Sponsoring
In addition to the development and construction of special-purpose machines, HENKEL + ROTH is also promoting a number of projects in the fields of humanitarian aid, culture. innovation and sports. Every of these different projects will be presented briefly below:
| Children's Fund Global-Care
| The Global-Care children's fund was founded in 1976. Its aim is to provide humanitarian aid especially to children. We are participating in this aid by assuming 36 partnerships with children. This kind of help involves personal support for a child and its family in a Third World country. This means that children in need are provided with everything required for their livelihoods like food, clothing, medical care, school and vocational training until they can stand on their own feet. Many small and big projects shall contribute to give back dignity to poor people, and create opportunities for them to take care of themselves. Such help may include the following: - Drill a new water well for people and animals, and for irrigating crops
- Set up a small workshop for handmade bulbs
- Purchase and operate brickworks
- Keep up rice paddies and many other projects
- Due to the high number of illiterate people, a programme for adult education is also included.
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| | INTERPLAST Germany e.V. | INTERPLAST Germany e.V. is a non-profit association for providing free plastic surgery in Third World countries like Pakistan, Cameroun, Sikkim, India, Guatemala, and Tanzania. The prime target is to provide surgery to children and very poor people who cannot afford the medical treatment of their illnesses. Between 1980 and 1998, Interplast Germany carried out 261 surgery missions, taking care of approximately 25,000 patients worldwide. These activities focused on surgery to correct face and hand deformities, cleft lips, jaws and palates, severe burn scars causing functional limitations, soft part tumors, or mine and shooting injuries.
For this international aid work, INTERPLAST Germany e.V. was awarded the Charity-Bambi prize in 2002. These missions are coordinated between the German Foreign Office, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and various non-governmental organisations (NGO) like Help, AWD-Kinderhilfe, Noma e.V., and the health authorities in the corresponding countries.
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| | RoboCup Ilmenau | Dynamo Ilmenau is the own RoboCup Team run by Ilmenau Technical University, and sponsored by Henkel+ROTH. RoboCup is a soccer world championship organized once a year for autonomous robots and software agents. The team of Dynamo Ilmenau is involved in the development of soccer robots for the so-called SmallSize division which is also known as F180 division. Every team consists of 5 robots with a maximum footprint of 180 cm². The outside dimensions of every robot must not exceed a perimeter of 18 cm. A table tennis board is used for the games, and the goals are 30 cm wide. The football pitch is monitored using a central camera. A software system detects the positions of every robot, and an orange golf ball used to play the game. This software system also calculates the optimum game tactics, and gives motion instructions to the robots via radio or infrared.
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| Sankt Jakobus Cultural and Meeting Centre, Ilmenau
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| | Francis of Assisi School, Ilmenau | The school's overall concept is oriented towards ensuring the continuous and sustained personality development of young people through a coherent educational approach for a minimum period of 10 years. This approach is based on the development of individual creativity, shared responsibility and environmentally friendly action.
The fundamental aim is provide an opportunity for children to live and learn at school while developing their creativity, a sense of common responsibility and ecological awareness .
Recognizing every child's individual and original character is one of the top principles underlying this concept. Children who display behavioural or educational problems may and even should be taught at this integrative establishment as far as its possibilities allow. The priority is not to select the best, but rather to promote all children on an individual basis.
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| Christoffel und Blindenmission, Cologne (a religious ministry for the blind)
| Christoffel-Blindenmission is a Christian organisation for development aid which is active at an international level with the mission of providing assistance to blind and other handicapped people irrespectively of their nationality, gender or religious belief.
The ministry's name goes back to its founder Pastor Ernst Jakob Christoffel, who went to Turkey in 1908 in order to help blind or other handicapped children. The organisation provided medical assistance to approximately 10 million patients. CBM's activities focus on preventing and curing blindness. In the past year alone, CBM carried out examinations or provided treatment and, if necessary, even surgery to more than 12 million patients. The main cause for surgery were cataract diseases: Cloudy lenses have been removed in 600,000 cases in CBM sponsored hospitals. So-called cataract lenses or artificial lenses enable patients to see again after such surgery.
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