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Umfrage: Möchten Sie noch einmal 20 sein? Frauen aus Ost und West geben Auskunft zu ihrer Befindlichkeit (Survey: Would You Like to be 20 Again? Women from East and West on their Emotional State)
Communicational details
Address:
Nationales Netzwerk älterer Frauen e.V.
Herrmann-Meyer-Straße 38
04207 Leipzig
Germany
Contact persons and their known foreign languages:
Gisela Kurtz, Chairwoman of the National Network of Older Women, a Registered Charity, English, Russian
Telephone: 0049-341-4251420
Telefax: 0049-341-4251420
E-Mail:
Internet:
About the initiative
Status of the initiative: The initiative is an initiative of the "Nationales Netzwerk älterer Frauen e.V." (national network of older women).
The initiative has the dicisive support of the following organisation:
Nationales Netzwerk älterer Frauen e.V.
Address:
Herrmann-Meyer-Straße 38
04207 Leipzig
Germany
Telephone: 0049-341-4251420
Telefax: 0049-341-4251420
E-Mail:
Internet:
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Content and framework conditions of the project work
The initiative was founded in: 1998
The initiative was founded because of the following reasons:

The National Network of Older Women, a registered charity, was asked to give a presentation on "The Emotional State of Older Women in East and West", in preparation for the International Year of Senior Citizens. This request gave rise to the idea for the survey.
The initiative was founded for a limited period of time:

The survey was carried out once.
Target group(s): The interviewees were women from east and west Germany born between 1914 and 1944.
Targets: The goal of the survey was to present opinions currently held by older women in east and west.
Details of the work done by the initiative:

Twenty-one women were asked to answer in writing the following three questions:

1. Would you like to be 20 again?
2. If you were to return to this Earth a second time, what would you do differently?
3. What do you wish for the 3rd millennium?

In the presentation for which this survey was conducted, we were able to communicate only a few of the answers to the audience. Thus all the answers were later published at full length in a brochure.
Although the survey is not particularly scientific, it does throw an interesting light on the emotional state of older women in eastern and western Germany.
Areas of work of the initiative:
Publicity work on the emotional state of older women
Success that the initiative has achieved:

Many of the women to whom we wrote answered with unexpected alacrity. The letters that accompanied their answers manifested a great readiness to answer the questions, as well as a sincere desire to talk about the issues involved. The length of the answers also indicates the high degree of emotional energy invested by the women in dealing with the questions.
Problems that the initiative has been faced during its work:
Participation of the target group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work:

Total participation through the survey and word-for-word publication of their answers.
Co-operation:
Information:

We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by phone, post or e-mail.
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Organisational background of the initiative
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Budget:
Sources of funding:
Funds from the supporting organisation(s)
Publications or information material available on our initiative:

A brochure: "Möchten Sie noch einmal 20 sein?" (Would you like to be 20 again?) may be obtained from the Nationales Netzwerk älterer Frauen e.V. (National Network of Older Women, a Registered Charity) at the above address for DM 4.80 (c. 2.40 Euros).
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2001-04-25