As of: February 27, 2024, 8:09 a.m
By: Klaus Greif
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Sibylle Gutekunst brought an old Martin's lantern (here in the hands of Wolfgang Winter) full of money to the board.
The amount can be read from the symbolic check that Reinhold Wilhelm is holding.
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The Germeringer Tafel will be 25 years old next year.
The facility was managed by Sibylle Gutekunst for the first ten years.
Germering – She celebrated her 88th birthday these days and collected 1,000 euros from her family and two couples who were friends.
She is now donating the money to the Germeringer Tafel.
When Sibylle Gutekunst started as head of the Germeringer Tafel in 2000, everything was a little smaller than it is today.
A former small corner shop on Brückenstrasse was used.
In the first few years, 50 to 60 customers came to the weekly food distribution.
The number of volunteers that Gutekunst could count on was around 30.
Small family
“We were like a little family,” Gutekunst remembers.
Close contact and even friendships often developed with the people who were dependent on help.
“The Tafel was my favorite child,” says Sibylle Gutekunst, who had always been involved in social services in the years before the Tafel was founded.
That was also the reason that Sibylle Gutekunst decided to collect money for the food bank on her 88th birthday.
They only celebrated with close family and two couples who were good friends.
Nevertheless, the collection raised 1,000 euros.
The birthday child brought the banknotes to the blackboard on Monday in an original way: the banknotes were in a Martin's lantern that one of her children had made at school decades ago.
The whiteboard
The donation was accepted by Wolfgang Winter and Reinhard Wilhelm.
The fact that the facility now has two managers is no different from before.
The board is now located in spacious rooms on the ground floor of the Zenja multi-generational house.
The number of weekly customers has increased so much, especially since the start of the Ukraine war, that the distribution has to take place in two groups.
In total, there are now well over 1,000 people who are dependent on this type of help.
The food bank is maintained by almost 80 helpers.
They are busy collecting the food from supermarkets and donors as well as preparing the goods and then handing them out on Tuesday.
According to Wolfgang Winter, the food available is actually far too little every week: The donations collected on Monday fill the available shelves from top to bottom - but according to the head of the food bank, these shelves are usually empty much faster than you do can imagine it.
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