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 in favor of the victims, the employees took active part in the arrangement of school lessons and handed over donations to the children.
Posts Tagged ‘donation’
Asia Pacific
China: 23 Henkel employees teach earthquake victims
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Hanna PhilippsAfrica & Middle East
The Tamaho nursery school project in South Africa
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps
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
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps
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
“Projekt Futurino”– Persil supports children with 150,000 euros
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by Hanna Philipps
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.
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North & Latin America
Henkel helps UNICEF complete child protection kits
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Sandra LorchHenkel North America donated 50,000 bars of Dial soap to UNICEF. The soap was included in child protection kits for the more than 200,000 orphaned children in Haiti. Last week all the products were packed into more than 2,000 kits; each kit with enough supplies for 24 children.
This results in supplies for 50,000 children.
