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Daimler 360 GRAD - FAKTEN zur Nachhaltigkeit 2008 Daimler Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2008 / Customers and society / Social commitment / Social and cultural projects* “Im Tennental”: Trainees team up with severely handicapped persons to build a house The partnership between Mercedes-Benz’ Sindelfingen plant and the “Im Tennental” village community has a long tradition. Some 200 people, including 110 severely disabled individuals between the ages of 16 and 56, live and work in the community, which is located in the town of Deckenpfronn near Böblingen. For more than ten years now, Daimler trainees have spent a week during their second year of training at “Im Tennental.” During this time, they help the disabled with projects designed to improve life in the village. Among other things, trainees have worked with community members to build new footpaths and a pond with a barbecue area. The partners have also constructed a hay drying facility and expanded a cheese dairy on the site. Back in 2006, Daimler trainees got together with disabled residents to erect a wood-frame house with a total area of 250 square meters that now serves as a school for training disability support workers. The house had previously been used as a construction shed at the Daimler plant in Sindelfingen, and the Group provided €10,000 toward the cost to move it. The latest cooperation project involves the expansion of a woodworking shop at “Im Tennental.” The existing shop, in which the disabled residents make wooden toys, had become too small to accommodate its output. Along with retirees from the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant, the Daimler trainees spent three months expanding the workshop — and were helped out wherever possible by the residents themselves. This voluntary effort saved the community €50,000. Most of the material costs here were covered with a €20,000 donation from the STAR CARE Stuttgart association, whose chairman, Volker Stauch, also manages the Mercedes-Benz plants in Untertürkheim, Berlin-Marienfelde, Hamburg, and Kölleda. STAR CARE helps kids in need STAR CARE is an association established by Daimler employees to help sick, handicapped, neglected, and otherwise needy children. The association is divided into five chapters within Germany that stage benefit performances and other events to raise money for the cause. Last year, for example, the Stuttgart chapter held its STAR CARE Night 2007. Proceeds totaling €40,000 were donated to the Diakonie Stetten organization, which supports the disabled. The funds thus raised are making it possible for a group of young mentally handicapped people to take part in the Special Olympics National Games to be held in Karlsruhe in June 2008. STAR CARE Hessen also launched an initiative with the Mercedes-Benz plant in Kassel and other partners that has benefited five young individuals from troubled backgrounds who had previously searched in vain for a trainee position. On September 3, 2007, these new trainees began a two-year apprenticeship at the Kassel plant that will end with their certification as machinists through a program recognized by the German Chamber of Commerce. Further information on STAR CARE assistance projects can be found here. for humanitarian causes all over the world Food for the needy: Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e. V. drives Mercedes-Benz Although Germany has a surplus of food, many people in the country simply don’t have enough money to buy the food they need. The Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e. V. aid organization is addressing this problem: Under the motto “Everyone gives what they can,“ voluntary helpers collect leftovers that, although still of good quality, can no longer be sold at bakeries, outdoor markets, and supermarkets. The food is then distributed either directly by the organization or else via other groups that also assist the needy. Daimler has been one of the main sponsors of Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e. V. since 1998. The Group originally got involved by donating 100 used Mercedes-Benz Vito vans complete with service contracts. Since the year 2000, however, our company has also been offering the organization refrigerated Vito and Sprinter vans at very low prices. Daimler is therefore helping to ensure that Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e. V. remains on the move and can get the food it collects to those who need it.
Daimler 360 GRAD - FAKTEN zur Nachhaltigkeit 2008 Daimler Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2008 / Customers and society / Social commitment / Social and cultural projects* Forgotten Harvest — Food for the needy in Detroit Forgotten Harvest is an aid organization based in Detroit that was established in 1990 to battle hunger and waste in the city. As is the case with Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e. V., voluntary helpers from Forgotten Harvest collect leftover food from supermarkets, outdoor markets, restaurants, and caterers, and then distribute it to soup kitchens for the needy in the region. The Daimler AG subsidiary Daimler Financial Services Americas, which is headquartered in the Detroit metropolitan area, has extensively supported the organization for several years now. In this regard, Daimler Financial Services Americas and Daimler remain good corporate citizens and neighbors even in the aftermath of the Chrysler de-merger. Among other things, we’ve donated three new Freightliner trucks to Forgotten Harvest, and have contributed $100,000 to a food donation drive. We also held a competition that resulted in the collection of more than 2,000 kilograms of food. Helping Africa: Daimler and the German Foundation for World Population (DWS) The German Foundation for World Population (DWS) is an international development organization that seeks to help people free themselves from poverty. DWS, which is politically and religiously independent, focuses on family planning and sex education as a way of breaking the cycle of poverty. It is also the only non-governmental organization of any significance in Germany to address the often-neglected issue of overpopulation. Daimler has helped launch DWS youth and educational projects in five African countries to date. We do this because we are convinced that only people who can protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS will have the chance to lead healthier and better lives. School of Joy — Helping children and adolescents in Palestine The “School of Joy” is a private school in Beit Sahour, Palestine, which is attended by around 60 children and adolescents with learning difficulties or psychological disorders. Some of the students are orphans, while others are in families that live in abject poverty. The school operates mainly on the basis of donations. Together with the German children's charity Die Sternsinger, Daimler last year presented the school with a Mercedes-Benz Vito for use as a school bus. This was actually the second vehicle that we’ve made available to the School of Joy. Today, the Vito is helping transport those children who live far away to and from the school. Every year, Daimler also helps out by selling olive wood carvings made by the school’s students to employees in Germany. The proceeds go directly to the school, where they help — along with additional funding from our company — to keep it up and running. For terminally ill children: Daimler supports Hospitz St. Nikolaus In November 2006, the first children’s hospice in southern Germany — Hospitz St. Nikolaus — opened in the town of Bad Grönenbach. Daimler helped fund the hospice knowing that terminally ill children and their families would find loving support there. Hospitz St. Nikolaus takes the burden of 24-hour childcare away from parents, thus giving them the opportunity to prepare for the difficult time ahead.
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