Limburg. The Limburger Adolf-Reichwein-school has 2400 pupils. If everyone would donate just a €, came together a considerable sum. An idea that was approved by the student body of the technical secondary school health ignited and take action. The donation will be delivered to the Haiti Children's Aid, which helps child slaves in the island nation on 12 January of last year was rocked by an earthquake with catastrophic consequences. 316 000 people died, as many were wounded, millions are homeless.
1200 adolescents and young adults listened to in the Limburg-Heinz Wolf-Hall surgeon Dr. Achim Lauer. The care physicians practicing in Aarbergen for years to orphans in disaster areas. In 2004, he had shortly after the tsunami, with concerned citizens from the area Burgschwalbach / Aarbergen the organization "We Do With" set up to initiate a community project for victims of the tsunami in Sri Lanka. In the next three years, the group organized concerts, readings, slide shows and fortress and brought together 50,000 euros for orphans. Similarly, the reconstruction of a village was helped.
formed after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the group again to support the same principles a children's project in Haiti. Achim Lauer: "We wanted to separate ourselves from large organizations. Every cent is due to arrive at the victims. With the Haiti Children's Aid, we have a reliable cooperation partner Location found, which guarantees us and the donors, the use of funds proves transparent. "Lauer showed slides and a film about restaveks children, the sons of slaves from impoverished families from the country that are given to foreign families in the area of early have to work late. "They are beaten, scalded and sexually abused. After escape attempts, they are chained to work to do inside the cabins. Very few have access to education, "said the doctor. As the images on the screen Lauer documented words, it had grown quiet as a mouse in the stands of the sports hall.
"According to medical studies, two thirds the children are malnourished, one third of them there is danger, "Lauer described the states. "We will not solve the problem, but can ease," said the teacher Lydia Ruhland that the aid project "for the restaveks" prepared by a group of students. This includes an exhibition that can still be seen this week in the lobby of the school. "One could take the view: What have we been to Haiti," said Ruhl, and let students about their reasons for supporting the project contend, the poorest of the poor in one of the poorest countries in the world dedicated is. There's lives to normal a year after the earthquake, not again.
(D) € gives a child a little bit of hope for the future and ensures that it can learn something, "says a leaflet, which the skilled high school students to motivate their peers to participate. They find support even with their teachers. Headmaster Ralf Abel has called on the entire school community to send a message of solidarity. The school band accompanied the opening event of the action that should also be reflected in the classroom.
Image & Text: Dieter Fluck
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