earthquake relief
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“A great interim result. The citizens of our town of Schwerte don’t leave people in need standing out in the rain,” commented Holger Hülsmeyer, chairman of the association “Schwerte hilft eV” on the receipt of the donation. 10,000 euros were donated within a week for earthquake victims in the Alevi-Kurdish disaster area after the appeal in the Ruhr News.
“Some swords spontaneously made large donations of 1,000 or 2,000 euros, others smaller sums. Everyone helps as he or she can,” explains Hülsmeyer. Together with the starting sum of the family doctor’s practice Spanke and the association “Schwerte hilft eV” it is already 13,000 euros.
use of donations
The money collected is currently being used to finance residential containers. At nighttime temperatures of minus 20 degrees, these are currently overcrowded by earthquake victims who lost everything in the catastrophe. Ceva Yilderim says that the money from Schwerte is mainly used in small towns where hardly any state aid has arrived so far.
The swordswoman Ceva Yilderim, who comes from the region, and her siblings had the idea for the relief campaign. She has been working in the Spanke general practice for over 30 years. Trusted local partners are the Kocgiri cultural associations from North Rhine-Westphalia, who help there on a voluntary basis with over 150 of their own helpers and heavy equipment.
Further donations are welcome
Schwerte hilft eV and the family doctor practice Spanke urgently ask for donations with the note ‘Erdbebenhilfe’ to the association’s account at Sparkasse Dortmund, IBAN DE18 4405 0199 0841 0154 10. Tax-relevant donation receipts will be issued.