Ulrike Wachter from the Biberach Homeless Aid Association was happy to receive a check for 5,000 euros. With the donation from the Humanaktiv Association, the aid organization of the New Apostolic Church in Southern Germany, a kind of Internet café is to be created in the rooms of the Biberach Association. During the symbolic handing over of the donation check, Ulrike Wachter led through the rooms of the homeless help, which offers advice and refuge to the resident and homeless.
“What is normal for many of us, should also be possible for our clients of the homeless”, Wachter wanted for some time, “access to a computer and courses to learn how to use it properly”. Even if the focus is on helping people cope with everyday digital life: “We should also be able to just surf the Internet like that,” says Wachter. Up to now, however, there has not been enough money to equip one of the rooms in the homeless assistance building as an internet café.
The joy about the financial support of the project “Digital Participation in Everyday Life” was therefore great. The donation should not only be used to buy three new computers, but also an offer to learn how to use them properly. The pandemic has also dramatically changed the everyday lives of those who are socially weak, poor and homeless. Advice, looking for accommodation, dealing with authorities or applications are all offered online. So that the new requirements do not become another, insurmountable hurdle, the project “Support offers for everyday digital life” aims to make people competent. The aim is to break the cycle of social exclusion and poverty and to enable an independent life.
“With the donation, we want to send a message of active charity,” says Frank Bolz, head of the Ulm church district. The aid organization of the New Apostolic Church in Southern Germany pursues exclusively and directly charitable and benevolent purposes at home and abroad.
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