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Did you know? World Clean Up Day is coming up on 16 September 2023 - a global movement where people join forces to rid our environment of litter and waste. Get involved! The TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation invites you to become part of this initiative and make an active contribution to your city.

There are new pictures and information about the progress from Venture. In Venture, our partner organization Thusanang, supported among others by TOOLS FOR LIFE, is building a community center for the local population. Employees of the foundation-owned company ROTHENBERGER supported the resumption of construction work in November 2022 (see article from 10.12.2022).

Celebrate the "Heroes of Craftsmanship" at the 1st TOOLS FOR LIFE Craftsmen's Benefit Gala on 21 October 2023 in Kelkheim! The indispensable work of craftsmen and craftswomen will be honoured and celebrated. Be there and be inspired!

Our new activity report is here! In the digital edition you will find all the important information about the Foundation's work from 2022

The TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation wishes everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2023. It is a special year for us - we are celebrating the Foundation's 15th anniversary. Many new exciting projects are on our agenda this year.

After 2 years of interruption due to Corona, "Your Commitment" finally took place again this year. Four ROTHENBERGER employees set off for South Africa to help with a project together with our partner organisation Thusanang.

From mid to late October, our TOOLS FOR LIFE ambassadors Ingried and Michael were once again in India visiting the women's rights organization Jagori Grameen. There, in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, they conducted two training sessions on car mechanics and electrical installation.

Managing Director Dr Sandra Rothenberger was a guest at this year's F.A.Z. conference Stiftung & Unternehmen #5. The topic was the social mission - about the understanding of responsibility in SMEs.

TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation as Generator of ideas, initiator and supporter of all sustainability activities of the ROTHENBERGER Group

On 15 June, the members of HERO 2021, KinderEngel RheinMain e.V. were guests at the TEC Center in Kelkheim, the headquarters of the foundation. The association supports families with seriously or life-shortened children and adolescents and gives them a ray of hope in everyday life.

Ms. Rothenberger, Executive Director of the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation, did an interview for a blog by Thomas Fuchs about the impressions and experiences of the aid convoy to Poland for Ukraine relief.

TOOLS FOR LIFE organised a CleanUp Day in cooperation with the kindergarten in Eppenhain. There were 40 kindergarten children with their teachers and a Ukrainian refugee family who supported us. A playground, an old sports field and several paths at the edge of the forest were cleared of rubbish by the children.

TOOLS FOR LIFE is planning an aid convoy to Poland next week. The intention is to take aid supplies with us and in turn take refugees from the crisis areas with us to Germany.

If you would like to help, be it with relief goods or the provision of housing, please contact info@toolsforlife-foundation.com.

If you would like to support us with funds, please donate here via PayPal or bank transfer to:

Donation account TOOLS FOR LIFE

Bank: HypoVereinsbank UniCredit Bank AG
IBAN: DE35 5032 0191 0032 0671 58
SWIFT: HYVEDEMM430

Please indicate the reason for payment "Ukraine".

Thank you very much!

During the Senegal trip of Dr Rothenberger and Dr Sandra Rothenberger, a visit to a school in Baback was also on the agenda. To improve the empty playground, TOOLS FOR LIFE donated football goals with nets. These were set up and now officially handed over to the pupils.
The Senegalese national team also beat Egypt in the final of the Africa Cup and won it for the first time. Perhaps one or two new Senegalese players will now begin their careers on the new pitch thanks to our goals.

The District Administrator of the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Mr. Cyriax, handed over the donations from the Oldtimer Rallye of September 2021 to the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation. A sum of 7000€ was collected. The money will go to the school construction project in Mbafaye as part of the "1000 Schools for Our World" initiative.

The HERO Day was a great success! 34 members of our HERO Miteinander leben in Kelkheim were guests at the TEC Center in Kelkheim, the foundation's headquarters, on June 25.

Dr. Sandra Rothenberger, president of the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation, gives an interview on the foundation's work.

On 13.07.2019, the TOOLS FOR LIFE Foundation took part in the annual general meeting of the charitable association „Hilfe für Afrika–Wasser für Senegal“.

Our HERO 2017 is the Indian women’s rights organisation Jagori Rural Charitable Trust, which works towards a more just society.

Bon voyage! We wish the ROTHENBERGER associates Mara Weber and Marc Hartwig an interesting and inspiring stay in Uganda.

Every year, the foundation TOOLS FOR LIFE recognizes people who demonstrate social commitment in their spare time.

In co-operation with the charitable association PROBONO, we support the construction of a well at a girls‘ school in Mwanda, Tanzania.

Mathis Brinkmann started off into his project "School for life" in Yumbo, Colombia, very well. He already took over his teaching job giving lessons to students up to ninth grade.

Good news from Bakelelu: the organization by Jésus Martin, which we supported in the course of our HERO 2015 initiative, ran another summer camp in 2016 for kids from the Sahara Region.

The 29.9. marks the date: for the 6. time TOOLS FOR LIFE announces its invitation to tender among ROTHENBERGER employees worldwide to travel as part of the "Your commitment" staff.

The University of Innsbruck School of Management hosted an international working seminar in February with more than 200 students from over 20 countries.

New Year – New Project: We are very pleased to be able to support our new partner, the Solar Energy Foundation, in building Solar Villages in the poorest areas of the world.

The first German lesson for refugees started at the ROTHENBERGER Headquarter Wednesday December 3, at 10.00 am.

The first part of this project is done! The construction of the sanitation complex has been completed as planned and we are very happy that all went well.

Excited and curious were the 16 participants of the German class for refugees in Kelkheim-Fischbach when TOOLS FOR LIFE presented the new German textbooks to Kelkheim's civic refugee support.

Take-off will be on September 29,2015: the two ROTHENBERGER employees Ross Dickinson from England and Timm Wagenknecht from Germany will travel with the "Engineers without borders"-Team from Karlsruhe/Germany to Uganda.

Our longterm engagement Pro Togoville bears fruit: the vegetable garden and the pig breeding, that were started in 2014, thrive and prosper.

The deep well project in Pallo, Senegal, is one of the biggest water projects supported by TOOLS FOR LIFE to date.

The die is cast: Father Antonios from Athens, Greece, and his initiative "Ark of the world" were chosen to be the HERO 2014 for this year's christmas campaign "Donation instead of gifts".

On April 8, 2014, an airplane flew in the direction of Senegal and Patrick Arbeiter, area sales representative from ROTHENBERGER Germany GmbH, was on board.

On January 23, 2014, a new TOOLS FOR LIFE school was opened in Gouye-Ndigou.