Extreme rainfall devastated Germany.
Many people are left with nothing.
Several organizations have set up donation accounts to help.
Munich - Germany has been hit by violent storms and sometimes devastating floods in the past few days.
After primarily western Germany was affected, the storm also raged in Saxony and in southeast Bavaria at the weekend. * Quite a few people have lost all their belongings.
The clean-up will take a long time and involve great effort.
Here is a selection of donation accounts you can use to help those who have been damaged by this disaster:
Action Alliance for Disaster Relief
The Action Alliance for Disaster Relief is an amalgamation of Caritas International, unicef, the German Red Cross and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe.
The donations can either be paid online here or transferred to the following account with the subject “Flood Aid Germany”:
Recipient
: Aktionbündnis
Katastrophenhilfe
IBAN: DE65 1004 0060 0100 4006 00
BIC: COEADEFFXXX
Action Germany helps
"Action Germany helps" is an alliance of various German aid organizations.
Donations can either be made online directly on the organization's website or with the keyword “Flood Germany” to the following account:
Recipient: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
IBAN: DE62 3702 0500 0000 1020 30
BIC: BFSWDE33XXX
State of Rhineland-Palatinate
The State of Rhineland-Palatinate has set up a donation account for the particularly affected areas.
Using the keyword “Disaster Aid Flood”, donations can be transferred to the following account at Sparkasse Mainz:
Recipient: Landeshauptkasse Mainz
IBAN: DE78 5505 0120 0200 3006 06
BIC: MALADE51MNZ
Technical relief organization
The technical relief organization has set up a donation account to collect for the equipment of the employees as well as the help on site. Here, too, you can either donate online on the THW Foundation website, or transfer the desired amount to the following account with the purpose "Flood Germany":
Receiver: THW Foundation
IBAN: DE03 3705 0198 1900 4433 73
BIC: COLSDE33XXX
Deutsche Lebensrettungsgesellschaft (DLRG)
Also at the DLRG, donations can be made for urgently needed equipment and aids for the flood helpers who work day and night in the various local groups.
You can either donate online on the DLRG website or transfer a donation to the following account:
Recipient: DLRG
IBAN: DE87 2501 0030 0660 0003 05
BIC: PBNKDEFF250
The portal
24rhein.de *
has published an overview of various local donation
accounts
that have been set up for the particularly affected regions such as the Euskirchen district, Rhein-Sieg district, Rhein-Erft district, the city of Erftstadt and the district of Heinsberg.
* Merkur.de and 24rhein.de are offered by IPPEN.MEDIA
