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Summary of projects supported so far
Since 2008 the Bayer Cares Foundation has been supporting charity projects in the communities near the company’s sites with annual funding of up to EUR 150,000 in the context of its volunteerism program. To date a total of 28 projects have been admitted to the program, representing total funding in excess of EUR 100,000.
List of sponsored projects (alphabetical):
Basic course in nordic walking for the disabled
Wilhelm-Hendrik Lauritsch, employee at Bayer MaterialScience in Uerdingen, has started a basic course in nordic walking for disabled people. After successful completion of the course the participants should be able to join the group of non-disabled walkers. Total funding: EUR 3,400
Bicycle repair classes and bike tours for children and young people
Ulrich Schmalstieg, a technician at Bayer Technology Services in Leverkusen, is a cycling enthusiast. In his free time, he helps children and young people who are members of the "Schöne Aussicht" youth and citizens’ center to service and repair their bikes and he organizes group rides. Total funding: EUR 1,600
Building a competence network of finance coaches
The Bayer foundation supports Wilhelm Schlüter, who is working with other project partners to train "finance coaches" in Leverkusen. With the funds, the team is building a competence network to further improve financial consulting services. Total funding: EUR 3,000
„Class sponsorship" at the Yorckstrasse Elementary School in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Former Bayer AG employee Christel Lettner became a “class sponsor” in 2004. Twice a week, parallel to classwork, she specifically tutors children who are having trouble with the subject matter. Books and learning materials for instruction in the class are purchased with the help of the support money. Total funding: around EUR 500
Conflict mediators at elementary schools
Achim Schwarte, a Bayer retiree who also served on the works council, volunteers as a conflict mediator at the St. Peter-Schule Rosellen Collective Elementary School. His goal is to train the young people in conflict management and social skills and thus relieve the burden on teachers. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Construction of an adventure playground in Weimar-Schöndorf
The foundation is supporting the construction of an adventure playground on the premises of the “Café Conti” youth club in Weimar-Schöndorf. Volunteer Michael Kasper launched the construction project which he is implementing in his spare time together with other volunteers. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Construction of a waterscape
The foundation is supporting Dr. Jörg Christmann in his voluntary project for the Dormagen Outdoor Preschool. The funds are being used to finance a water experiment area. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Consulting center for disabled persons
With the help of the funding provided by the foundation, Petra Rossdeutscher founded a consulting center in Bergisch Gladbach to support families with disabled children in everyday matters. Through a specially established society, she fields a wide range of inquiries from those affected. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Contact point for people suffering from addictions
Currenta employee Rolf Janyga uses the funding provided by the Bayer foundation to provide a contact point in Leverkusen for people suffering from addictions and their family members. Janyga volunteers at an anti-dependency society and also works professionally as an addiction and social therapist. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Container-style kitchen for youth vacation programs in France
Jörg-Ernst Esser, a weighing systems engineer and member of the Works Council at Tectrion, a subsidiary of Currenta, has worked with a team of helpers to set up a container-style kitchen at his club's own St. Antonius Campgrounds in St. Julien de Peyrolas, near Avignon, France. Every year, over 330 children and young people from the Leverkusen area enjoy the vacation and youth programs offered by the St. Antonius e.V. club, based in Leverkusen. The club's youth program also enables socially disadvantaged children and young people to participate in the vacation events. Total funding: EUR 4,000
Elementary school students at Dierath Community Elementary School experience the fascination of the natural sciences
To show children how much fun scientific phenomena can be, qualified Bayer chemist Dr. Peter Michael Lange carries out experiments together with the students of Dierath Community Elementary School. Total funding: EUR 2,000
Expansion of the schoolyard at the Kromsdorf / Denstedt Elementary School
The foundation supports the volunteer efforts of the “Friends and Supporters of Kromsdorf/Denstedt Elementary School Society” near Weimar. Volunteer René Woithe, who works for Bayer at the Weimar site, helped to redesign the schoolyard. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Further training initiative for teachers “Practical Chemical Tuition” (LNCU)
The three founders of “Practical Chemical Tuition” (LNCU), a voluntary further training initiative for teachers, Gregor von Borstel, teacher at the Alexander-von-Humboldt High School in Bornheim, Andreas Böhm from the Peter-Joerres High School in Ahrweiler and Manfred Eusterholz from Hennef High School, have set themselves the goal of supporting colleagues at all types of schools in the organization of vivid and hands-on chemical tuition. The funds made available have equipped 30 schools from Leverkusen, Bergisch-Gladbach and Cologne with experimental materials. Total funding: EUR 15,000
Hobby beekeepers get schoolchildren interested in their work
