By Bernd Siggelkow | founder and chairman
Dear friend of the “Arche“,
we would like to thank you from the depths of our heart.
Thank you for your enormous support at an extraordinary time like this. We are awed by your sympathy at our children´s situations, as well as by the huge wave of willingness to help. But only with your help we could have been able to provide the aids in need for our children and their families recently.
After closing our doors in the middle of March, we served more than 1600 families with food parcels and sanitary products.
Not only the supply of aid packages - we also kept one eye on the consequences of living together permanently in the smallest spaces. The “Arche” accompanied children through their new everyday life.
To stay in touch and be there for the children and teenagers we arranged a virtual Arche at the very beginning. By means of groups on messengers, children and parents are able to text and call us. In case of problems encountered we gave advice. Besides, our employees tried their best to help with homework, they played, danced and sang together – everything online of course.
A focal and essential message to the families which was delivered through aid packages as well as virtual support reads: You are not alone!
Thank you for participating in it!
And even though some of our locations are able to reopen due to strict hygiene regulations for a limited number of children, we are far apart yet from our varied daily routine. It is still not possible to open the doors for everybody and serve with usual offers such as lunch for free, which is actually so important. All the more we are looking forward to the moment we may welcome all our children and their families.
Until then we will support needy families with aid packages, encourage them for this curious situation and offer to help.
We will stay on it – motivating and caring, we are there! Whereas we are not systemically relevant in terms of COVID-19, all the more we are extremely relevant for relationship!
Once again, thank you very much for facilitating this situation with your donation!
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