As part of the campaign for voluntary work, the state government awards particularly exemplary voluntary initiatives and associations every month as “Initiative of the Month”, publicises them throughout the state and provides a recognition amount of 500 euros each.

Today, the government spokesman of the Hessian state government, State Secretary Michael Bußer (centre), presented the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer with the “Initiative of the Month January 2018” award for its exemplary social commitment. Uwe Menger (left, member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors) and Dr Jürgen Vogt (right, Chairman of the Foundation) accepted the award. We are very proud to have been recognised and will use the 500 euros associated with the award for our further commitment.

On 23 May, Mirjana Massieu and her father were guests at the Research House. The occasion was a donation of 1,200 euros from the Nidda-Kampfbahn restaurant.

The money was collected at a charity event of the restaurant (owner Mr. Holger Hauke).

We would like to thank him very much for his commitment.

Christopher Sand from the Jackpot Tournament Series Frankfurt came to us on Friday to hand over the money that was in the jackpot.

Over the course of 2017, a large tournament series was run in which 1 euro per entry fee flowed into a jackpot. A total of 170 euros was collected in 17 tournaments. By vote, the organisers decided to donate the money to us and thus support important cancer research.

Many thanks for this.

Clariant Deutschland GmbH decided to support our research with a donation this year.

Employees of the “Clariant Refinery Services” department had collected and thus raised 610 euros. Kerstin Müller, Sabine Goetzke and Kay Kutschbach (from left) from the department came to our research building for the donation handover on 1 February and then took a look at the laboratories.

We would like to thank all employees for their social commitment and wish them all the best for the future.

On 25 January 2018, the British Standards Institution (BSI) presented a cheque for 2,000 euros to support our Foundation’s in-house laboratory. This is the proceeds from two information events that BSI held in 2017 on the new European regulations in the areas of medical technology (MDR) and in-vitro diagnostics (IVDR).

“It is important to us to use our donation to support the foundation in its research into the development, overcoming and therapy of chemoresistance in tumours, and thus to contribute to the promotion of therapy concepts and treatment options for children with cancer,” says Dr Michael Weißig, responsible for BSI’s Healthcare division in Europe. Christoph Bracker, Marketing Manager for BSI’s Medical Technology Division, emphasises that “with its range of services in the certification of, among others, in vitro diagnostic companies, BSI contributes to supporting patients in their recovery in the long term. In this way, we are already assuming social responsibility through our service.”

Dirk Kammertöns, Managing Director of the Foundation, is happy about such donations: “The Foundation is 100% financed by private donations. Because of this, we are particularly pleased when companies such as the British Standards Institution, which operate in a similar medical field, support us in helping children with cancer.”

Pictured are: (from left) Dr Michael Weißig (BSI), Dirk Kammertöns (Foundation) and Christoph Bracker (BSI).