24 Good Deeds for Social Institutions in Our Employees’ Communities
A Good Deed Behind Every Door
With the Christmas season approaching, KNF has decided to help those less fortunate with an advent calendar full of heartfelt good deeds. Instead of Christmas presents, we are donating to social projects and campaigns. Have a peek at the charitable deeds behind the doors!
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December 1. The wait is over: It’s time to open the first door on our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar. Once again, we want to give something back to our local community and thank many wonderful organizations for their vital work.
The family house run by the Förderverein für krebskranke Kinder e.V. of Freiburg, the association for children with cancer, makes a real difference for families affected. This is why we would like to honor their work with door number 1 of our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar, which contains a monetary donation for this organization.
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Time for the whole KNF team to get active: “Money for kilometers or pounds of flour” is on! We will rack up the kilometers and turn pounds and pounds of flour into delicious goods.
And then we will convert all of this into a monetary donation for the Freiburg charitable organization Frauen in Not e.V., which set up OFF (Obdach für Frauen). OFF helps women to help themselves. Concrete example of the organization’s work are renting and furnishing housing, interest-free small loans, acting as guarantor towards landlords, training and further training grants.
Baking, going for a run, a walk, a stroll, cross-country skiing or cycling – everything counts!
We are opening heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 2 and are saying thank you for a total of 29 kilometers and 4 pounds of flour!
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KNF’s heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 3 opens to reveal another monetary donation to OFF (Obdach für Frauen), an initiative by the Freiburg organization Frauen in Not e.V. Our team has conquered many kilometers and baked using countless pounds of flour, all of which is turned into a monetary donation to support the organization’s efforts to help women out of homelessness. Thank you all so much for a total of 14 kilometers and 8 pounds!
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Living independently in your own home: That’s how most of us envisage the last few years of our lives. Organizations such as the day care center for the elderly Prälat-Stiefvater-Haus make that possible. We’ve donated a Christmas tree to adorn the facility this advent season: That’s our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 4.
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With money being tight and health problems, people can get into trouble – and this affects their pets, too. This is where the Freiburg organization Treue Begleiter e.V. comes in. With regular free pet food donations, pet owners have one worry less, and it may even be the difference between having to give a pet away or being able to keep it.
Our donation behind door number 5 of the heartfelt good deeds advent calendar is a contribution to this important support scheme.
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A whole sack of candy can be heavy to carry, so of course the Nikolaus will have a whole host of eager helpers: Knecht Ruprecht, the angels, and the lovely members of the KNF team who have packed stockings full of goodies for the children of employees. Also in the little bags: A personal letter from the Nikolaus himself. We can’t wait to see the beaming faces!
This is our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 6.
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Heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 7 opens for the Hospiz Karl Josef hospice. Here, people in their last stage of life, often along with their relatives, receive thorough nursing, medical and mental support. We would like to support these moments of families being together with a cake donation for their afternoon tea.
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Today, door number 8 of heartfelt good deeds advent calendar reveals a donation for young homeless people. With the Freiburger Straßenschule project, they are given the invaluable opportunity to move into a safe space that they can call home. We’d like to donate a Christmas tree to the housing project as well as sending many good wishes for the future.
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The Kinderschutzbund Freiburg e.V. has a dream. It’s a dream of happy, strong children. Children whose childhood is free, safe and full of confidence. To help this dream come true, several colleagues have racked up over 159 kilometers doing sport and baked with 5 pounds of flour in the kitchen that we will now turn into a monetary donation.
This is what’s behind heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 9.
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Heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 10 is also dedicated to Kinderschutzbund Freiburg e.V. Once again, our colleagues have been tirelessly jogging and baking: We can now convert 110 km and 4 pounds of flour into donations. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU!
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“Every person has the right to food, nobody should have to beg for that,” says the Freiburger Essenstreff - Förderverein Essenstreff e.V. food bank. We’re glad to support them on the ground by helping to give out food to those who need it. Many colleagues have volunteered at the organization: Heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 11.
