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Dec 6, 2020 at 4:06 PMThe logistics service provider Albert Craiss GmbH & Co. KG donates money instead of distributing customer gifts. The women’s shelter in Pforzheim receives a donation of 7,000 euros. An additional 1,200 euros go to the Pforzheim Sterneninsel children’s hospice, the Auenhof housing project, and the Christophorushilfe support association of the Maulbronn children’s center.
(Mühlacker/Pforzheim) This year, Albert Craiss GmbH & Co. KG is also forgoing generous customer gifts and instead donating to charitable causes. This Christmas, 7,000 euros will go to the Ecumenical Women’s Shelter in Pforzheim. The donation helps finance a necessary internship position. Craiss managing director Michael Craiss presented the organization with a symbolic check. An additional 1,200 euros will also support other organizations.
Obligation for social responsibility
“As a successful company, we see it as our duty to take on not only economic but also social and societal responsibility – especially locally here in our area,” says Michael Craiss, managing director of Albert Craiss GmbH & Co. KG. Solidarity and cohesion are particularly important in these turbulent times. “During the lockdown due to COVID-19, there was an increase in domestic violence against women. Therefore, it is more important than ever to support places of refuge for them and their children, such as the Pforzheim women’s shelter,” Craiss explains the choice of this year’s donation recipient. With the money, the organization can partially finance a FSJ position (Voluntary Social Year), which is needed to support women with official matters or to care for their children.
Other institutions receive a donation
An additional 1,200 euros will go to the Pforzheim Sterneninsel children’s hospice, the Auenhof housing project, and the Christophorushilfe support association of the Maulbronn children’s center. Part of this money comes from the Craiss-internal so-called “latecomer fund”: Anyone who arrives late to the weekly Monday meeting of management and executives has to pay five euros into it. “Most of the money in there is probably from me,” Craiss chuckles. In addition, the family-owned company provides its employees with coffee for a small fee of 20 cents. This money also goes into the Christmas donation at the end of each year.
Photo: © Craiss / Image caption: Craiss managing director Michael Craiss presents Tanja Göldner from the Ecumenical Women’s Shelter Pforzheim with a symbolic check for 7,000 euros.
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