Auch dieses Jahr möchten wir wieder einigen gemeinnützigen Organisationen an unseren deutschen Bürostandorten eine Spende zukommen lassen.

Wie bereits in den letzten Jahren gehen unsere Weihnachtsgeschenke in Form von Spenden an Organisationen, deren ebenso großartige, wie wichtige Arbeit uns sehr am Herzen liegt und die wir mit unserem Beitrag ein klein wenig unterstützten möchten.

Freiburg Community Foundation - Project „HERZENSENERGIE” (Heart Energy)

Through its campaign “Herzensenergie”, the Freiburg community foundation collects money for projects in the fields of social cohesion, energy and sustainability. The foundation provides active and fast support to people in need and seeks to promote energy saving in the long term.

The money is spent on the following projects:

• Winter bus of the German Red Cross in Freiburg to supply homeless people with sleeping bags, food and toiletries
• Association Shelter for Women (Obdach für Frauen, OFF) helping women in need find a place to live
• Electricity saving check for low-income households identifying expensive energy guzzlers and helping acquire household appliances, which consume less energy.

Münchner Tafel e.V. - Munich Food Bank

Every week, the Munich food bank salvages more than 130,000 kg of food that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to over 23,000 people in need. More than 800 volunteers collect food at over 800 collection points and distribute it via the 28 food banks in the city. The association is funded solely through membership fees and donations that benefit the people in need directly.

German Childhood Cancer Foundation - Team Rynkeby RheinRuhr

Today, six out of seven children survive cancer. However, continuous intensive and long-term research is required to achieve further breakthroughs in cancer therapy. This also includes the prevention of long-term effects that 50% of the surviving children are confronted with for the rest of their lives. Fighting cancer is a serious challenge for the entire family. Rehabilitation clinics such as the SyltKlinik attend to the children and their relatives.

Team Rynkeby RheinRuhr is part of one of the world’s largest bike charity campaigns, supporting the German Childhood Cancer Foundation through sponsors and donors. All money collected is used to support the foundation’s work in advancing children’s cancer research and providing successful treatment of numerous children in accordance with the latest scientific findings.

Children's Hospice Sternenbrücke in Hamburg

Since 2003, the children’s hospice helps children, adolescents and since the opening of the youth hospice in 2010 also young adults up to the age of 27, who suffer from a terminal disease, to pursue a dignified path to their death together with their families. During the often long years of illness, the families can visit the hospice for at least 28 days a year to draw strength for the difficult times to come and to find some relaxation.

Children's Hospice Bärenherz Leipzig e.V.

The children's hospice helps parents of terminally ill children and young people. Expectant parents hope that their babies will be healthy. But what if this hope is not fulfilled and the child is born with a severe illness? What if an incurable disease is diagnosed at some point in childhood? Those families have to face a radical change in their life and often, any dreams for a happy future are shattered overnight. The children's hospice Bärenherz Leipzig e.V. offers help. In an in-patient hospice, terminally ill children are cared for. This hospice is currently the only in-patient children's hospice in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.