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25.06.2009
Spark of hope: counselling that catches on.
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Youngsters are often a bit closer to the worries and needs of their peer groups. With counselling by youths for youths the spark of enthusiasm often jumps across much quicker. This was reason enough for the Regensburg Deutscher Kinderschutzbund to set up the project “Spark of Hope”. Every Saturday from 2 – 7 p.m. children and adolescents are counselled free of charge by young people. The youngsters are volunteers and before they start their work on the helpline they receive a 70-hour training by a social educationalist to prepare them extensively for their work. Every two weeks the calls are discussed to address specific topics and if, necessary, to provide help.
The aim of the project is to help the kids to help themselves. Young people have less inhibitions telling people from their peer group about their problems and fears. The youth counsellors are specially trained in coping with difficulties. This way they not only help others but, along the way, also occupy themselves with their own worries and difficulties. Help is given in many fields, ranging from boredom, problems with family or friends, lovesickness to abuse or suicidal thoughts. In more complex counselling situations, and where there is a greater need for help, special counselling facilities are activated for the protection of the caller and the youth counsellor. The Auerbach Foundation sponsors the training of youth volunteers.
About the Auerbach Foundation
The aim of the Auerbach Foundation is to provide help and support for people on a lasting basis.
To be able to grasp a situation we first have to understand it. And with this understanding we can, within the scope of our project funding, provide an impetus, and that is the first step in helping people to help themselves.
With its charitable and social donations the Auerbach Foundation minimises financial, spiritual, mental and physical hardship. It also seeks to create avenues for art, culture and science and, in doing so, to safeguard values, such as security and creativity.
In concrete terms this means:
- Funding people:
youth aid, aid for the old, aid for the disabled, development aid
- Funding education and socialisation
- Funding science and research
- Funding art and culture
The Auerbach Foundation was founded in 2005 by the Avira GmbH partner, Tjark Auerbach and finances its projects from donations.
Anyone buying the software Avira AntiVir Premium or Avira Premium Security Suite in the Avira online shop, makes a contribution of five euros per product to the Foundation projects.
In 2008 a total of approximately € 800,000 will go to benefit social and cultural projects.
Should you require further information or photographs please contact:
Auerbach Foundation
Publicity
Michael Gessler
Frankenstraße 152
90461 Nuremberg
Tel: +49 (0) 1805 - 28 37 22
Fax: +49 (0) 1805 - 28 37 24
Email: presse@auerbach-stiftung.de
Website: www.auerbach-foundation.com
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