der Immobilienmarkt einbrechen sollte. Bei einer Währungsreform gibt es über Jahrzehnte verteilt pro m2 eine extra Steuer, dies können mal 10 Prozent der Mieten sein.(In Deutschland 1948 erhoben, über 30 Jahre verteilt).

 

Zum Schluss noch ein Tipp für Deutschland: Für Kreditverträge die vor dem 21.06.2016 abgeschlossen wurden

Der EuGH (Rechtssache C-66/19) hat sich den sogenannten „Kaskadenverweis“ vorgenommen. Dieser findet sich als Teil der Widerrufsbelehrung in den meisten Baufinanzierungen und Kfz-Krediten, die ab Juni 2010 abgeschlossen worden sind. Er lautet: „Die Frist beginnt nach Abschluss des Vertrags, aber erst, nachdem der Darlehensnehmer alle Pflichtangaben nach § 492 Absatz 2 BGB (z.B. Angabe zur Art des Darlehens, Angabe zum Nettodarlehensbetrag, Angabe zur Vertragslaufzeit) erhalten hat.“

Ein Kunde kann Darlehen Jahre nach Abschluss noch widerrufen.

Das sind  evtl. 10 Tausende Euro Zinsvorteile! Was für ein Geschenk!

Lasst euren Vertrag vom Anwalt überprüfen, wenn dieser das OK gibt, holt ein verbindliches !! Kreditangebot ein (sonst geht die Bank darauf ein und ihr könnt nicht die Restschuld begleichen) und danach wendet euch über den Anwalt an eure Bank!

 

Viel Erfolg bei der Umsetzung der Tipps, Schalom!

Euer Christian Pälchen



 


	

Happy Easter! Our Easter Topic: No Fake – Be yourself – A Christian

Today I like to speak to you about being not a Fake – being a Christian!

 

In all, our purpose in life is to do everything to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).

and Matthew 6,33 says:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

In our time we don’t have many Christians who live that way. But we have to! Our Lord warns us:

19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [a]dead? James 2, 19-20

The Heavens declare the glory of God and we should too!

Let us talk this Corona Easter to our friends, neighbours, family members to the people who we meet during our walk about Jesus Christ, that is our greatest gift to give!

It is our job to share this treasure with others!

Shalom and a blessed Easter. Your Christian Pälchen

 

During a pandemic, Isaac Newton had to work from home, too. He used the time wisely.

During the Great Plague of London Isaac Newton had to spent one year at his parents  home. Cambridge University was closed.

Without his professors to guide him, Newton apparently thrived. The year-plus he spent away was later referred to as his annus mirabilis, the “year of wonders.”

 His assistant, John Conduitt explained what happened:

“ … Whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the same power of gravity (which made an apple fall from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but must extend much farther than was usually thought. ‘Why not as high as the Moon?’ said he to himself..”

In London, a quarter of the population would die of plague from 1665 to 1666. It was one of the last major outbreaks in the 400 years that the Black Death ravaged Europe.

Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667, theories in hand. Within six months, he was made a fellow; two years later, a professor.

So if you’re working or studying from home over the next few weeks, perhaps remember the example Newton set. Having time to muse and experiment in unstructured comfort proved life.

That is also a biblical view of life. In Ephesians 5, 15-17 can we read:

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

So let us read the bible, pray and listen what God shows us. Sometimes is a crises the start of a beautiful new journey, also as a family!

Beside that I am praying that you and I are ambassadors of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us talk to our environment about heaven and hell and what it means to be a biblical Christian.

P.s If you think about founding a Christian school, please take a look at  www.ics-christian-school-founding.org.

You will find almost everything to found a Christian school and great resources for your kids.  All for free!

Shalom, your Christian Pälchen

Welcome to the new fitforfamily mp3 blog: Corona: Some tipps to survive a Corona exit spere better

Welcome to the new fitforfamily mp3 blog

Today you will get some tips on how you as a family can survive a Corona exit spere better.

There is an opportunity in every crisis.

At the beginning, a few everyday tips about Hygene:

– Disinfect the door handles regularly with alcohol – Wash your hands regularly, normal soap is enough.

– Frequently ventilates the rooms, ventilating for 5 minutes (all windows open) is sufficient.

– Use your dishes only once

Other tips to stay physically fit:

Drink a lot and do gymnastic exercises, if possible move around the house have regular meals, if a family member is ill, keep your distance.

So now a few tips on everyday structure:

Pray together at the beginning and end of the day, for each other and for others.

Have fixed stand-up times, homeschooling times, chores etc. A fixed structure helps.

However, there are of course exceptions.

Call your loved ones, skyped (also as home groups) or emailed, create a podcast for your beloved.

Eat good food that tastes good for everyone, sweets also helps. just leave all 5 straight, change time as positive time, as couples enjoy each other in every form … smile

A hug, a smile speaks more than 1000 words!

Play community games together, use motion games with the Wii, read to one another, watch good films, documentaries.

A great Christian resource is the www.hopeproject.com for the daily bible reading combined with a video clip.

At this page you will find great game ideas: https://playtivities.com/20-family-game-night-ideas/

I wish all of you Shalom!

Be blessed, your Christian Pälchen

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