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Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe is the humanitarian relief agency of the Protestant regional and free churches in Germany, founded in 1954 and based in Berlin. It works with local and national partner organizations in around forty countries, responding to wars, displacement, droughts, earthquakes, storms, floods and epidemics.
The agency is part of the Evangelisches Werk fur Diakonie und Entwicklung, sharing its umbrella with the development agency Brot fur die Welt and the domestic social welfare organization Diakonie Deutschland. It is also a member of the worldwide church humanitarian network ACT Alliance, placing its work within a global network of church-affiliated relief agencies rather than operating alone.
Seven decades after its founding, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe continues that mission today, active wherever the Protestant churches in Germany direct emergency relief, from acute disaster response to the longer recovery work that follows it, still organized under the same Evangelisches Werk umbrella it has held since its founding. Its own annual report each year states that its figures are drawn from the audited statements of its parent legal entities rather than from a standalone audit of the relief agency itself, a distinction the agency states plainly rather than leaving implicit.