"wir helfen" in Halle
History
The chair of the association "wir helfen" founded in Halle in 2001 is held by Hedwig Neven DuMont. Besides her, the association's members are: Jutta Kiegeland (deputy chairperson), Dagmar Szabados (mayor in Halle), Gerlinde Kuppe (Social Welfare Minister of Saxony-Anhalt), Eberhard Doege (CDU deputy town clerk in Halle), Eberhard Jüttner (state chairman of the German Association of Welfare Organizations [Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband]), Bernard-Michael Raubuch (regional director of Deutsche Bank in Halle) and Franz Peter Ewert (managing director).
In late summer 2002, when the great flood catastrophe also swashed over Saxony-Anhalt, 5.6 million euros were collected and handed out to more than 330 persons affected in a special campaign in which Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and EXPRESS participated.
The association directs its main focus on the support of disadvantaged children and young persons in Saxony-Anhalt. It has supported the following projects:
2001/02: "Straßenkinder"
["street children"] - 60 000 Euro
2002/03: "Traurige Helden" ["sad
heroes"] - support for children of addicts - 80 000 Euro
2003/04: "Verletzte Seelen"
["injured souls"] - support for abused and neglected
children - 59 000 Euro
2004/05: "Lernbehinderte"
["children with learning difficulties"] - 57 500 Euro
2005/06: "Chance trotz Handikap"
["a chance despite the handicap"] - help for disabled and
disadvantaged children - 79 500 Euro
2006/07: "Kinder ohne Lobby brauchen
Zukunft" ["Children without lobby need a future "]-
94 000 Euro
2007/08: "Wir wollen Kinder stark
machen" ["We want to strengthen the children"]- 115
000 Euro
2008/09: "Kinder ohne Lobby haben mehr
Chancen durch Bildung"["Children without lobby have more
prospect with education"]