Leni Schütze is a professional aid worker sent by the German organization Bread for the World in December 2022. She advises and supports EDEC’s new social service spin-off Habitat for Equality, Achievements, and Development (HEAD) during the spin-off process in various strategic and structural topics.
As a graduated economist, Leni’s job focused on project management and organizational development. After finishing her studies, she joined one of the biggest chocolate companies in Europe and managed national and international projects on the operational and strategic levels. During this time, Leni also spent one year as a volunteer in South Africa to work on socially inclusive urban transformation for the most vulnerable. Afterward, she focused more and more on the organizational development sphere, obtaining the additional qualification of Certified Human Resources Developer and gaining practical experiences while cooperating with big and small-sized companies and public service institutions. From that moment on, supporting organizations to find their unique path and create their own culture while establishing a sustainable, healthy, and flowing structure became her main goal.
In 2021, Leni joined Bread for the World as a Technical Adviser in Papua New Guinea where she supported different local partner organizations in their development. She also re-explored her passion for development aid work and decided to continue in this direction. Today she is pleased to put all her knowledge and experiences into helping the development of HEAD as one of Georgia’s first countrywide multi-service providers.