On March 13, 2017, we were presented with the family seal during a ceremony in the town hall. Our company is barrier-free and offers flexible working hours for single parents. We were delighted to receive this award and consider ourselves to be in good company with the many others who have been honored. We attach a photo from the press office of the city of Hildesheim.
On February 28, the “Soziale Stadt Stadtfeld” funding program was presented to the public by the head of the building department, Mr. Brummer, and the head of the social department, Mr. Spitzer.
We were very pleased that this event took place in our factory building. We have been active in Stadtfeld since December 1999 – it all started with the preparation of a piece of land leased from the city of Hildesheim for the construction of our workshop. Apart from undergrowth and various trees, there was nothing here at first.
The poor infrastructural condition of the area and the fact that the residents were left to their own resources caused us concern and discomfort right from the start – and children used our site as an adventure playground. The resulting conflicts have not yet been resolved, as damage is also caused by vandalism, which costs us dearly time and again.
We hope that infrastructure and structural improvements as well as the possibility of being able to finance smaller offers for the people in the neighborhood will provide positive and sustainable impulses. The program is set to run for several years.
For the association Lernen-Helfen-Leben, we packed a wide range of accessories for a photovoltaic system that will supply electricity to an LHL project (construction of a SEK-1 school) in the town of Benoye in Chad.
The accessories had a load weight of over 7 tons, including 20 batteries weighing 68 kg each. We managed to stow everything according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
On December 13, 2016 at 8:00 a.m., the container was transported to Hamburg with the help of a self-loading truck. Beforehand, we had to have the container moved to fit this truck.
In Hamburg, the container was loaded onto the CSAV Toconao at HHLA Terminal Burchardkai with destination Douala. From there it will then travel overland to Benoye.
On May 19, 2016, we were awarded the Regine Hildebrandt Prize at Bielefeld City Hall. A recording of the award ceremony, provided by NRWision, can be found below: https://www.nrwision.de/mediathek/regine-hildebrandt-preis-2016-160519/
On 26.11.2016, the anniversary of Regine Hildebrandt’s death, the ceremony took place in the Willy Brandt House. Deputy SPD party chairwoman and Federal Minister for Family Affairs Manuela Schwesig, who is also chairwoman of the jury, and Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas presented the award.
We were delighted to receive this award.
In addition to a complete set of bakery equipment from baker Peter from Essen, we also sent the following donated and refurbished goods:
7 pallets of tiles, 1 box of 251 garden tools, 1 box of safety shoes and work clothes, 1 pallet of 7 plastic windows completely removed from a demolition house on the grounds of Magdalenenhof in Hildesheim, 1 single-axle milling machine, 3 blackboards, 2 hand plows, 2 workshop benches, 3 warming containers, 1 electric welding machine with accessories, 1 box of screws and nails, 10 wheelchairs, 2 power generators, 4 cut-off saws, 3 power hammers and 50 bicycles, 2 food processors and 1 stainless steel scale, 1 box of blood pressure monitors and stethoscopes as well as donations of nursing supplies sent to us by “Little Flowers of China”.
The donations came from collections by the DGB local associations in Sehnde and Burgdorf, the Volkssolidarität Mittelmark in Potsdam, the city administration of Hannover, the AWO district association in Hildesheim and many individuals.
Master baker Klaus Peter from Essen organized the delivery of a bakery for the Dresden-Banjul-Organization (DBO) to us. This included a baking oven weighing around 4 tons.
Loading the oven was a major challenge for us. We loaded it together with tools, bicycles, blackboards, road construction machinery (donated by the city of Hannover), welding transformers and power generators.
We also shipped 7 complete windows that we were able to salvage from a demolition on the Magdalenenhof site.
On September 5, 2016, we loaded 300 used bicycles from our external warehouse on Cheruskerring for the Eritrean war-disabled association EWDVA.
We were supported by the Department of Social Affairs – Promotion of Employment of the City of Hannover “Tools for Africa”, the Labora youth workshop, Labora Barsinghausen and the DGB local branches in Sehnde and Burgdorf.
On July 20, a 20′ shipping container was unloaded on our premises.
The container will be used for the next aid shipment from Lernen-Helfen-Leben (L-H-L) to Chad.
LHL is planning to send a large photovoltaic system.
On February 10, 2016, we again loaded a 40′ container to support the work of DBO in Sukuta / Gambia
We organized the loading and transport of a 20′ container with donations for the Robert Bosch Comprehensive School in Hildesheim to Sanya Juu in Tanzania to equip a hospital ward. The container arrived safely.
