Thank you for 111 years: Nordmann's charity work
As part of our 111 years campaign and in the best Nordmann spirit, we would like to give something back and doing something for the community. There are various initiatives, for example Nordmann donates 111 working hours for charity work.
111 self-made toys donated for children in Romania
Nordmann AT Group colleagues are taking Nordmanns 111 years campaign literally. Last week (6-8 October) the colleagues of Nordmann AT Group (Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania) met for their annual budget meeting in Sibiu, Romania. Not only did they debate sales and contribution margins, but they also worked for charity. In a joint workshop, all colleagues had fun and were creative in crafting 111 toys that will benefit a local non-profit organization. The organization helps children and families, with difficult family backgrounds or problems. Well done and many thanks to all who participated.
Nordmann Management Teams donates 111 hours for charity
During Nordmann's Gobal Sales and Markting meeting in June 2023 in Warsaw, the Nordmann management team was engaged in a good cause on an afternoon. The colleagues spent an entire afternoon helping to prepare a social therapy day-care centre in the Prague district of Warsaw for the children to move in. This local initiative benefits children with difficult family backgrounds or from foster families.It is meant to be a place of learning, but also of being a carefree child. It was a special matter for the Nordmann colleagues and everyone was enthusiastic and gave their best.
For 4 hours everyone dug, mowed, planted, painted and built. Enclosed are a few impressions. Now we are looking forward to seeing how the children like it. We will get back to you with impressions of the opening.
Knitting for those in need
Laura Wilber, Training & Translation at Nordmann Hamburg:
"The charity I was supporting is called Sträkelclub am Basch, a small local organization in Hamburg that makes and distributes knitted and crocheted items to those in need through the Hamburger Tafel – and although I’m very familiar with charities such as this (I started knitting and crocheting items for charity nearly 15 years ago), I only just found out about this one Monday.
The Sträkelclub has regular meet-ups in Barmbek on the first and third Fridays of every month, where supporters can knit and crochet together, pick up donated yarn to make new items with, drop off finished items, etc. This past Wednesday morning, however, they had a meet-up scheduled at the welfare center in Barmbek (ASB Sozialstation Barmbek), and that’s where I connected with the group for the first time. I spoke there with the organizer and a few of the group’s regular supporters while sipping coffee and working on different projects together; I sat between a woman who likes to crochet hats, for example, and another who primarily knits socks. The organizer herself was crocheting a lacy summer scarf, and I cast on a pair of fingerless gloves with some yarn I’d brought along with me from my scrap-basket. While I was there, the organizer insisted on me taking home some of the donated yarn – so I snapped up several brand-new skeins of colorful wool to knit a striped pullover with. I hope to be able to finish and donate both before the summer is over! By the way, the whole group was excited to hear about the company and this new campaign – they thought it was really great!"
Laura Wilber, Training & Translation at Nordmann Hamburg (second from the right), at Sträkelclub.
