Helper pig helps wherever there is a need

Created: 09/27/2022, 11:00 am

By: Wolfgang Krzizok

With a forklift, Harry Hoyler from the Helpers Pig Association fills a 40-ton truck with relief supplies for Ukraine, here baby cots.

He was only recently on the road again - albeit in the flood area in the Ahr Valley.

© Wolfgang Krzizok

The Moosinninger association helper pig supports the needy in the distance and at home.

Moosinning

– The Moosinninger association Helferschwein around its active chairman Harry Hoyler is currently on the move on many fronts.

Most recently, he was in the Ahr Valley with an aid truck. At the beginning of next week, another 40-ton truck will be rolling into the Ukraine.

Harry Hoyler sits on the forklift, lifting hospital beds and children's beds into a truck that is already half full of groceries.

"It'll soon be full, then it's off to the Ukraine again," he says and then explains that he's just returned from the Ahr Valley.

It was "terrible" there - still.

Even a good year after the devastating flood “it looks like bombs have hit.

People feel left alone.”

He couldn't believe that there were tens of millions of donations in the accounts of aid organizations that were not paid out.

"These so-called aid organizations are waiting for the insurance companies to pay, the insurance companies are waiting for the money to flow - one points to the other, and the people there are the ones who suffer," complains Eichenrieder.

Hoyler set out for the Ahr Valley with a few friends – with a 40-ton truck provided by the Damböck company – full of building materials donated by Hasit (shotcrete and joint mortar) and Baustoffe Auer (tile adhesive).

Local entrepreneurs had set up camps where donated relief supplies were then to be distributed, but some of these had to be dismantled again on the instructions of the district.

"A company had also set up containers with showers for 300 helpers, but the district administration didn't want that and they had to leave again after a short time," says Hoyler, who also speaks of an "above-average suicide rate in the area".

In Walporzheim, he saw volunteers feeding old people who didn't have a proper roof over their heads.

He was also "very shocked".

What also stunned him: “Two days after the flood, many Chinese were out with suitcases of money, a notary in tow, and tried to buy land.

Unbelievable!"

It took him some time to process the impressions: "We were all shocked that something like this is possible in Germany." The building materials were unloaded in Erbstadt, where they were stored in a Mercedes car dealership, "and the people can take what they need there".

But that was only the first part of the helper pig mission.

An acquaintance, Rüdiger “Brocki” Brockmann, and his wife Katharina had put them in touch with the St. Joseph Brothers Hospital in Paderborn.

Among other things, there would be hospital beds that would have to be disposed of because they no longer meet German standards.

"Then we got twelve hospital beds, emergency couches, children's beds, bedside tables and mattresses for the Ukraine," says Hoyler.

"Everything is now going directly to the front areas, there are many wounded soldiers and also old, sick people." Other relief supplies will also be on board again.

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He is visibly touched when he tells how great the willingness to donate is.

"The Hap Ki Do Club Lechfeld, for example, sent food worth a good 5000 euros, the Freisinger Land e.

V. boiled down cans in bulk, and the Januschkowetz company a range of razors,” he cites a few examples.

It is very important for Hoyler to point out that the helper pig e.

V. doesn't just think about Ukraine.

"This year alone we have already donated around 40,000 euros to organizations in the area," he expressly emphasizes.

Among others to: Lichtblick Hasenbergl, Stiftung Kinderklinik Schwabing, Ein Herz für Rentner e.

V., Schneiderhof court of grace, Aktion Brücke - kitchen for the homeless, Stiftung Schneekristalle, parents' initiative for children with cancer, the readers' campaign of the Erdinger Anzeiger Licht in den Herzen and various Lions Clubs.

"Of course we will not neglect our actual core business," promises the club chairman, who is already thinking about the next aid transport to the Ahr Valley.

"Winter is just around the corner, and most people there still don't have windows in their houses, let alone working heating systems," says Hoyler, who is most upset that decision-makers keep talking about "unbureaucratic help", but in the end nothing happened.

"Unbureaucratic is the word of the year for me," he grumbles.

"One passes the buck to the other."

Towels, blankets and bedding are urgently needed in the flooded area.

The same is true in the Ukraine, where, according to Hoyler, "the Russians are destroying the electricity supply everywhere as they retreat."

So it is clear to him that, in addition to beds, medical equipment, sleeping bags and blankets, the people there "need above all warm winter clothing".

He wants to collect these things soon and bring them to the Ukraine in October - and maybe before that he'll go to the Ahr Valley again.

“But first we have to fill up this truck that is going to Ukraine soon,” says Hoyler, getting back on his forklift and loading the next beds with his helpers.

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