Together Issue 2012 - Henkel

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Together
USA: Elementary school children in
Frederick , Maryland (USA), won the
“Henkel Helps – Get Kids Fit” contest in
2011. Their video project prevailed over
nine competitors in online voting. The
school will be using the prize money to
install a track, to encourage pupils to be
more active athletically.
www.henkelhelps.com
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Nepal: Danielle Fleurackers from Belgium
support s a house for street children in
Kathmandu, Nepal – Shangrila Home. The
project began in 1995, and it now gives 79
street children a new home, as well as an
opportunity to lead a well-ordered life and
to go to school.
www.shangrilahome.org
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Marocco: Pascale Lefèvre helps the nonprofi
t organization “Sefrou” in her free
time. Its goal is to collect donations in
order to help people in isolated regions of
Morocco. The organization supports a
children’s home with the donations, for
example.
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Bangladesch: Henkel retiree Rita Fritzsche
works as a volunteer at the Lichtbrücke in
Engelskirchen. The support for her MIT project
made it possible for the organization to
provide school materials for approximately
300 preschool children in Khagrachari,
Bangladesh.
www.lichtbruecke.com
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Germany: Frank Kleinwächter is active in
the “Flying Fish” youth group of the “Petri
Heil” fi shing club in Düsseldorf. He is very
interested in getting young people to
understand the importance of nature and
water conservation. In 2011, Henkel helped
the club to renature the north-east shore of
its lake.
www.fl ifi s.de
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Serbia: The Mrvica Nursery School in Novi
Sad, Serbia, has 14 groups with 25 children
each. A little extra help is always welcome.
Dragana Markovic, a Henkel employee in
Serbia, volunteers at the Nursery School in
her free time. With fi nancial support from
Henkel, she has also been able to arrange
for new equipment for the playground.
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India: Henkel employee Dr. Reimar Heucher
supports the Indo-German Help for
Children (IGHC) organization and its projects
in his free time. Following the tsunami in
2004, it built a vocational training school in
Ranganathapuram with Henkel’s help, thus
enabling children to obtain this education.
www.deutsch-indische- kinderhilfe.de