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Kenia: Education in early childhood

Hanna Philipps — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:16:00 +0000

In 2010 Henkel supports 45 children projects which improve the education and further development of young people. One example is a project in Kenia where a Henkel retiree is engaged in. In one of the country’s poorest regions, a rural area near the city Nakuru, she supports the extension of a preschool. It provides 75 children with education in their early childhood. Henkel’s donation of several thousands of euros is for example used to furnish classrooms.

The Tamaho nursery school project in South Africa

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:58:02 +0000

The “Tamaho” nursery school project was begun about four years ago by Henkel South Africa. Financial support for the project was provided by MIT and through private donations from employees and former members of the Henkel management. The nursery school is located near the Henkel site in southeastern Johannesburg in a residential area inhabited mainly by colored people, a township named “Tamaho”, and is attended by 37 children, who are cared for by trained nursery school teachers. The nursery school facilities are also used in the evening for specific events, such as information sessions on HIV/AIDS for members of the parish.

Benin: From Viersen to Africa

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:56:49 +0000

Henkel retiree Gisela Kolaczinski uses her talent as a well-versed saleswoman for a good cause: She is am member of AWA, the Viersen-West Africa aid organization. Whenever there is a Christmas or flea market in Viersen or its environs, she is there to sell an array of attractive textile goods which the AWA team brings back from a sewing school in West Africa. But she also carries out other voluntary tasks involving finding sponsors in Germany for children in Benin and Togo.

Every year, a delegation from the association travels to West Africa in order to bring donations in kind that have been provided by the various sponsors and to ensure that everything in the sponsored institutions is as it should be.