Well-being of child patients from all over the world dear to PANOPA’s heart
Source:transportweekly 2014-3-21 9:51:00
“Donations instead of gifts” – true to this motto, PANOPA Logistik GmbH deliberately dispensed with Christmas presents for clients and business partners at the end of last year. Instead, the Duisburg company supports the work of the children’s relief organisation Peace Village International for the fifth year in a row with a donation of 5,000 euros.
“The commitment of the Oberhausen organisation has long been dear to our hearts. We know that the money is well received and put to use where it is most urgently needed,” says Rüdiger Buß, CEO of PANOPA Logistik GmbH. He got an idea of the work carried out by the children’s relief organisation at the facility in Oberhausen. Peace Village International takes care of ailing or injured girls and boys from war zones and crisis-torn areas there. Because the necessary medical care is often not guaranteed in their home countries, the children are flown to Germany and treated here in hospitals. After their release the young patients are looked after in the Peace Village. At the end of last year the relief organisation had 217 children from nine nations in its care.
“Our facility is a home for the girls and boys for a short time and we want to make this time as pleasant as possible for them,” emphasised Thomas Jacobs, head of Peace Village International, who received the symbolic check with delight and showed Rüdiger Buß around the Oberhausen facility: “We are very grateful that PANOPA is again supporting our work so generously. Every child that is healed is a victory.”