sentences:  Currently (2015) SONNE-International operates or supports 68 schools and four student hostels or day care centres where approximately 7,000 students receive an education.Altogether, approximately 35,000 people benefit from the SONNE projects each year.In 2002 Erfried Malle and Dr. Susanne Prügger put their vision of helping destitute people in the slums of Bangladesh into practice by founding the development organisation SONNE-International in Vienna.