The Luxembourg Red Cross has announced that its Mois du Don 2016 will be held in the month of April.
The Mois du Don ('Donation Month') is an annual event whereby the Red Cross devotes all its efforts to gathering donations for their causes. This year the project, held under the slogan “Merci fir Är Mënschlechkeet” ('Thank you for your generosity'), is dedicated to all those who give aid as well as to the 2,000 volunteers that will be travelling around the country in support of the Red Cross.
“In a few days, 2,000 volunteers from the Red Cross will go from door to door to collect donations that will support its activities in the areas of health, the social, youth and the humanitarian. Volunteers are identified by their badge worn around the neck. The quest from households establishes a close relationship that also allows the public to directly inform on the activities of the Red Cross”, said Rita Krombach-Meyer, President of the local Luxembourg City branch of the Red Cross.
Michel Simonis, general manager of the Red Cross explained how the donations received will help the Red Cross in not only continuing their current efforts but also in developing their initiatives in response to societal and humanitarian issues. He expressed his hope that the citizens of Luxembourg will open their doors to the volunteers and consider giving a donation, no matter how small.
The Grand Duchy displays a risk rate of 16% poverty. The fight against insecurity is one of the main areas of intervention of the Luxembourg Red Cross. To aid the fight against this precarity the Red Cross opened the 8th Social Grocery (Croix-Rouge Buttek) of the Red Cross in Remich in January 2016 to help those with difficulties accessing food and hygiene products to acquire such items. Actions the Luxembourg Red Cross is involved in to combat this poverty rate include gathering clothing to distribute and providing daily hot meals to the homeless and those living in extreme poverty. For the first three months of this year the Red Cross has given out an average of 148 hot meals every day with the help of volunteers. They also provided twice weekly medical hotlines with the help of nurses and volunteers of the aid and care network HELP.
Only a few of the 35 Red Cross aid services have full state funding, the remainder operate on donations, with a significant amount of the support provided both locally and abroad dependent on these financial contributions.
If you wish to make a donation but are likely to be away from home as the Luxembourg Red Cross voluteers make their rounds, fear not, a donation can be made:
• By transfer to CCPL LU52 1111 0000 1111 0000 (communication: Don Month 2016)
• By bank card on their webpage: www.croix-rouge.lu
• Or by contacting 2755
For more information go to: www.donenconfiance.lu.
For those who would like to give a few hours of their time to collecting donations for the Red Cross, particularly in the towns of Wiltz cantons, Clervaux, Diekirch, Echternach, Grevenmacher, Capellen and Mersch and in Esch / Alzette and Luxembourg City send an email to benevolat@croix-rouge.lu or register on www.moisdudon.lu.
Photos by the Luxembourg Red Cross
Bottom Photo: (L-R) Marc Crochet, Deputy Director General of the Luxembourg Red Cross, Rita Krombach-Meyer, Vice-President of the Luxembourg Red Cross and President of the local chapter of Luxembourg City, Michel Simonis, Managing Director of the Luxembourg Red Cross Denise Prost-Lommel, Secretary of the local Luxembourg City section.