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The Bahnhofsmission helps everyone. And with heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 12, KNF helps the train station mission. We donate a Christmas tree to the train station mission, hopefully bringing some light and hope to the advent period for the helpers and those seeking help.
That’s our small contribution to the essential work of the train station mission.
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The non-profit organization myreforest aims to protect local woods. Reforestation projects turn damaged monocultures into healthy, viable mixed forests. This is something we are happy to support with our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar. Door number 13 reveals 25 trees that are going to bring life to a part of the forest near our head office in Freiburg-Munzingen that has been lying fallow.
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Lots of little packages are hidden behind heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door 14: The AWO Workers’ Welfare Association in Freiburg presents elderly people in need with lovingly packed surprises. The KNF team is delighted to contribute to the event by donating gifts: All manner of useful everyday items for elderly people affected by poverty.
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We support the invaluable work of the Salvation Army Freiburg behind heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 15. Many team members have volunteered to help pack Christmas goody bags. The goody bags will be filled with gifts from various companies. They will be handed out as Christmas presents to the guests at the open café Insel.
We are grateful to have been able to make an active contribution.
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For over 50 years, the Freiburg organization Ring der Körperbehinderten has championed the interests of people with physical disabilities and worked to break down barriers. The organization offers a diverse range of services, from housing and support to social services, disabled sport and an extensive range of group activities.
We hope that our monetary donation can help support this important work. Out team has certainly given their all at the weekend, baking and covering many kilometers. Every kilometer and every pound of flour will go towards a donation – A total of 28 kilometers and 8 pounds of flour are behind heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 16.
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Even Sunday is no day of rest for the KNF team during heartfelt good deeds advent calendar times! With door number 17, all their sports and baking activities on a Sunday will go to the Freiburg organization Ring der Körperbehinderten in support of their efforts to break down barriers for people with physical disabilities.
We can now convert 38 km and 9 pounds of flour into a donation to this organization.
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Behind the 18th door of our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar, our thoughts turn to the Freiburger Tafel food bank. Many colleagues have donated all kinds of long-dated food products and filled numerous boxes which were now taken to the food bank to bring some joy. At KNF, we are 100% behind the food bank’s motto “food donations help to help”.
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Finding missing persons as quickly as possible is the life-saving task of the many human and canine volunteers at Rettungshundestaffel Neuenburg e.V.
To support Rettungshundestaffel Neuenburg e.V., door number 19 of our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar has a monetary donation that will support training.
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Our apprentices have come up with a special surprise for door number 20 of our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar: They have decided to donate their time and collect litter along roads and paths, and on playgrounds – cigarette buds, broken glass, plastic bags and other things that don’t belong in nature. The litter collection will take place in Freiburg-Munzingen, just outside our head office. We think this is a great idea! Kudos to our team of apprentices for making our lovely Tuniberg village even nicer.
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Some of our colleagues are dedicated blood donors the whole year round. All the more amazing that our heartfelt good deeds advent calendar is recruiting even more donors behind door number 21.
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Only two more days! Behind door 22 of the heartfelt good deeds advent calendar is a large quantity of food for the animals at the animal protection association Tierschutzverein Freiburg e.V.
Once again the KNF team was very generous with donations – a huge thank you to all!
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The gift behind heartfelt good deeds advent calendar door number 23 will go straight into the local community: The children at Kindergarten Freiburg-Munzingen daycare center can look forward to a number of nice new items that are essential for looking after the smallest members of our community.
That will definitely put a smile on everyone’s faces in the new year!
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Living on the street or at risk of becoming homeless – in this situation, the work of Pflasterstub’ in Freiburg can bring relief.
Drop-in center, medical services and counselling – the social workers at Pflasterstub’ support up to 120 people a day towards restoring their dignity. The medical services are provided by volunteer nurses and doctors. The center also offers counselling for addiction or mental health problems. The team also provides a place to shower, wash clothes and have breakfast without charge.
The 24th and final door of our #HeartfeltGoodDeeds advent calendar opens onto a monetary donation for this association.
This was the last door of KNF’s heartfelt good deeds advent calendar 2023. We wish you a peaceful holiday season and merry Christmas!
