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30.12.2009
“When daddy hits mummy …”
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The organisation Frauen-Notruf has been helping women to escape domestic violence for more 20 years now, and many of these women have children. For these children domestic violence is an omnipresent and bitter reality. Over the years they sometimes experience their father insulting, controlling, beating, choking, raping their mother. The boys and girls often fear for their lives, feel completely helpless and at the same time responsible for this dreadful situation. This greatly affects their own possibilities for personal development. The victim/abuser status they have experienced often finds its way into their own later relationships. The children’s and youth counselling centre “phoenix” contacts the children affected and offers them help appropriate for their age group.
The children and youngsters get the support they need to put the violence they have experienced into words and help in coping with it. Here the focus is on their needs, their experiences and their abilities. Apart from this open counselling, “phoenix” also contacts the children and young people involved in their day-to-day environments: school, kindergarten or youth centres. This way they can also reach children affected, who themselves would not turn to the counselling centre. Topics such as “Protection against violence” and “Development of violence in a partnership” are dealt with, and tangible help can be given. The Auerbach Foundation helps “phoenix” to make an important contribution in preventing 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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