René Poloczek, an education major in biology and chemistry from Aachen, and Heike Maniatis, a chemistry lab technician at Currenta, are hobby beekeepers who visit Marienschule High School in Leverkusen-Opladen every week to teach students there about the importance of honeybees and beekeeping. Total funding: EUR 450
Homework tutoring and application training for schoolchildren
Cemile Karagöz works at Bayer MaterialScience and oversees the “Economics and School” project in Dormagen. Together with other volunteers, she helps socially and learning disadvantaged high school students to earn their school diploma and find a vocational training placement. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Homework tutoring for youngsters with a migration background
Together with other volunteers, Jannis Goudoulakis established an initiative aimed at providing qualified homework tutoring in Leverkusen specifically to schoolchildren with a migration background. Total funding: EUR 4,900
Job search training and internships for school students
Cemile Karagöz and other volunteers are helping socially and learning disadvantaged students in junior high and secondary modern schools to earn their diploma and find vocational training positions. Cemile Karagöz tutors students, organizes job application training courses and finds internships for the young people in order to facilitate their transition to job and career. Total funding: EUR 3,000
„KlexSe" - Scientific experiments for pre-school children
Bernd Setzer, former head of vocational training at Bayer in Leverkusen, organizes visits by so-called “senior experts” in Leverkusen and the surrounding area. These retired experts travel to daycare centers, pre-schools and elementary schools to demonstrate age-appropriate scientific experiments to the children. Total funding: EUR 3,200
„Mikado" pre-school in Bergkamen
Bayer Schering Pharma employee Sven Stein, who works 24-hour-shifts as a fireman, also volunteers at his child’s pre-school. The money provided by Bayer is used to purchase experiment sets, microscopes, measuring beakers and test tubes in order to awaken the children’s curiosity about science. Total funding: EUR 2,000
„New forms of prevention: Art and medicine
Retired doctor Helmut Hoffmann gvies young school children a basic knowledge of their bodies and the way their senses function through the medium of art. He teaches infants at the Vineta Elementary School in the Wedding district of Berlin about the five senses – hearing, touch, taste, sight and smell – and then asks them to produce paintings on this subject. Total funding: EUR 1,000
Open-air theater “Freilichtbühne Werne”
In his spare time, Uwe Wittenberg, who works at Bayer Schering Pharma, looks after the technology side of the open-air theater “Freilichtbühne Werne” and is responsible for lighting, sound and special effects. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Playground expansion in Bitterfeld
Bayer Bitterfeld GmbH employee Dr. Alexander Karwort initiated the pre-school project supported by the Bayer foundation. In his free time, he works with other volunteers on the expansion of the playground at the St. Josef Catholic Daycare Center in Bitterfeld to include a jungle path. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Preserving the Castle Berge ruins as a historical site in Altenberg
Manfred Link, former department manager at Drugofa, a subsidiary of Bayer Vital in Köln-Mülheim, is active in the preservation of historic monuments in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district. He manages all aspects of caring for and preserving natural and historical monuments, such as castles, circular ramparts, quarries, old trade routes and mills. Total funding: EUR 3,500
Reuschenberg Cemetery meeting place
Pastor Hubert Böke initiated a meeting place for the Protestant church district at Reuschenberg Cemetery where mourners can talk with trained volunteers. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Sailing school – for tolerance, against violence
The donation from Bayer assists the pilot project entitled “Sailing school – for tolerance, against violence” in the Bitterfeld-Wolfen region. Volunteer Margret Oehne, who teaches German, Russian, English and social studies at a vocational school in Bitterfeld, initiated the project to strengthen the young people’s sense of community. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Training of financial coaches for families
Walter Peffgen works with project partners to train so-called “financial coaches” in Leverkusen. These coaches volunteer their time to advise families threatened by over-indebtedness. Total funding: EUR 5,000
Training of kitchen personnel at a children's home in Nicaragua
Gunter Huber, former kitchen director at the Bayer AG guest cafeteria in Dormagen, used the funding provided by the foundation to help a children’s home in Nicaragua. Huber trained the cafeteria kitchen employees in the areas of food preparation, hygiene and kitchen appliance maintenance. Total funding: EUR 3,000
Water playground for the "Rhine Pirates"
A group of Bayer employees, including Dr. Michael Baum, Renate Block, Agnes Martin and Carmen Barnes-Ruiz, and one former employee, Dr. Jochen Kalbe, are building a water area for play and experimentation at "Rhine Pirates" preschool in Leverkusen-Hitdorf. Total funding: EUR 4,850
Wuppertal Children’s Cancer Society initiative
With the aid of the donation, Michael Römer is organizing convalescent leave for a total of nine families and their ill children. The technical assistant at Bayer HealthCare in Wuppertal has already initiated many projects for affected families.Total funding: EUR 5,000
Wuppertal Children's Cancer Society Initiative
Bayer HealthCare technician Michael Römer is active in the Wuppertal Children’s Cancer Society initiative. With the help of the donation from Bayer, he organized a leisure weekend for 70 children and parents in the Eifel region of Germany. Total funding: EUR 5,000
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