The two women from the neighborhood aid circuit 9 are the first, the ancestors in Kemptthal. Your packages are ready for Transport. You mean for about fifty people shortly before Easter a second Christmas.

“2 × Christmas” is the name of the fundraising campaign, call for the Swiss Red cross at the end of December. You is that people from all over the Switzerland packages with non-perishable food and hygiene items to send in. The first 3000 pre-packaged Coop are also distributed packages, which you can buy for 25 francs, and was able to donate. This week they will be distributed to the needy.

This is Fun: Volunteers sorting and picking the goods. Video: net

About thirty Volunteers sort and the of Bern the Canton of Zurich allocated to goods: Three trucks have pick yesterday, 103 pallets, shipped 42 tonnes. “A record amount”, as Barbara Schmid-says Federer. The CVP national councillor is the President of the SRC, Zurich.

“In previous years,” she tells, “we have also collected stuffed animals and the like, and distributed.” Then I realized that the receiver inside and the receiver much more enjoyment out of a Shampoo than a toy. “Because you need the Shampoo really. This has made me very concerned.”

Three pounds of advance works pasta

The Red cross in this campaign with about fifty different social institutions: neighborhood assistance, such as encountered, Church communities, women’s refuges, asylum help… This report how much and what goods you need for your families or single persons. “You fill out a kind poschti piece of paper,” says project Manager Susanne Bührer.

shows an example: A small neighborhood organization asks for three pounds of pasta, two pounds of rice, a Kilo of flour, two pounds of sugar, a litre of Oil, two kilos of chocolate, a litre of soap. Tea and cosmetics don’t have to be. From the distribution campaign, around 5000 adults, 400 young people, 700 children and 100 babies will benefit this year.

ready-to-röschti and Budget Oil

A strange smell hangs in the large, bright hall, in the boxes with the food and hygiene items to the camps. After Soup Cube? May be, because we are located in the former Maggi factory. The halls are a protected monument, and the whole area is currently being developed into a new commercial centre.

But at the Moment curves are Volunteers full of temperament between boxes of ready-to-röschti and Budget-Oil. It is rare that any expired or damaged products are received, says Susanne Bührer. Two Volunteers are just trying to, as many of the boxes toward each other to stack. The tower sways… and stops. Christ child playing is obviously Fun. (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)

Created: 19.03.2019, 15:30 PM