I would like to warmly thank you all people who partecipated in the funds raising in Italy in june in favour of the Abruzzo Hearthquake. 364 italians employees partecipated and we collected 6.000 euro, the Henkel Friendship Initiative e.V. donated 25.000 euro and 6000 euro have been collected from external companies in Germany. I visited l’Aquila in July to scout what we could support with money collected and I have been impressed by the situation. Many people are living within camps which you can see anywhere. Many others are guests of the Goverment within Hotels which are located close to the seaside. Firemen are at work and they are doing structures to save buildings and to make streets and places safe. The center of L’Aquila is completly closed, none can enter and all activities are closed (banks, shops, ….). Within the center no one could restart his/her job because buidlings are not safe. Only few are working at the moment. Restructuring is not yet started. The hearth is still moving and people are quite afraid.  One of the major need is to envolve people in activities. Without a job or concrete activities to run, people get lost and desperate and phsycological deseases dramatically increase. 

Here I met Mrs Lea Contestabile who is running the project which we would like to support. The project of MUBAQ (childrens museum of L’Aquila association) aims to build a center (with a number of very small and little houses) which can offer to childrens the possibility to partecipate to artistic and cultural activities which have the objective to help them to go on and to elaborate what they experienced and their losses. The association is now working within teints and camps. We are waiting the start up of the project to release the money collected.