Plea for honorary office: Bernd Stelter donates fee to humans joy registered association.
The artist Bernd Stelter was a guest at the Dorfhaus Alfter-Gielsdorf – with guitar music, humorous looks at life and his new book. Half of the fee for the entertaining evening went to the Bornheim Civic Foundation and half to our association. A great gesture for which we thank you very much!
“A step towards trust” – Menschenfreude e.V. brings electricity and light to Romanian slums
At the end of May 2023, a team from Menschenfreude e.V. loads a van for the two Romanian slums visited the previous fall: Patarat, a slum on the outskirts of the big city of Cluj, and Tinca, an already more developed neighborhood near Oradea in the west of the country. On board: solar panels plus technical equipment for installation and a ride-on lawn mower.
Two drinking water filter systems donated by Tui Care Foundation for Senegal projects
The Tui Care Foundation has donated two drinking water filter systems to our association Menschenfreude e.V.. We thank you very much ! The two turbines will be installed in Senegal in the next few weeks. At a school as well as a university in Malicounda.
Aid for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria
For the earthquake victims at the Turkish-Syrian border there have been several relief actions of Menschenfreude e.V.. These included school campaigns by the Amos Comenius High School in Bonn, the Maximilian Kolbe High School in Cologne and various cooperation partners. The money raised was used to buy food and tents. Currently, we support regular summer camps for traumatized children and continue to provide food for those affected.
Rwanda Project: “The First Harvest” (May 2023)
Our Menschenfreude team was in Rwanda for the first time in January 2023. The projects initiated there have made great progress, about which we would like to inform you today. The coordinating staff in the field, Aimable and Rosina, work diligently to coordinate the various charity efforts in Kigali, Rwanda.
October 2023: International team of dentists provides voluntary care for patients in Madagascar
Our international team of dentists, assistants and helpers will travel to Madagascar in October 2023 for Menschenfreude e.V. to provide dental care to hundreds of patients in several villages. For the mission, we created fundraisers to collect donations of money and materials. For example, as part of the official Dental Health Day (25.9.) and other occasions.
Ukraine Tour April 22-27, 2023 – Medical Items & Donated School Bus
“As described earlier, the requirements for the Ukraine are constantly changing. Since we last time came to Ukraine in February 2023, 2 months are gone again, more than ever the hospitals close to the front line are overfilled with wounded patients which need to be treated in an emergency setting.”
Waste management and recycling – Menschenfreude e.V. and Hündgen Entsorgung cooperate in Senegal
Throwing garbage into trash cans, which are then picked up by the garbage collection service and the garbage is processed further – a matter of course in Germany, a distant goal in Senegal.
Help us to finance the minibus for Ukrainian schools
For schools in Western Ukraine, which we visited during our aid transports, we would like to finance a new school bus. For the used Ford Transit we need 10.000€. We have already reached the halfway point. Please help us reach the target amount so that we can bring the bus to the country in mid-April. More information is available here from Ukraine project coordinator Matthias Straub.
“We entrusted our lives to you back then.” – One year after the first aid transport
A year ago, the photo was taken in front of the hotel in Poland. On this day, we had taken a total of 37 refugees from the camps on the Polish-Ukrainian border on the journey to Germany. Not all of them are in the memorable photo, but many of them are. And we have regular contact with most of them. How are families doing today?