So much good for the region

At the turn of the year 2018/2019, six charitable institutions were pleased to receive a donation from us. We have provided a total of 14,000 euros for the good cause instead of investing in Christmas gifts for customers.

At the joint New Year's Café at the turn of the year, representatives of these institutions met their sponsors, i.e. the employees who had suggested the recipients of the donations.

Jens Grill invites you to the Shera

Shera boss Jens Grill greeted the guests from the hospice foundation Stemweder Berg, the food edition and the youth theatre project of the Lutheran parish of Lemförde, the natural and cultural heritage of the Umweltschutzvereinigung Dümmer e.V., the forest kindergarten Brockum and the the support association of the Wagenfeld primary school. The committed visitors reported on their work and on how the donations were used. will be.

The recipients of the donations presented their projects

The beginning was made by Helga Storck from the ecclesiastical Food distribution. Two days a week, people buy with a warrant there for one euro. The food is Donations from surrounding merchants. At Christmas, the Food dispenser for around 70 children under the age of 14 Gifts of value of 20 euros made possible by the Shera donation.

The children make a big circus

The primary school pupils of the Auburg School in Wagenfeld also benefit from Shera's commitment: in summer, a circus project week takes place at the school, about which the board of directors of the association informed Thomas Haese.

With the listening box on night watch

The project of the Natur- und Umweltschutzvereinigung Dümmer e.V., which supports the Shera with a donation for species protection projects, is considerably quieter. Claus Tormöhlen reported on the further development of Animal Hotels and projects for the protection of stag beetles. His colleague Christian Vogel also brought along the listening box, which records the high-frequency sounds of various bats and makes them audible. While children, for example, can still hear the local Great Evening Sailor, adults are groping in acoustic darkness. With the listening box, Christian Vogel no longer has to lie in wait at night, but can sleep well and analyse the recordings the next day. The bat expert is able to distinguish the species by the sound and differentiates between locating calls when preying and social calls of nocturnal mammals.

Off to the forest with the new yurt

In the nature also the Youngest from the forest kindergarten Brockum very well. Gundi told us about it Kramer, director and good soul of the facility at Stemweder Berg. yours The aim is for children to grow up in harmony with nature and to learn to I don't want to. "The kindergarten years are the only time in a lifetime People's lives that can be spent every day outdoors in nature. That never comes again and is very precious." Gundi Kramer is one of them. convinced. With the Shera donation, the wilderness educators create a yurt a round tent with a diameter of 6 metres, which is suitable for small events and offers protection. This lends the Waldkindergärtner also within the joint municipality of Lemförde to others Clubs. Shera managing director Jens grill grinned: For years had we have a party tent at Shera's. It hardly had to make way for the new building, we'll finance a new one elsewhere."

Full of the theatre with the young people

The tent also pushed to Deacon Ingo Jäger and Sophia Vogts. You are youth workers at the Evangelical Lutheran Church and provide support for the the theater project, which was presented at the Lemförder Summer with the performances will have its climax. The Shera donation will be used for backdrops, costumes and a kola to refresh the players.

Help for the last act

Dr. Friedhelm Lehrich from the hospice foundation and Nicole Otte from the ambulant Hospice and palliative counselling service Lemförde reported on the last Act in a man's life. In order to protect the well-being of dying people Relatives then take care of the hospice attendants who, with the help of the Shera donation can be further qualified and participate in training courses can. You work on a voluntary basis and sometimes have to deal with very burdensome cope with situations. It's a good thing to find people who honorary so engage, in it guests and the hosts were themselves agree. SHERA CEO Jens Grill thanked his employees and the Employees who had suggested the clubs for a donation, and are partly active as volunteers themselves. "Only with you and our Shera can earn the donations and can use the money to help to contribute to the colourful coexistence in the region."