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21.7.2009 - ASB sends more volunteers to South Africa in summer
For almost one year now two young women from Germany have been supporting the work of the Relebohile Daycare Centre in South Africa, which is financed by the ASB. The Federation has now been able to choose two more volunteers, who will be working as of August for one year in the facility located in the Township Tumahole.
20.7.2009 - In the line of duty for the weakest - Two volunteers from Germany report on their experience with the project for orphans in South Africa run by ASB Herne and Gelsenkirchen
Since last autumn two young women from Germany are working at the Relebohile Daycare Center under the publicly funded volunteer programme “weltwärts”.ASB Regional Confederation Herne-Gelsenkirchen e.V has been funding for many years the project for orphans in South Africa. Please have a look at the following experience report by both volunteers:
25.3.2009 - "Too Young to let go”
The German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt and the television presenter Werner Hansch in a personal dialogue at the 2009 fireside chat organised by the ASB Academy Foundation Knowledge and Education in Schloss Strünkede. It was a very interesting evening for the approximately 50 invited guests.
8.3.2009 - About a Nursing Care Visit in Herne: Care Professionals and ASB Representatives from Ukraine Pay Welfare Organisations in Herne a Visit
A five-member delegation from Ukraine has sat in on care facilities in Herne, in order to take some ideas to their home country regarding the work with the elderly. Care professionals, a doctor, the Manager of the municipal home for senior citizens of the City Luzk as well as representatives of ASB welfare organisations in Luzk and Tscherniwzi were present.
17.1.2009 - Ulla Schmidt and Werner Hansch at ASB fireside chat in 2009
After a successful start the ASB Academy Foundation Knowledge & Education will continue its series of fireside chats this spring. In this year the discussion will be about an interesting topic aloof from the current political agenda: The generation of future pensioners has new and individual ideas about life in later years and activities after their working life.
7.12.2008 - Support for Football World Cup 2010 – ASB informs South African Delegation about emergency rescue services
At invitation of the Ministry for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Integration of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia a Delegation from the South African region Mpumalanga had just been to Germany in order to receive some information on, among other things, the World Cup 2006 emergency concepts. In the football stadium in Gelsenkirchen the professional fire brigade and the ASB gave an account of their cooperation at that time.
13.10.2008 - Bronze, Silver and Gold – Thanks to ASB-Support Firefighter from Herne comes off well at the World-Firefighter-Games
Carsten Metzlaff, a firefighter from Herne, returned with a full set of medals from the World-Firefighter-Games in Liverpool. The ASB Regional Confederation Herne-Gelsenkirchen had supported him in his successful hunt for bronze, silver and gold. Now the chief fire officer personally visited the ASB branch office in order to present the splendid trophies.
6.10.2008 - Achieving new learning targets with your "rucksack" - ASB supports a successful education project for migrant women
Thanks to Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund the City Herne was able to expand its successful project called "rucksack" in the previous school year. That project allows mothers with migratory background whose children are enrolled in Kindergarten to learn German together with their children.
The new rucksack year 2008/09 will start after the autumn holidays and will be again promoted by ASB Regional Confederation Herne-Gelsenkirchen e. V. .
5.10.2008 - Working together for a lively cultural landscape in Herne – Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and Cultural Office start a cooperation
Albert Okoniewski, the ASB Managing Director, and Peter Weber, the Director of the Cultural Office of the City Herne, have announced the beginning of an extraordinary cooperation: The Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund is sponsoring a series of shows and plays in the cultural centre and it will make many members, relatives and staff happy given the large number of tickets it has available.
24.8.2008 - ASB-OpenAir-Cinema Evening a great success – About 400 People in Castle Courtyard Strünkede
“The bucket list“ is a list of things to be accomplished by the main characters played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson before they kick the bucket. This film was chosen by ASB Regional Confederation Herne-Gelsenkirchen e.V. for this year’s OpenAir cinema evening in the picturesque courtyard of castle Strünkede. This was rewarded with an almost full castle courtyard. About 400 people enjoyed the unexpected summer weather and spent an evening that went by in no time.
In order to shorten the waiting time for the visitors of the OpenAir cinema evening ASB invited with a wink to play a typical American senior citizens’ game: numerous different prizes were won while playing bingo – from a coffee grinder to a voucher for a 10-persons-buffet provided by the ASB in-house catering service.
This was the second OpenAir cinema evening in castle Strünkede organised by Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and Filmwelt Herne and it is the result of a continuous and successful cooperation. About 150 mostly older cinemagoers are coming every fortnight to the film showing in the cinema café, where the visitors are invited to stay for a coffee after the film.
