From 2005 to 2011, we supported the Ludwigshafen Center for Individual Educational Assistance (LuZiE) every year and, for the first time in 2010, the Tierhilfe Ludwigshafen e.V. association. As part of the LuZiE project “Parental involvement and violence prevention in municipal educational landscapes”, a wide variety of services were developed and implemented with the aim of offering educationally disadvantaged and socially deprived families (including single parents and young mothers) support in raising and caring for their children as early as possible. One way of achieving this is to invite socially disadvantaged and low-income families in particular to family camps, to provide them with new areas of learning in community and social interaction and to inform them about important moments of support for their children with the help of suitable image-based information. These planned family camps are organized in cooperation with the local parishes and involve considerable costs.

With our donation, we support LuZiE in carrying out its important tasks and hope that we can make a small contribution to ensuring that social background does not determine the educational opportunities and thus the future of children.

In addition, we have been supporting the association Tierhilfe Ludwigshafen e.V. since 2010. In 2010 in particular, it was not only companies and banks that were affected by the economic crisis, but also many associations and charitable organizations that suffered from dwindling finances.

Many animal shelters in Germany saw donations plummet and many pet owners were forced to give up their animals for financial reasons because they could no longer afford the maintenance or veterinary costs. Yet for pensioners and single people in particular, animals are often family members who protect them from loneliness and act as a “bridge to society”.

The animals that are handed in for financial reasons are often sick or even in need of surgery, are often difficult to place and thus become costly long-term guests. Due to the extremely high number of seriously ill or even injured animals, the association was forced to draw on its emergency financial reserves in 2010 and was urgently reliant on donations in order to continue its work.

With our donation, we were able to actively support the association in continuing its business.