Karlsruhe, 23.04.2024 – It is a topic that is often difficult to talk about. This makes the work of those who actively support those affected all the more important: The full-time and volunteer staff of the Karlsruhe Children’s Hospice Service look after seriously or terminally ill children and young people with their families and work every day to improve their quality of life as much as possible. To support the important work of the service, Karlsruhe-based IT provider Asseco Solutions has launched a fundraising campaign. The amount of 2,090 euros raised was handed over to representatives of the children’s hospice service by CEO Ralf Bachthaler today, Tuesday.
The donation was collected with the help of Asseco employees as part of an Easter campaign: the company acknowledged each participation in an internal quiz with a donation of ten euros. This raised a total of 2,090 euros for the children’s hospice service, which will support the daily work of the social institution.
“What the employees of the Karlsruhe Children’s Hospice Service achieve on a daily basis, the fates they are confronted with, is almost unimaginable for most of us. I have the utmost respect for their service,” emphasized Ralf Bachthaler, CEO of Asseco Solutions, when handing over the donation. “I am all the more pleased that so many of our employees have supported this important cause so eagerly. Even colleagues from our branch in Guatemala took part in the fundraising campaign in order to raise as much money as possible. I am delighted to be able to hand over the money now and hope that our donation can make at least a small contribution to supporting the important work of the Karlsruhe Children’s Hospice Service in practice.”
Care for children and their families
The Karlsruhe Children’s Hospice Service is a division of the superordinate Karlsruhe Hospice Service. The latter has been in existence since June 1991 and is sponsored by the Diakonisches Werk Karlsruhe and the Caritasverband Karlsruhe e. V. In addition to providing outpatient care for seriously or terminally ill children and young people, the children’s hospice service also provides support for families in which a parent is seriously ill, for example with cancer. The help is available to the sick child itself, the siblings, the parents and people in the family’s immediate surroundings. A total of 43 volunteers worked for the Karlsruhe Children’s Hospice Service in 2023.
