one world foundation is a non-profit aid organisation in Sri Lanka, which operates a school for more than 1,100 children, adolescents and adults. The project is financed with the proceeds from a guest house and from donations. The foundation is a social enterprise which aims to contribute to Sri Lankan society via its educational provision and as an employer providing social benefits and fair working conditions for its employees. The private social project was founded in 1995 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner. The foundation also operates a residence programme for artists and writers.

Maja Haderlap is a bilingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer, best known for her multiple-award-winning novel, Angel of Oblivion, about the Slovene ethnic minority's transgenerational trauma of being treated as 'homeland traitors' by the German-speaking Austrian neighbors, because they were the only ever-existing military resistance against National Socialism in Austria.