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28.06.2009
Prisoners help youngsters.
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The work of Förderverein gegen Jugendgewalt e.V. [Friends against Youth Violence] is directed at young people between the ages of 14 and 21, who are on the edge of starting a criminal career or already have committed offences. Via the project “Prisoners help youngsters Schleswig-Holstein” they have the chance of getting to know the negative effects of violence and crime and seeing the severe consequences of drifting into a life of crime. The special feature of this project is that prisoners “inside” take up contact with adolescents “outside”. The Friends’ team focuses on a dialogue on the spot between delinquent youths and selected, responsible inmates who have since regretted their past action.
The visit to the prison really shakes the young people up. They can see at first hand that time spent in a correctional facility means going to your personal limits: former friends of inmates often abandon them, future job prospects are also very poor. It is made clear to the young people that they have to think seriously about their own life and their future. This thought-provoking impulse should make it clear that a life without violence and crime can offer more prospects. The Auerbach Foundation supports this association so that the youngsters can be shown ways of dealing with conflicts positively and without violence.
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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