As of: March 17, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Birgit Lang
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Big thanks: Mayor Stefan Haberl (3rd from right) surrounded by Elfriede Moser (left of him) as well as Claudia Kuhl and Josef Moser (right) at the opening ceremony.
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The Taufkirchen Tafel is moving into new premises in the former Eisen Liebl in the heart of Taufkirchen.
Helpers and customers are thrilled.
Taufkirchen
– The new rooms of the Tafel in the middle of the town center are certainly three times larger than the old ones.
“With a garage – a dream,” says Claudia Kuhl from the three-person management team about the new home in the former Eisen Liebl.
“We can simply drive in with the VW bus, sort the goods under cover and drive out again.” After the long time since Corona, in which the helpers had to do everything outdoors in wind and weather, even in the freezing cold, and the customers had to wait in line, it seems to them the new accommodation is almost luxurious.
It's not just the volunteers who are enthusiastic.
The suppliers, sponsors and guests of honor at the store opening party were also impressed by what the volunteers had done with the former hardware store.
The old drawers in which screws and nuts were stored for decades now have a new use.
“It was a crazy job.
Everyone pitched in and it took us less than a week to get everything ready because so many people helped,” says Kuhl.
The whole shop had to be tidied up and cleared out, the old furnishings cleaned and iron dust removed.
Then the volunteer cleaning crew arrived.
This was all organized by co-chair Elfriede Moser.
Their relationships were worth their weight in gold.
She asked her neighbors from Loiting, two strong men, for help.
And they were happy to come with their two large vans.
Those involved in the edition in the new rooms include (picture below left, from left) Rolf Josef, Monika Schweiger, Elfriede Moser and Maria Stilla Hausner.
© Birgit Lang
Just three days later, the first collection took place at the supermarkets, the goods were unloaded and sorted in the garage and put into the new warehouse - and one day later the first issue was in Eisen Liebl.
“At the beginning we ran double and triple because we didn’t know our way around.
But now helpers and customers enjoy being warm,” says Kuhl.
That's why all the helpers at the festival were beaming from ear to ear, rightly proud of their achievement.
The small room next to the entrance, which used to house shovels, broomsticks and hoses, has been converted into a waiting room.
The shop at the front with the counter serves as a sales room, the one behind it, which was previously stocked with household goods, is a spacious warehouse for groceries.
On the shelves that held glasses, pans, pots, dishes and grave candles for decades, you can now find the urgently needed, long-lasting foods from pasta to sugar.
Three refrigerators hum next to it.
In addition to retailers, women's communities, parish councils, schools, kindergartens and foundations are always very generous.
“We also depend on them and are grateful that we regularly receive donations.” Some private individuals bring home-made jams and preserves.
There is even an anonymous donation group that always asks in advance what is needed and then donates very generous amounts - every month.
Kuhl: “It makes my hair stand up every time and I think to myself: 'My God, what great people they are.
If there were several of them, things wouldn't be so bad in the world.'” Thanks to the larger rooms, you can now accept many times more goods as donations, says the trained bank clerk, who teaches German to the Ukrainian students in the bridge class at the secondary school taught as a second language.
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More goods are also needed.
Currently 125 needy communities are being served, which is around 250 people, including 88 children.
“Since the move, we have already increased our number of communities significantly by 25, but another 44 with 100 people, 40 of whom are still on the waiting list,” regrets the mother of two.
“Despite the many donations, we have to look from week to week.”
Because the rent is also higher, although regulated very accommodatingly.
Kuhl is enthusiastic about landlord Markus Liebl.
He let the Tafel team into the rooms three weeks before the agreed date so that they could begin the clean-up and renovation work and the last edition no longer had to take place outdoors in the freezing cold of December.
Searching for new rooms for over a year © Birgit Lang
Finding a new, affordable place to stay wasn't that easy.
The search began over a year ago by the Tafel management team Claudia Kuhl, Elfriede and Sepp Moser.
“But we didn’t make any progress,” admits Kuhl.
At the beginning of November, a first big meeting took place with representatives from the food bank, the community and Caritas to explore the possibilities.
Sophia Mühlhuber from the community's citizens' office contacted several landlords of vacant rooms until she finally succeeded with the new owner of the former Eisen Liebl.
Then everything happened relatively quickly.
Mühlhuber is responsible for issuing ID cards for the needy groups in the town hall.
Because not everyone is entitled to buy food from the Tafel for one euro.
Although she has now moved to the registry office, she still wants to take care of the food bank from the community side.
Claudia Nertinger from Caritas brought salt and bread to the opening.
She praised the team because they always make sure that those in need are well and even make sure that the students of the integration courses are served in advance so that they get to school in Dorfen and Erding on time.
Mayor Stefan Haberl also thanked all the helpers, sponsors and supporters for the smooth move and all the volunteers who work for the food bank's customers week after week.
The Taufkirchen board
has 65 active helpers.
The work is done in teams of three, which come every three or six weeks, depending on how busy they are.
Because people can now serve at the counter again and have conversations, one or two more helpers are needed in the serving area.
Service is now based on three color points again to prevent long waiting times.
The layer per color point takes around 45 minutes.