Annual report 2014

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to support ...

... people in need through no fault of their own

Annual report 2014

“We cannot fight against the night, but we can kindle a light."

This saying from Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), the founder off the Franciscan Order, can be taken in more than a figurative sense. It has also guided, in the literal sense, the work of our foundation since its founding in the year 2010 and will continue to guide our work in the years to come.

Since our foundation was created, people in search of help have come to us.

People who do not see a way out of their hardship alone. We want to give these people a beacon of light with the support we provide. Together with institutions like Caritas, Diakonie, the Wohlfahrtsverbänden (collection of charities) as well as other charitable institutions, we hope to be able to create new direction and hope in the lives of those seeking aid.

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In so doing, we participated in the warning and companion dog for epilepsy for nine year old

Image: Mikail Erfurt

training of a therapy

JĂźlide. The collie puppy Conner will train for two years for his important task. Just in his first nine months, he is already able to retrieve items, remove socks and gloves, take out the laundry, open doors and drawers and carry out search requests. At the end of his training, he will be able to push wheelchairs, as well as smell an epileptic fit hours beforehand and get help on his own.

The Foundation was also a beacon of light for a family from Greece.

A young mother of three children fell ill with thyroid cancer. We were able to assume the costs of the numerous therapy regimens required at the University Hospital Freiburg.

This year, our great concern was support for hospices, children’s hospices, and grief counseling for children and parents. For example, the “Wünschewagen” (wish wagon) fulfilled the last wish of severely ill patients with reduced life expectancies. One last, quiet and conscious journey in search of themselves - to an important location in their past - is just as important here as organizing one last big family trip.

We would like to express our deepest respect for all of our employees who stood fondly by the families, providing human attention and care in their worst hours.

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Moreover, we are also happy to support Cologne’s hospital clowns. They win the hearts of young patients in pediatric wards and of residents in nursing homes and provide a sense of trust and zest for life with their cheery gestures.

Laughing with the clowns means a distraction from the pain, fear and feelings of homesickness and brings a little fun and joy into their lives in these health care facilities, supporting the healing process in a big way.

As shown in a recent study, the division in Germany between the poor and rich is increasing more and more. For some people, basic nutrition is a luxury. We see this in increasing requests to support breakfast and lunch offerings for needy people, for whom this meal is sometimes the only meal in the day.

But our Foundation is also engaged in physical activity for the disabled.

For instance, we were able to provide two special sport wheelchairs for a wheelchair basketball. What’s more, in cooperation with other sponsors, the teams are now almost complete and the games will start in 2015.

In 2013, the Foundation was able to provide 52 new projects. As in previous years, the groups “Mobile mit Behinderung e.V.” (Mobile Club with Disability) as well as “Straßenkinder Berlin e.V.” (Street Children of Berlin) were promoted as “godparents”. Moreover, other needs were provided for, including: • Handicap accessible conversion work (ramps, kitchen, bathroom,

children’s room)

• Grants for warm clothing, kitchen appliances, washing machines,

electric stoves, eyeglasses, dentures

• Support for breakfast and lunch for children and adolescents • Learning activities, recreational activities for people with neuromuscular disease • Radioiodine therapy (thyroid cancer) • Support for the project “Fördermittelplattform für Studierende mit

Behinderung” (means of conveyance for students with disability)

• Grant for a heart operation • Christmas donations for needy people

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• Support of a theater performance for disadvantaged children • Wheelchair excursions • Improved education chances for children from socially deprived areas • Repeated support of “SOLWODI e.V.” In 2014 (as of December 17th), the Foundation was able to provide 65 new projects. Continued sponsorship for the groups “Mobil mit Behinderung e.V.” as well as “Straßenkinder Berlin e.V.“ was also promoted. The following is a selection of additional sponsorships: • Handicap accessible conversion work (ramps, kitchen, bathroom,

children’s room, stairs lifts)

• Grants for warm clothing, kitchen appliances, washing machines,

electric stoves, eyeglasses, dentures, electronic tricycles

• Support for breakfast and lunch for children and adolescents • “Suppe und Seele” (soup and soul), lunch and care for the needy • Radioiodine therapy (thyroid cancer) • Aid for children in South Africa

