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28.10.2009
Get-together Saumweg 8: Taking a different stance together.
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The Rötenberg district in Aalen is a ‘social melting point’ close to the Caritas homeless facility. The people who live in Rötenberg are from various sectors of the population who tend to dissociate from one another. Senior citizens (expellees from former German territories), people with a migrant background (mostly Turkish) and people (often with alcohol problems) who have been placed in housing here by the authorities collide rather than come together. The majority of the residents is socially disadvantaged. This is manifest either in long-term unemployment, addictive disorders, lack of naturalisation, language problems or crime. The project “Treff Saumweg 8” is a joint development of various schemes of Caritas and the people involved.
This get-together is open for all and, for instance visitors, who have no bathroom facilities at home can have a shower here. Light meals and snacks can be prepared together. There are also leisure activities, further education courses (e.g. IT training), information (e.g. on unemployment and social benefits) and social counselling services. The aim of these many offers is to stabilise the district, to create and extend social networks, to get rid of prejudices and create a “sense of belonging together”. What’s important here is involving the residents in the planning and realisation of the projects. The “us” feeling is the right way to jointly address the various social problems that arise in such a close environment. Thanks to the Auerbach Foundation the work initiated here can be further developed and stabilised.
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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