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DGAP-News: FUCHS PETROLUB SE / Key word(s): Miscellaneous
2016-10-26 / 14:30
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FUCHS presents sponsorship award of EUR 50,000 to 15 social projects in
Mannheim
The global lubricant manufacturer FUCHS PETROLUB SE will present the FUCHS
sponsorship award for the seventeenth time on October 26, 2016. A large
number of worthy projects, which in particular focus on social cohesion and
civic engagement in Mannheim, are to be awarded a sponsorship sum of EUR
50,000 in total. Mayor Dr. Peter Kurz will once again act as patron.
"The FUCHS sponsorship award carries the motto 'Helping People' and
expresses our recognition of the many voluntary helpers who achieve great
things with their work, far from the limelight. I would especially like to
thank the many people whose efforts make the implementation of the social
projects possible," says Stefan Fuchs, Chairman of the Executive Board of
FUCHS PETROLUB.
With EUR 7,000, the highest individual amount will go to the "Kulturparkett
Rhein-Neckar" association. The organization dedicates itself to social and
cultural participation and collects admission tickets for cultural events,
which are then donated to adults and children with low incomes. The
"Mannheimer Straßenschule" will receive EUR 6,000 for the project "My
Future - My Success", in which students are prepared for a school leaver's
certificate outside of the normal school system and receive coaching on
careers. "Wohnhaus Wallstadt" will receive EUR 5,000 EUR for setting up a
snoezelen room for helping people with severe disabilities find relaxation
and new stimuli. The "Mannheimer Cleverlinge²" project run by KinderHelden
gGmbH supports children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Mannheim by
providing them with mentors who introduce them to the varied learning and
leisure opportunities that the city has to offer. This project will also
receive EUR 5,000. With its "Mädchenwerkstatt" ("girls' workshop") project,
the "Lichtblick" support group of the Maria Montessori school provides a
protected space in which girls can acquire manual skills and learn how to
handle tools safely. The project will be awarded EUR 4,000. An award of EUR
3,700 will enable "Lebenshilfe Mannheim" to build a little house for a
kindergarten. The children will be able to collect and return their toy
vehicles in this little house, giving them a flavor of independence. The
"zeitraumexit" cultural association will receive EUR 3,500 for the "Drawing
Outsider Art International" project. Zeitraumexit displayed drawings from
artists with mental disabilities in an exhibition for the first time,
thereby encouraging social interaction between people with and without
disabilities. EUR 2,500 has been donated to the "Sexual education work with
unaccompanied refugee children" project run by the "pro familia Mannheim"
association. The aim of this initiative is to strengthen intercultural
competence and communication skills. A further EUR 2,500 will go to the
cross-school "FILM-AG" project of the "Internationaler Bund" association,
in which students who are interested in films can actively take part in the
production of a film. The "Groovy music group with and for mentally ill
people" project run by "Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen e.V." inspires
people with mental illnesses to make music. This project will receive EUR
1,700. The "Elterninitiative Sterntaler e.V." association will be awarded
another EUR 1,600 for the "Pirate world" participation project, in which
the outdoor play area is to be redesigned and given a pirate theme. The
children can contribute their own wishes and ideas for this. The "Namaste
hip-hop - youth culture exchange" project of the "Förderverein Jugendhaus
Waldpforte" association will be supported to the tune of EUR 1,500. This
initiative aims to bring people together through hip-hop music, broadening
horizons and making a contribution to development aid. Children take on
responsibility for bees in the "Bee project" of the "Verein für Sozial- und
Kulturpädagogik" association, thus strengthening their social skills. The
project will receive EUR 1,000. Furthermore, the regional
"Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Selbsthilfegruppen" ("Working group of self-help
groups") organization in Mannheim will be sponsored with a sum of EUR
5,000. The key aim here is to support self-help groups which tackle social
isolation due to illness and stress.
In addition, Willis GmbH & Co. KG, the insurance broker of FUCHS, will once
again be donating EUR 5,000. The donation will go to the project "Neuro-
Kids Mannheim: the mission is possible!" run by the "Neurologisch erkrankte
Kinder Mannheim" association ("Neurologically ill children Mannheim").
Mannheim, October 26, 2016
FUCHS PETROLUB SE
Public Relations
Friesenheimer Str. 17
68169 Mannheim
Tel. +49 621 3802-1104
tina.vogel@fuchs-oil.de
www.fuchs.com/group
Further information on the FUCHS sponsorship award:
www.fuchs.com/fuchs-sponsorship-award
About FUCHS
The FUCHS Group develops, produces and markets high-grade lubri-cants and
related specialties for virtually all industries and areas of appli-cation.
The company, which was founded in Mannheim in 1931, employs around 5,000
people worldwide at 60 operating companies. FUCHS is the world's largest
independent lubricant manufacturer. The most important markets in terms of
sales revenues are Western Europe, Asia and North America.
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Language: English
Company: FUCHS PETROLUB SE
Friesenheimer Str. 17
68169 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 / 3802-0
Fax: +49 (0)621 / 3802-7190
E-mail: ir@fuchs-oil.de
Internet: www.fuchs-oil.de
ISIN: DE0005790430, DE0005790406
WKN: 579043, 579040
Indices: MDAX
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