Acute staff shortage: Holzhauser daycare resorts to unusual means
Created: 09/25/2022, 15:45
On the meadow between Holzhausen and Oberambach, children, parents and staff at the day care center in Holzhausen released 99 colorful balloons into the sky.
The reason: the day care center is plagued by an acute shortage of staff.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
The day-care center is looking for staff with a creative campaign.
99 balloons with a job advertisement attached rose into the sky
Holzhausen – 99 balloons rose into the bright blue sky over Lake Starnberg on Thursday morning.
But no birthday, no wedding and no other happy event were the reason for the colorful spectacle.
The action had a serious background: the Holzhausen day care center (Kita) Sankt Georg, like many other such care facilities in the district, has been desperately looking for staff for months.
Acute staff shortage: Holzhauser daycare resorts to unusual means
Anna Batke had the original idea of using airmail to solicit childcare workers, social workers and volunteers.
Her four-year-old daughter Laura is already attending kindergarten, and her seven-month-old daughter Leonie should also feel at home there later.
Hoping for a response: Anna Batke (left) and Christiane Bolzmacher from the parents' council at the day care center in Holzhausen.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
99 balloons with appendix: job advertisement and portrait of a "preferred kindergarten aunt"
Postcards with the job offer are attached to the 99 helium-filled balloons.
Under a photograph of the day care center in the middle of the green, it reads: "Our committed and experienced team is looking for reinforcements for our beautifully situated Catholic day care center".
In addition, a link refers to the detailed job advertisement on the Internet (www.erzbistum.muenchen.de).
The back was painted by around 65 children from the kindergarten in Holzhausen - every girl and boy as best they could.
The older ones sketched their future "desired kindergarten aunt" quite nicely with colored pencils or wrote their names in spidery letters on the postcards.
The younger ones produced more abstract works with wax crayons.
The pictures are definitely eye-catching.
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Parents' council and management hope for feedback
Anna Batke and Christiane Bolzmacher from the Parents' Council, as well as the deputy head of the kindergarten, Gabi Faltin, now hope that one or the other specialist will take a closer look after a balloon has landed and report it.
"Of course we don't want to poach anyone.
But if someone has finished their training, wants to start again or is thinking about a change anyway, we would be happy if they contacted us," says Faltin in an interview with our newspaper.
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More daycare places possible - "We would easily fill them up"
At the moment there are two kindergarten groups and one crèche group in Sankt Georg.
There is the spatial possibility of setting up another crèche group in the former school building in the Münsinger district of Holzhausen.
The district office is currently checking whether everything would fit in terms of fire protection and monument protection.
"We could easily complete the second group of crèches," says Faltin.
As reported, there is a lack of places for the little ones in the municipality.
According to the provisional director, Pastor Martin Kirchbichler is “entirely” behind the expansion.
The church would also help find housing for the new employees.
Campaign environmentally friendly: biodegradable balloons with cotton strings
According to the parents' association, the 99 balloons are 100 percent biodegradable.
The postcards were attached with cotton cords.
There are no alternatives to the expensive noble gas helium.
TANJA LUHR
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