Back to Life e.V. is a non-profit association that is active in development and disaster relief. The association has been promoting the improvement of the living conditions of poor, needy and severely disadvantaged people for 25 years. From 1996 to 2017, a wide variety of projects were supported in India, and since 2009, Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been the focus of the aid measures. Over 65,000 people are now reached through Back to Life’s interventions, including approximately 8700 students who benefit from our school-based support. Under the guiding principle of “helping people to help themselves”, the projects are conceived and implemented by our founder Stella Deetjen and her team in Nepal and Germany. The content of our work in Nepal is based on the concrete needs of the population, the cultural and socio-economic context as well as the statutes of our association, the national development goals and last but not least the international goals for sustainable development, also known as Agenda 2030.