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City youth council on flood relief mission

2021-08-25T09:51:45.484Z


Hannah Füner, Vroni Droth and Benedikt Bucher usually work for the youth as members of the city youth council. After the flood disaster in western Germany, the trio changed location for almost 48 hours. In North Rhine-Westphalia they actively helped sort the many donations.


Hannah Füner, Vroni Droth and Benedikt Bucher usually work for the youth as members of the city youth council.

After the flood disaster in western Germany, the trio changed location for almost 48 hours.

In North Rhine-Westphalia they actively helped sort the many donations.

Fürstenfeldbruck -

When they saw the pictures of the floods, it quickly became clear to the young people that they wanted to help.

So they organized their operation.

17-year-old Hannah Füner and her 18- and 19-year-old friends drove off early in the morning at 4 a.m.

The destination was the logistics center of the German Red Cross, around 570 kilometers away, where donations from all over Germany for the flood victims arrive - and that is unsorted.

In a huge warehouse near Euskirchen, the three of them stood in front of a huge amount of pallets and garbage bags full of donations in kind.

They didn't come empty-handed either: “We brought donations from the AEZ, such as canned food and pasta, in our car,” says Hannah Füner.

The organizers were happy about the support from southern Germany and gave the young people safety vests, masks, radios and gloves.

The three Fürstenfeldbruckers immediately set to work on their assigned work: sorting toys.

"We unpacked the donated things from the boxes and checked whether they were still good," says Benedikt Bucher.

Then the donations were sorted - according to toys, cuddly toys or books.

"The people there were very nice and were happy about our help," says Bucher.

Up to this point no one had taken care of the donated toys.

"First of all, you are in the middle of the chaos."

The three helpers were particularly pleased that some donors had already thought a step further when packing.

“In some boxes there were notes that said 'Thank you very much to the volunteers'”, says 17-year-old Hannah Füner.

She packed the newly sorted boxes onto pallets with Vroni Droth and Benedikt Bucher.

"These can then be requested by the municipalities - depending on what they need," explains the 19-year-old high school graduate.

In the evening of the long day, the helpers from southern Germany were done.

“We were happy when we were in bed in the hotel,” says Bucher.

They had chosen, booked and paid for the accommodation near Cologne themselves.

On day two, Füner, Droth and Bucher awaited a truck that had just arrived at the logistics hall and was loaded to the top. With around 40 other helpers, they formed a human chain and unloaded the semi-trailer for two hours.

“It wasn't until we were finished that we realized how exhausting it really was,” says Hannah Füner.

Then she and her two city youth council colleagues went back to Fürstenfeldbruck.

“It was nice how we were involved and how friendly everyone was,” says Benedikt Bucher.

But: "Some helpers in the center also talked about fates there, that takes you with it."

Source: merkur

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