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30.12.2009
Family Club in Görlitz – more than just a meeting point for parents and children!
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The city of Görlitz is on the German-Polish border. As a cultural city with buildings from several centuries it has an important European significance. However, lots of people, especially young people, leave the city in the search of work and new perspectives. Görlitz has a problem with an over-ageing population. With the close proximity to Poland, the number of immigrants is greatly increasing and there are many German-Polish families settling in the city. However, only a few of these families are integrated in the city life. Worries about finding a job and being accepted in the community mean stress for a partnership, the family and the children, and the result is a high divorce rate, single-parent and patchwork families.
Therefore – before the family falls apart – the families need to be made aware of the help they can get in good time. For Caritas in Görlitz this means finding new ways and developing new programmes to help families. A new pilot project, completely different to the counselling projects to date, has been realised with the help of the Auerbach Foundation. With help at an early stage the parents find support and relief in various circumstances and development phases. The programme focuses on education, counselling and inter-relational encounters. To ensure that the needs of the families involved remain the focal point and that integration can take place, these programmes are organised “by parents for parents”.
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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