For the eleventh successive year, NORRES Schlauchtechnik will support the Noah’s Ark children’s hospice in Gelsenkirchen with a Christmas donation. Ever since the Sponsors of Gelsenkirchen Children’s Hospice were first founded in summer 2001, Managing Director Burkhard Mollen has made a sizeable donation to the charity, which helps incurably ill children and youngsters with severe multiple disabilities. At the end of 2010, Rudolf Heib, the delighted Chairman of the Hospice Sponsors, was handed a cheque for €5000: “Noah’s Ark is planning major refurbishments in the next twelve months and the donation will come in very useful”. Noah’s Ark describes itself as a children’s hospice in the region and for the region. The Ark’s concept, which is the only one of its kind anywhere in Germany, defines two main functions: to offer a haven for incurably ill children and to act as a short-term care centre for youngsters with severe disabilities. The aim is to assist the families concerned by providing professional care and respite for children and teenagers in the Noah’s Ark centre.
“Noah’s Ark is a local institution with which we feel a close bond; by making a donation just before Christmas, we hope to improve the quality of life for both the children and their families”, Burkhard Mollen, Proprietor and Managing Director of NORRES Schlauchtechnik, explained a few minutes after presenting the cheque.
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(from left to right): Burkhard Mollen, Proprietor and Managing
Director of NORRES Schlauchtechnik; Tim; Rudolf Heib, Chairman of the
Sponsors of Gelsenkirchen Children’s Hospice