Action for the neighborhood
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“A light for you!”
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Many young helpers were active in making Christmas light decorations, which are now being distributed in the neighborhood.
Photo: Martina Heinz
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Wuppertal The pre-Christmas campaign of the “DemokratieWerkstatt”, which the “Börse” carries out in cooperation with the State Center for Political Education in North Rhine-Westphalia, has a lot of support in the neighborhood.
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Short days, sinking temperatures and growing loneliness due to Corona – with “A light for you!” The “Democracy Workshop Hesselnberg-Südstadt” would like to brighten up the dark season, especially for the people in the neighboring quarters of the “börse” who are affected by Corona are particularly isolated.
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“We only found open doors,” said Karin Böke, pleased about the willingness to participate in the campaign. In the “börse” she runs the neighborhood forum of the “DemokratieWerkstatt” together with Lothar Jessen.
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Young hands are currently busy making colorful tealight decorations in the primary schools in Hesselnberg and Distelbeck, at the CVJM Adlerbrücke and in the daycare centers in Distelbeck and Wormser Straße. The pretty light creations will soon be distributed with a personal greeting to mostly single, elderly and mobility-restricted people from the neighborhood.
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The district services of the Wichernhaus and the International Federation, the help shop and the mobile care service of the Diakonie act as “lights”. They pass on the small works to the people they look after. A small gesture in the dark season that wants to bring the generations together. “We would like to encourage more attention for one another and intergenerational contacts,” says Karin Böke: This way, the recipients have the opportunity to say thank you with an attached reply card.
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Karin Böke continues: “We would like to continue to motivate and support these and other neighborhood actions in the future and beyond the Corona crisis.” With “we” is meant the “Forum Hesselnberg-Südstadt der DemokratieWerkstatt”, which also includes this Idea for more togetherness in the quarters was developed.
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Interested parties are cordially invited to the meetings, which take place once a month on a Wednesday.
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