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Neighborhood help Warngau gets jump start

2020-05-19T05:14:33.147Z


Helpers who step in when things get stuck in everyday life: For this purpose, a neighborhood aid is founded in Warngau. The community gives financial start-up aid.


Helpers who step in when things get stuck in everyday life: For this purpose, a neighborhood aid is founded in Warngau. The community gives financial start-up aid.

Warngau - The initiative for a neighborhood aid in Warngau goes back to the general practitioner and Warngau Greens councilor Winfried Dresel. As a general practitioner, Dresel has always found that little things are often missing so that someone can stay at home in their familiar surroundings. For example, the fact that you can't go shopping yourself, even if it's only temporarily after an operation - as happened to a couple who finally received help from the Schaftlach-Waakirchen neighborhood aid. 

In the meantime, a lot has happened, Dresel reported in the municipal council, who approved the start-up aid with 2,000 euros: There were several meetings at which interested parties discussed how neighborhood aid can and should be organized. Dresel reported that they received important start-up aid from the ecumenical neighborhood aid in the neighboring parish of Holzkirchen. She has been working successfully for years and was able to give important tips from experience, as did the senior citizen representative of the district. In the end, the decision was made: A separate association was founded for the neighborhood aid in Warngau.

The founding assembly has now taken place, informed Dresel, whom the 14 founding members elected as chairman. "At the beginning of March we got the non-profit status recognized." After that, the new association actually wanted to go public and hold a meeting at which they wanted to see how the idea resonated with other citizens and which task profile the help in practice should get - but Corona sparked in between.

Neighborhood help Warngau wants to close gaps in the social network

The commitment of the existing prospective customers who want to help on a voluntary basis does not, of course, reduce that. Corona rather shows how valuable such a network of helpers is, stressed Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (FWG). The municipality gives start-up aid with 2000 euros, the municipal council recently decided.

Exactly which tasks the neighborhood helpers take on must also be shown by the actual need, explains Dresel. One thing is clear: neighborhood help will not compete with professional service providers. “It's about filling the gaps,” Dresel emphasizes.

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Initiator Winfried Dresel was elected chairman.

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"We are currently working on an Internet presence," said the chairman. An account for the association must be opened, liability insurance for the volunteers' assignments must be taken out, a mobile phone as a contact point and office supplies must be provided. 

Due to the Corona crisis, some regulations that were to be discussed at the public meeting could not yet be identified. For example, how the membership fee is to be structured: On the one hand, neighborhood aid needs a foundation. "But the volunteers shouldn't have to pay for their commitment," emphasizes Dresel. A lot of support has already been assured, for example from the Lions Club Miesbach-Holzkirchen. "But the goal is that we stand on our own two feet," emphasized Dresel. "Unless the need for support is so great that you need your own job like in Holzkirchen." 

If the association should dissolve one day, the start-up aid will also flow back to the community.

Katrin Hager

Source: merkur

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