Margret Ellwanger
Founder and CEO
Margret’s commitment to community service traces back to her graduate studies in physics at the Technical University of Munich where along with a team based at IIT Madras she developed windmills in off grid rural India. Since 1997 she has partnered with Cambodian organizations to shape integrated development projects and programs in Cambodia. In 2005 her focus expanded to empower Bedouin women and create peace building projects rooted in education and nature in Israel.
Margret founded forPEACE in 2011 to work side-by-side with locals to build thriving communities in harmony with nature. forPEACE has been present in Ukraine since 2014 helping artisans and small business owner to generate income. With the invasion of Ukraine, forPEACE felt a moral obligation to provide integrated war relief responding to multifaceted needs of frontline communities.