We can all look back on an eventful and also challenging year. The Corona pandemic affected many areas of our lives and made daily life, social networks, and being recognized harder for many people, communities, and organizations. That’s why we had again been looking for fantastic charity organizations that we can support that year. Here are the ones that we donated to at the end of last year.
Hand zu Hand e.V.
One of our donations went to Hand zu Hand e.V. on the occasion of the International Day of Sign Language 2021 on September 23, to support their upcoming game events like “Spielen für Toleranz” (Playing for Tolerance).
The non-profit organization Hand zu Hand e.V. offers free and sign language psychosocial counseling and therapy for deaf and hearing-impaired people in crisis. Affected people can approach the association on various topics. Also, counseling work for families, e.g., for Children of deaf adults (CODA), or deaf children of hearing parents is of high importance. Furthermore, a psychosocial counseling service for deaf refugees has been established. In addition to the counseling core business, Hand zu Hand e.V. is also very active in educating, holding workshops and providing information. They also conduct several game events, where people can get access to the community, make new contacts, and find friends for life.
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As a gaming company we embrace our competitive spirit and that's why we created a walking and running challenge in October. The goal was to cover as many steps as possible by walking or running, to integrate more exercise into our daily life and ultimately have fun! We formed two teams to compete against each other, but everyone still had to work together to unlock the donation amount. The more steps, the more we donated. The winning team chose the organization that we donated to and on top of that, they received a team lunch. We decided to donate to:
"Make-a-Wish" Christmas present
Like every year, we offer our team to make a charitable donation instead of receiving Christmas presents. We call this “Make-a-Wish” and our team members can choose to either donate to an organization or receive a voucher for a local and sustainable shop. The collected donations went to the following initiatives:
Friends4Future e.V.
For the Christmas and fourth quarterly donation in 2021, the Green Team decided that we will support Friends4Future.
The organization was founded in order to take more responsibility for saving our planet and to have a positive impact on all levels of society and in all organizational models. The protests of Fridays-for-Future have touched the founding members of Friends4Future humanely and moved them emotionally. Therefore, Friends4Future e.V. developed a social board game that is playable across generations. It works as a tool where people help each other to become solution-oriented and gain awareness for climate change.
We definitely wanted to support their “Project Future”. You too?
Photo 1 & 3: © Friends4Future e. V.
Photo 2: © Hand zu Hand e.V.
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