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Walter Zeller provided us with machines from a carpentry shop clearance in Kelkheim near Frankfurt am Main as well as a lot of accessories. We were very pleased about this contact in Hesse. The machines are destined for the training … Continue reading →

The flanging machine that came to us from a tool collection of the DGB local organisation in Sehnde was badly damaged. Master craftsman Algermissen and Olli Jüngst carried out professional repairs to ensure that this small but very fine machine … Continue reading →

Horizontal shaping machines, also known as shapers, have been built in Germany since 1905. The ‘Deutsche Maschinen- und Werkzeugfabrik GmbH’ in Glauchau gave rise to the ‘Wotan-Werke AG’ in Leipzig in 1909. Shaping machines were widely used until the 1970s. … Continue reading →

When the chairman of the Eritrean Trade Union Confederation NCEW, Baire Tekeste, visited us last year together with Ambassador Petros Tseggai, he asked us for support: a building for a vocational school had been completed in the port city of … Continue reading →

Around mid-August, we want to load a 40′ container destined for the work of DBO in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. Hubert Dombrowski from Uslar is the initiator of this project, which we are now carrying out for the … Continue reading →

On “Green Day”, the new career orientation day on 12.11.2012, young people will discover professions and courses of study in the environmental sector. Our carpenters and metalworkers will show interested pupils how solar lamps can be made from industrial scrap … Continue reading →

Our garden grounds have been open to the public since the beginning. It can be visited from Monday to Thursday between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. and by appointment. School classes with parents and teachers, trade union groups, seminar participants … Continue reading →

About 1 1/2 years ago, we received a donation of four industrial sewing machines, a buttonhole machine and a machine for sewing on press studs. We had wrapped the machines in stretch film and stored them in the hope that … Continue reading →

We received a large number of old bricks from the demolition of the former MTG Fleige building in Einumer Straße. We found out that these had been produced in the Schlewecke brickworks, which no longer exists today – not in … Continue reading →