Charity
ENERGETIX Bingen supports the Hugo Tempelman Foundation.
The Dutch doctor has been engaged in a precedent-setting project to combat AIDS and improve the living conditions of thousands of people in South Africa since 1990.
Charity part of the 2011 Jubilee Launch
Moving moment at the 2011 Catalogue Launch in Mainz's Rheingoldhalle at the end of August: Dr. Hugo Tempelman and his wife Liesje received a cheque for 175,000 euros. As the Dutch doctor said in his speech of thanks, this ensures that his hospital in South Africa will continue to operate up to the end of 2013. According to Dr. Tempelman, "In concrete terms, it means saving the lives of people who would otherwise die".
CEO and owner Roland Förster was in South Africa a few weeks earlier with Manfred Teubner, Head of Entertainment at ZDF, who agreed to become an honorary member of the Board of the Hugo Tempelman Foundation.
A film was made there which will be used to support the Foundation.
Charity – an inner need
We and our distributors have become successful as a result of our work.
It provides us with satisfaction and financial security.
Saying thank you and doing something useful
Hence our need to help people who do not enjoy such a life. We are delighted that we - and our distributors – have found a way to share our success with these people through our charity activities. In the Hugo Tempelman Foundation we have found an organization that converts our support directly into help for the sick and needy. Up to September 2010 we had presented the Hugo Tempelman Foundation with 170,000 € in donations.
Hugo Tempelman Foundation
ENERGETIX Bingen's charity activities
Help for mother-and-child project in South Africa
Energetix Bingen has supported the South African AIDS project of Dutch doctor Hugo Tempelman since 2008. On 4 September 2010 ENERGETIX CEO and owner Roland Förster presented Hugo Tempelman and his wife Liesje with a cheque for 100,000 € at the presentation of the new jewellery collection and the new catalogue in Mainz's Rheingoldhalle, before an audience of over 1300 guests.
The Tempelmans have been active in the fight against AIDS in South Africa since 1990. Today their project incorporates several clinics with a range of infrastructural and cultural measures and involves the creation of new jobs. It now serves as a model and can be used wherever similar conditions prevail. A project of this size is dependent on financial support. A lot of sponsors have reduced their readiness to donate to charities because of the difficult economic situation. This also endangers the so far very successful work of the Tempelman Foundation.
Energetix Bingen has therefore decided to continue giving targeted financial support to Hugo Tempelman's AIDS project. The 100,000 € donation will go towards the mother-and-child unit in the 24-hour clinic of the South African town of Elandsdoorn. Thanks to the excellent medical care, 99% of the HIV-infected mothers in this clinic give birth to uninfected babies. The opportunity to sustain the very young and hence save lives and enable them to develop is what motivates the fundraising campaign.
Energetix Bingen had already donated the sum of 70,000 € to the AIDS project in previous years, in several individual amounts. The new record sum has been possible because of the company's satisfying growth. Distributors have once again sold the firm's best-selling product, the Magnet Heart (on which the amount to be donated is based), so successfully that the company was able to donate a further 100,000 €.
In November 2009 the recognition and worldwide attention received by the Tempelmans' project was once again apparent when they received the Martin Buber Awardfor their services to humanity. Michail Gorbatschow,also a holder of the Martin Buber Award, was so taken by the Bingen company's commitment that he sent a message of greeting to the catalogue launch in Mainz.
Donation from the heart
The Magnet Heart has been ENERGETIX Bingen's best-selling product for years. The amount donated to the Hugo Tempelman Foundation is based on the number of Magnet Hearts sold. Donations are made at regular intervals. Two euros are added to the donation for every Magnet Heart sold. The amount donated increases each time, in line with the company's growth. Amount donated so far (September 2010): 170,000 euros.
Dr. Hugo Tempelman
Martin Buber Award for our charity partner
On 15 November 2009 Dr. Hugo Tempelman and his wife Liesje were awarded the Martin Buber Award at Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade in recognition of their work in South Africa.
Previous recipients of this award for services to humanity have included Richard von Weizsäcker, Helmut Schmidt and Mikhail Gorbachev. Having visited the Tempelman project in South Africa, ENERGETIX Bingen distributors were absolutely sure our donations were being used sensibly and effectively. This official recognition of our charity partner demonstrates once again that we made the right decision.
An ENERGETIX representative was present at the award ceremony, which was an extremely moving event.
ENERGETIX jewellery also had a role to play: the "Youth in Dialogue" event, in which young people from many countries participated, included a literature competition. Elisaveta, the charming winner from the Russian town of Perm, received as her prize a set of ENERGETIX Bingen jewellery.
Message of greeting from Mikhail Gorbachev to ENERGETIX Bingen on the occasion of the 2010 Catalogue Launch
„Everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of the human family and the larger living world.“
From the preamble to the Earth Charter
Liesje and Hugo Tempelman are people who have understood this. Their South African project is a very successful model in the fight against Aids. The life and commitment of both is compelling. They inspire others and move them to become actively involved.
Hugo and Liesje Tempelman run a mother-and-child project at the Ndlovu Medical Centre that they set up in Elandsdoorn. Thanks to comprehensive care before, during and after birth, 99% of the HIV-infected mothers at this clinic now give birth to healthy HIV-negative babies.
Energetix Bingen, which has its headquarters in Germany, has understood that part of a successful company's responsibility is to help the weakest members of the human family and to open new perspectives for them.
Energetix Bingen is deeply committed to supporting this project with your donations. Together with its distributors, this medium-sized company has so far donated 170,000 euros to the Ndlovu Medical Centre. The money will save the lives of hundreds of children.
I welcome this noble humanitarian project and wish its initiators and participants ongoing success.
