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Henkel day at Düsseldorf horse race

Sandra Lorch — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:26:53 +0000

On August 1st, Henkel Smile was present at the Henkel day at the horse race track in Düsseldorf. We had organized a big donation activity: 3 charitable projects in Düsseldorf were selected and every visitor of the horse race had the opportunity to vote for one out of these projects. For every vote, Henkel donated 1 euro to the charitable project. After the event, the Henkel Smile team decided to even double the amounts so that finally 5,250 Euro were donated.

AKKI, an organisation that offers activities dealing with culture and art for children in Düsseldorf, received 2,000 Euro.
Förderverein Dorotheenheim received 1,750 Euro for its therapeutic riding project for children and disabled persons.
NAJU – Naturschutzjugend Düsseldorf offers work groups where children learn about nature, protection of our environment and realize concrete environmental projects in Düsseldorf, and received a donation of 1,500 Euro.

The picture show the “Henkel Smile” tent during the event on August 1st:

Henkel Smile tent (left to right): Sandra Lorch, Helmut Hirche, Günther Steinert, Hans-Peter Rams, Nadine Hellhammer

Colorful like a rainbow

Hanna Philipps — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:12:23 +0000

Since 15 years the charity association RADUGA supports immigrants from the former USSR by helping them to integrate in their new environment in Germany. Henkel fosters their projects with a donation in kind and additionally with IT equipment. We are a truly international company with employees from 116 nations working together. Therefore the charity work of Raduga fits perfectly to our Corporate Citizenship activities.

“Raduga” is the Russian word for rainbow. And Raduga’s charity projects are as colorful as a rainbow: They offer integrative language courses, special guidance for women, theater projects for youngsters and much more… Really useful projects that Henkel is happy to support!

Happy faces thanks to Persil

Hanna Philipps — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:17:12 +0000

Children are our future – for this reason, Persil has set up the initiative “Projekt Futurino”, which has already made 400 education and development projects possible. As a result, more than 100,000 children have been supported by “Projekt Futurino”. Persil has brought the initiative into being in 2007 on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Ever since – always over a specific time period – consumers are called to apply with their project ideas.

The focus of “Projekt Futurino” is on projects which enable children to learn more about nature and to acquire a better awareness of the environment while at the same time experiencing its fascination.

Have a look at some projects of “Projekt Futurino” (the video is in German):

With the support of Persil, the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Dormagen realizes the project “Solar energy – our chance for the future”: Sixth grade students get to know zero-emission technologies of the future and can apply their knowledge in photovoltaics and H2-Tecnique. The application for this project was submitted by a physics teacher of this school in fall 2009.

The kindergarten St. Franziskus in Wesel is delighted in the explorer room with two laboratory places which were enabled by “Projekt Futurino”. Many generations of future kindergarten children have the possibility to explore and experiment there. The objective is to understand chemical coherences and to gain first basic knowledge– for an overall interest in natural sciences.

Five minutes can save lifes

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:28 +0000

On Sunday, 7th of March, Henkel and the ice hockey team “DEG Metro Stars” from Duesseldorf started their campaign for “DKMS Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei” (German Bone Marrow Donor Center). The aim is to encourage the local ice hockey fans to register themselves as a potential stem cell donor.

Once again, the campaign was very successful: 340 fans got registered and10.483 euros were donated to help patients with leukemia. Henkel and DEG donated one euro for each visitor of the match. More money was collected by Henkel employees and pensioners.

10.000 Euros for daycare centre “Flothfeld“

Hanna Philipps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:20:54 +0000

Thanks to the initiative “Project Futurino” the day care centre “Flothfeld” in Havixbeck in Germany is able to build a playing area with a rope trail. Persil and a popular German family’s magazine donated 10.000 Euros for the day care centre. The project was chosen by the magazine’s readers.

For more information please click

www.persil.de/projekt-futurino

www.familie.de/projekt-futurino

Photo by Marita Strothe-Garus

“Projekt Futurino”– Persil supports children with 150,000 euros

Hanna Philipps — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:04:07 +0000

In Germany Persil continues the initiative “Projekt Futurino” to support children with 150,000 euros. From March to July 2010 consumers are asked to nominate children’s projects with a special focus on nature and environment.

The initiative was launched in 2007 to celebrate Persil’s centenary. Since then 400 projects and more than 100,000 children have been supported.

For more information please click

www.persil.de/projekt-futurino

German Henkel employees make children’s dreams come true

Sandra Lorch — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:20:40 +0000

This year more than 280 Henkel employees in Düsseldorf participated in a special charity campaign for deprived children. The so-called “Christmas tree of wishes“ event is part of the MIT-initiative. For this purpose Christmas trees in Düsseldorf were decorated with 287 cards listing children’s biggest wishes for Christmas. Henkel employees had the opportunity to fulfill these wishes, each worth up to 20 Euro. Within only one hour the cards were plucked from the trees. A few days later Henkel employees provided the desired presents, among them dolls, balls, games or scooters and volunteers took the presents to the children.

In Düsseldorf the event took place for the third time and each year more Henkel employees would like to participate. In addition many Henkel sites in Germany have picked up this idea and arranged their own “Christmas tree of wishes” event.

I would like to thank all Henkel employees for their commitment and wish you all a Merry Christmas.

15,000 euros for social projects in Duesseldorf

Hanna Philipps — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:27:25 +0000

The Henkel Race Day featuring the ‘Preis der Diana’ is one of the most important horse races on the European calendar. This year more than 15,000 visitors came to the event. And for each visitor Henkel donated one euro to a local social project in Duesseldorf, Germany. That means: 15,000 euros for three projects, e.g. a therapeutic ride club for physically handicapped children.

Thanks to all the visitors for their support and interest in Henkel Smile!

Abruzzo Hearthquake

Cecilia de Guarinoni — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:53:39 +0000

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.