2010 AIWCC Winter Charity Ball 

Our 5th Annual Charity Gala, held on January 30, 2010 at the Excelsior Hotel Ernst was an amazing success. We raised over 11,000 Euro through our silent auction and generous cash donations!!
Added to the money we raised for the Kinderhospiz Balthasar in earlier fundraising efforts, these new donations mean that we have reached our goal of 14,000 Euro!! These funds will underwrite the Clown Therapy Program at Kinderhospiz Balthasar, Germany’s first children’s hospice.

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  2009 AWCC Winter Charity Ball 

On January 24, we had our fourth Charity Gala…

This year the AWCC decided to support the Diakonie Michaelshoven in their efforts to purchase a “counseling bus.” This mobile outreach should provide women in so-called low-threshold households with assistance and counsel. Although the Diakonie already has three centers on the eastern part of the Rhine, not all women can be reached. They are not always willing to leave their neighborhood and sometimes have no access to any means of transport. They should be approached where they live or places where they regularly shop, at the playground or on their way to school or kindergarten.

Counseling would be offered prior to the onset of domestic or financial problems.

Our Gala was hosted at the Excelsior Hotel Ernst and a joyful party of 130 guests and members made the evening very memorable. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we were able to collect more than 50 wonderful prizes that were auctioned during the evening. With great joy and pride, we were able to donate €8000 to the Diakonie Michaelshoven!

This evening wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our members. From the organization and preparation to the set up and progress of the event, not to mention the search for and collection of prizes, many members have been involved… This is the whole work of the club. The more the members are willing to help, the more successful the event can be. A big thank you to you all!

Past Charity Fundraisers

2008 AWCC Winter Charity Ball 
Ronald McDonaldHouse

Themoney raised at this charity event benefited the Ronald McDonaldHouse being built at the children's hospital on Amsterdamer Strasse inKöln.  The house, with its 14 apartments, will provide a "home awayfrom home" for 350 families of seriously ill children receivingtreatment at the children's hospital.  This way parents can be withtheir children "around the clock" and thereby help speed recovery. 

Thanks to your generous donations which helped us reach our goal, anapartment in the Ronald McDonald House Cologne will be forever known asthe AWCC Apartment.  

Read the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger article about the Gala>

2007 AWCC Winter Charity Ball
KinderhilfeKambodscha – Women Helping Women Project 

AWCC is listed in their website under "Wir sagenDanke": http://www.kkev-aachen.de/content/view/20/19/lang,de/

Women Helping Women: Kinderhilfe Kamboscha e.V. is a registered non-profit organization devoted toproviding a better way of life for the orphans and HIV/AIDS mothers of PhnomPenh, Cambodia. Founder Michael Weiss, an architect from Aachen,and his wife Veronika founded this organization in 2002 in order to buyproperty to build an orphanage for the street children who knew nothing otherthan begging to survive. Since that time with the help of donations from familyand friends, Michael has worked with the local government to develop a selfsufficient compound with drinkable water and run on solar power. The orphanagehas 10 family houses, a school, gardens, a fish pond, and work houses where thechildren learn a trade. Completed in 2007, this orphanage is the first projectundertaken to provide a home, a family and a future for these children.

However, childrenare not the only victims of HIV/AIDS. Women, who often find themselves infectedby their husbands, are ostracized by society and routinely lose their jobs as aresult. With no means to provide for their families, they live in fear of whatwill happen to their children when they die from the disease. KinderhilfeKambodscha e.V. is giving some of these mothers a new lease on life by payingthem a wage to take care of their own children and other HIV positive childrenwho have lost their own mothers. Further, the women are promised that shouldthey die, their children will be placed in the orphanage or with other fostermothers. 

It is this project that the AWCC Charities Committeehas selected to support with the proceeds from the 2007 Winter Charity Ball. Aswomen and mothers, our hearts go out to these courageous women trying theirbest to care for their families even as they face a devastating illness withabsolutely no support from their community. If we were forced to walk theproverbial mile in their shoes wouldn’t each of us be just as desperateto secure the future of our children before we died?

2006 AWCC Winter CharityBall
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) http://www.thp.org/

 The Hunger Project created the African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) in 1999 — a pioneeringprogram of training, credit and savings designed to economically empower womenfood farmers.

Experts agree that agriculture is the key to economic progress in Africa.Yet most programs to revitalize African agriculture have bypassed the mostimportant producers — the 100 million women who grow Africa’sfood. In sub-Saharan Africa, women grow 80 percent of the food. They dovirtually all the work to process, transport and market the food. Yet women ownonly 1 percent of the land, and receive only 7 percent of farm extensionservices and 10 percent of small-scale agricultural credit.