North & Latin America

Video from Guatemala

April 30th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps | Leave a Comment | No Comments »
In the mountains of Guatemala at a height of some 2,500 meters above sea level, Henkel employees set to work helping people to refurbish their village homes.In the summer of 2009, 21 Henkel volunteers from six countries met in the small mountain village. There they helped the inhabitants decorate and renovate their rather simple huts into homes worthy of the name, improved and adapted to the climatic conditions prevailing in the region.

Within three days, nine houses had been provided with whitewashed walls, sturdy concrete floors, stable stoves with a proper flue leading through the roof, and water filters for the provision of drinking water. Now, a total of 40 houses have already been improved as a result of the MIT initiative.

Watch out the video from Guatemala (video language: german)…

Africa & Middle East

Kenia: Education in early childhood

March 31st, 2010 by Hanna Philipps | Leave a Comment | No Comments »
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.

 

Central Eastern Europe

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

March 9th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps | Leave a Comment | No Comments »

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.

Central Eastern Europe

Henkel employees support reforest desertified region in Turkey

March 9th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps | 1 Comment | 1 Comment »

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.

Asia Pacific

Thailand: Music therapy for HIV infected orphans

March 9th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps | Leave a Comment | No Comments »

In 2000, Karl Morsbach, formerly Managing Director of Henkel in Thailand, and his wife Tassanee founded the village known as ‘Baan Gerda’. Their mission was to provide a new home for children afflicted with HIV. Today more than 70 children live in the village and those who have lived there from day one are about to begin a new phase in their lives. They have the opportunity to study in the provincial capital of Lopburi or undertake an apprenticeship in one of the state training centers.

Moreover, ‘Baan Gerda’ offers music therapy with great success. The children’s enthusiasm and progress were such that their teacher, the American musician Bruce Gaston, decided to compose an opera for them. When the conductor of Bangkok Opera became aware of the children during a performance he decided to get involved. The première of the opera is scheduled for mid-March 2010.

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