Children’s home receives pile of gifts
The pile of presents is enormous, but the smiles on the children’s faces will be even bigger. The recipients are residents at Elisabethstift in Pankow – one of Berlin’s longest-running children’s homes – and the presents are being provided by members of Oliver Daumke’s and two other working groups. The idea behind the initiative came from Austrian PhD Student Manuel Hessenberger: “My wife and I do this every year,” says Manuel. “We call up a children’s home and ask to be sent a bunch of letters written to Father Christmas. As we are originally from Austria, we used to support the children’s home in Salzburg. In early 2013, however, we moved to Berlin, and we decided that this time we wanted to give the gifts to German kids in a German home.”