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.
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.