• Training a seeing-eye dog • Christmas donations for needy people • Integration assistance • Outreach social work • Children’s health ward • “Wünschewagen” (wish wagon) • Hospital clowns • Sport wheelchairs for basketball team • Grief counseling for children and parents • Retirement and nursing homes • Cancer treatment • Assisted living • Support for the project “AMPU KIDS”, children with amputations

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2013 projects

2014 projects*

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€94,718

€137,147

* until 12.17.2014 — for the time being —

2013 donations

2014 donations*

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€538,332

* until 12.17.2014 — for the time being —

€16,900

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The group “Mobil mit Behinderung e.V.� thanks the Ernst Prost Foundation for the fantastic support and cooperation that gave many people a happier life.

We also hope to continue working together with this foundation in order to unburden the lives of the many people we touch.

Many thanks for your help!

Short report on the “Bildungstankstelle im Kinderund Jugendhaus BOLLE” (Learning Station at the BOLLE Children and Youth Center) For over 14 years, Straßenkinder Berlin e.V. has helped young people to get off the streets. In order to open children and youths up to better chances for an independent future, this group opened the “Kinder- und Jugendhaus BOLLE” in Berlin-Marzahn in 2010 and offers various recreational and learning activities to combat child and learning poverty.

Through the support of the ERNST PROST FOUNDATION, the “learning station”

Image: Dominik Buchardt

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project became an important component of the BOLLE Children and Youth Center. Every week, 80 to 110 children aged 6 - 11 years old benefit from homework assistance and private tutoring support, giving them the chance to determine their own future.

All of the children and youths are deeply thankful for the continued support of the ERNST PROST FOUNDATION for this project, because the donations in previous years have changed a lot in the lives of these children.

Image: StraĂ&#x;enkinder e.V.

Image: Peter Himsel

Image: Straßenkinder e.V.

Image: Straßenkinder e.V.

Image: Straßenkinder e.V.

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“Dear Ernst Prost Foundation, I would like to thank you very much for your support. You were a great help to me! I am very glad that there are people and institutions that help poor and sick people. – My thanks also to Pastor O. who told you about my difficult situation. Many sincere thanks and God bless you.”

Ms. W. with daughter “I was very glad when your letter arrived promising to help. I didn't think that anyone would help me. I haven't really received much help so far. Which is why I was very surprised that someone would help me. Since then ... I am much better. I wanted to thank you and wish you all the best.”

Mr. P from Munich “... I am very thankful to you for the daycare costs you took on, especially in the name of my mother. By taking on these costs, I was able to complete the 9th grade successfully, despite my disability. Thank you very much!!!”

Fam. W. Aschau

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“Thank you very much for your help! I am very touched that you helped me and us along this difficult path! I hope that I can give something “back” sometime!”

Ms. S. “A small boy says THANKS! Many, many thanks for your support for our disabled foster son, N. Thank you for giving us the chance to nurture and help N. even more. All the very best!”

Foster parents and N. “This is A.D. from Brest (Republic of Belarus) with regards to the assistance provided for my care in Germany. In these difficult times, when more and more people appear who need our help and care, it is difficult to find people to take on a stranger's problems like their own. And it is very good that such people exist. I would like to express my deepest thanks. Your warm hearts, generosity and understanding make life better. Your good deeds will come back to you. I would like to express my deepest thanks again, and would like to wish you and yours good health, luck and all the success and satisfaction in your charity! May your strength and energy never waver and all of your ideas be fulfilled! Many thanks. With sincere thanks and respect.”

“The esteemed Mrs. Thiele, dear team, you are people with heart. We would like to extend a sincere and huge thanks for your spontaneous, excellent and generous support and a giant thanks for your trust. We were simply overwhelmed with your quick reaction and very touched by your excellent, human gesture in saving us during our difficult situation in an especially personal manner. You have made us stronger for whatever comes next.”

Ms. P. from S. “Dear Mrs. Thiele, ladies and gentleman, after a long wait, my husband has received his handicapped accessible electric tricycle. We are very happy and very thankful to you and all of the caring people who look beyond themselves, as healthy people, and have not forgotten the needy of this society.”

Mrs. S. from N.

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“We are very thankful for your support!”

Yours, Ernst Prost and Kerstin Thiele