For more than four decades, committed Gautingers from “Our Club” have been organizing parties, bus excursions and more for people with disabilities.
Almost everything fell flat in the Corona year.
The association chairwoman Lisa Zabolitzky is all the more pleased about a donation of 3000 euros from the Ippen Foundation.
Gauting - “With your amount of money we can - at least we hope - in the second
half of 2021
we can start
our wonderful parties again.
We're already looking forward to it today. ”With these words, Lisa Zabolitzky, chairwoman of“ Our Club ”in Gauting, thanks Merkur publisher Dr.
Dirk Ippen and his foundation for a donation of 3000 euros.
Because with her dedicated team, Zabolitzky wants to catch up on a lot of unusual things.
"This Corona year was not happy for us," regrets the 67-year-old.
Since March, the festivals for people with mental and physical disabilities have been canceled, she says.
On February 29th, “a huge birthday party with cakes baked by our 18 volunteers, small gifts and the appearance of a magician” just started.
One of the celebrations was Sandro's 18th birthday.
“We also celebrated Aunt Thea's 90th birthday,” says Zabolitzky.
Thea Schulze, who was beloved by her former friends and formerly a teacher at the Evangelical Kindergarten in Gauting, had already integrated a disabled boy into her group in the 1960s.
Back then, nobody spoke of inclusion.
It was precisely for this reason that Emma Jardin, who has since died and has a daughter with Down syndrome, founded “Our Club” with Heidi Daunderer in 1978.
The two Gautingen women met in their children's firm group.
That is why the Catholic parish hall was the association's event hall from the start.
“I don't have any children myself, but I would have loved to have some,” says Zabolitzky.
That's why she got involved with “Our Club” over three decades ago.
During this time, emotional relationships with the guests looked after also developed.
"If you deal with these people for longer, you no longer see the handicap, you look into the person's soul".
Lisa Zabolitzky enthuses that it is heartwarming for her.
She is sorry that the eleven integrative festivals, such as the joint dance with the Gautinger traditional costumes, fell victim to the pandemic.
The highlights are always the carnival ball with the Prinzengarde from Olching, the summer party with up to 140 guests and the Christmas party.
"But we lovingly accompanied our guests despite Corona." Most of the 90 or so people between the ages of 18 and 60 come from Gauting and Krailling.
"We were really happy about the donation", thanks Zabolitzky and says: "Our first party after the lockdown has to be a blast."