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19.07.2007
Ingenious: GENESIS breaks down barriers with play.
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Children with disabilities are limited in what they can do. When learning and playing, they are therefore reliant on help and have to be supported very sensitively in making decisions. The majority of games and playgrounds are designed to deal with the needs of children with disabilities. Play and learn software fills this gap and creates a seamless crossover between playing and learning. GENESIS is thus opening up the future opportunities for the communal world of play learning.
Disabled and able-bodied children can discover differences as well as similarities, are able to practise how to cope with diversity and tolerance and allow valuable attitudes to develop. With the backing of the Auerbach Foundation, the Ohm Hochschule in Nuremberg is able to continue to develop this play and learn software and make it available free-of-charge to children. Parents, carers and therapists can create their own games and exercises without requiring any experience of computing.
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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