Run4Refugees in regionalen Schweizer Printmedien

In den vergangenen Tagen berichteten zum einen die „Zürichsee-Zeitung“ (Ausgabe vom 30. Dezember 2015), als auch die Lokalzeitung von Männedorf, der "Fischotter" ( FO 1/16 – Januar / Februar 2016 Seite 35)  über unser Projekt. 

Das macht uns natürlich stolz, und ist eine große Unterstützung für unser Projekt! Wir haben  bewusst auf Werbemaßnahmen verzichtet, da diese meist mit finanziellem Aufwand verbunden sind. Deshalb sind wir, neben Mund-zu-Mund-Propaganda, auf solche Berichte angewiesen, die über unsere Charity-Aktion informieren.

Ein herzliches DANKESCHÖN an dieser Stelle an die Redaktionen der beiden Zeitungen!
Vielleicht gibt es im Laufe der nächsten Monate noch den einen oder anderen „Zwischenbericht“ von Run4Refugees – wir würden uns darüber freuen!

Run4Refugees has begun!

Today, the first day of the new year, marked the start of our charity project Run4Refugees! All of the cumulative training kilometers that we run between today and the finish line of the 100-km Biel race on June 11^th will be supported by your donations and the money used to help refugee children and youths!

We just spent the past 5 days in Arosa, Switzerland, with our families, doing some skiing, snowboarding, and of course lots of snowy trail running! You can check out our Facebook page for loads of photos.

And if you haven’t sponsored yet, what are you waiting for? It is a huge motivation for us to get your support. A sponsorship of even only 1 cent per kilometer for both of us will only cost you about 40 Euro/CHF (if we achieve our goal of 4,000km)...and that can go a long, long way for refugee youths!

Just send us a brief email to Run4Refugees@yahoo.com with (1) your Name, (2) Who you are donating to (Holly, Tom or Both), and (3) the amount of your donation (cents per kilometer or a fixed sum). And you don’t have to pay until June!

And don’t forget to follow our Blog and Facebook page to get updates on our progress and adventures!

Thanks so much for your sponsorship!

Ice Hockey with the Refugee Kids

Stadium Tour

Last night I had the opportunity to go to an EVR Regensburg ice hockey game with some of the refugees from the Thomas-Wiser Youth Home, two of their caregivers, the head of the Thoma-Wiser-Haus as well as my entire family! I was so happy to finally have my family meet the kids from the home, so that they could see for themselves the reason that I have recently donated so much time and effort in concentrating on the Run4Refugees project.

And it was so much fun!

 

We met Alex and Armin Wolf two hours before the game and they gave us a VIP tour of the Donau Arena. Along the way we got to meet the Trainer of the team, some of the players, the stadium announcer and the press speaker for the team. We then all gathered by the concession stand and gorged on French fries and Coke while watching the teams warm up. I think the teens were thrilled but totally overwhelmed…their German is not yet 100% and most of them had never seen an ice hockey game before. But by the time it was over they were all completely won over! The end score was 7-1 in favor of Regensburg and we all went nuts every time our team scored and the announcer had us all repeating the score and the “Danke…Bitte”…after his prompting. 

Warm-up in Tracht

And despite the language and culture barriers my kids bonded with them right from the start and laughed throughout the night with them.

Every time I get together with this group it strengthens my belief in the Run4Refugees Project!

I hope you will believe in it too!

And if you do....PLEASE DONATE! If you don't, who will?

And Veda was there too!!!!!