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Henkel Romania supports children in need from the Petrila Day Care Center

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:48 +0000

For eight years, Henkel Romania has been supporting over 170 children aged 3-17 from very poor families from the former mining city Petrila which come every day to the Day Care Center to do their homework, get something to eat, wash themselves, and receive medical treatment and psychological guidance together with their parents. Henkel Romania contributes to the daily expenses of the Center including the medical costs and outgoings for books, clothes, food, etc. Over the last eight years, Henkel has donated around 88,000 euros. Beside the financial support, Henkel provides free of charge products administrated by a team of Henkel employees. Furthermore, employees are encouraged to donate toys, clothes and other gifts to the children from Petrila for Christmas.

Henkel employees support reforest desertified region in Turkey

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:02 +0000

Life is tough in Goemuergen in Turkey’s interior, where hardly anything grows, and surviving is made even more difficult by erosion and floods. But Oemer Sdiguezel, Henkel employee in Duesseldorf (Germany), founded together with friends an aid association in Germany – Hilfswerk Goemuergen e.V. – dedicated to halting the desertification process and reforesting the landscape.

As a first step in this re-greening process, the association members including several Henkel employees assisted by local helpers put 1,000 fence posts in place to fence off an area of 180,000 square meters in autumn 2009 to protect it from the ravenous appetites of the large sheep, cattle and goat herds. In April 2010, they plan to plant several hundred young trees.