Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (DW)

The member organizations of the Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland include the 24 Land Churches of the Protestant Church in Germany, nine Free Churches with their charitable institutions and around 100 professional associations in very different fields of work and specializations.
These members prepresent around 20.000 independent social institutions of varying size and legal form, which employ over 300.000 full-time and part-time staff. There are also more than 5.000 charitable self-help groups and groups of non-professional carers. The charitable work is also supported by some 18.000 parishes of the Land Churches and Free Churches in which hundreds of thousends of volunteers are active.