After the disastrous earthquake in 2008 Henkel and its employees immediately responded by raising 150,000 euros in emergency aid. But the support did not stop there. In March 2009, 23 Henkel employees from different plants around China journeyed to Hanwang Elementary School in Meanzhu/Sichuan. The earthquake had caused the school buildings to collapse almost instantly, killing 228 students and 19 teachers. In addition to money and in-kind donations for the victims, the employees took active part in the arrangement of school lessons and handed over donations to the children.
Asia Pacific
China: 23 Henkel employees teach earthquake victims
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The Tamaho nursery school project in South Africa
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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.
Africa & Middle East
Benin: From Viersen to Africa
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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.
Western Europe
Five minutes can save lifes
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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.
Western Europe
10.000 Euros for daycare centre “Flothfeld“
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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
