While this year’s Deutsche Post & Postcrossing’s Postcards for a good cause campaign is still ongoing and looking good, the result of last year’s drive has just been delivered!
If you remember, during the 2013 campaign German postcrossers sent 78450 postcards, raising a total of 7845 euros… which Deutsche Post now kindly rounded up to 10000 euros!
Photo credit: Deutsche Post — Andreas Kuehlken
This week, on a ceremony which took place in a kindergarten near Deutsche Post’s headquarters in Bonn, the check was handed over to Stiftung Lesen and immediately put to work on a two-day reading tutor training program. The program will prepare 50 “reading godfathers”, who will then visit schools, kindergartens, youth and family centers, libraries and retirement homes to read and help get everyone excited about reading.
Great job, everyone — we’re really proud of your commitment! This year, we’ll do our best to get other postal operators involved on the December campaign as well, so that together, we can do even more for this and other worthy causes! :)
17 comments so far
Wonderful!
It's such a great project and I tried to send a few cards though I was quite busy in December. 20 of them are already registered . :-D
that sounds wonderfull, & other post offices meaning(?) other countries too?
A good campaign
@carlinde: Yes - we mean other postal operators in other countries! I'm going to fix the post to make that more clear :)
A very good cause: Reading is for everybody! Thanks Deutsche Post and Stiftung Lesen
Great! I'm so happy of being a small part in this :)
congratulations!!!! :)
Congratulations! Germany it made it :) postcrossing is great
Exited for this lovely project!!!Congratulations!!1
..;o) it´s great to become a part of this challenge for a good cause....send lots of postcards, but lots of addresses are to far away to arrive in time..I hope lots of them will do it ;o)
I hope they'll hold an event like this again in Dec 2015! Sending cards is double as fun when you know that you're helping a very nice foundation.
sent 25 Postcards in December - couldn't send more because the registrators were too lazy :D
Congra!
I'm graceful to all postpersons in Europe who help me to deliver cards to Postcrossing users.
We have an outstanding Worldwide Postal System for which I am grateful. Very nicely done GERMANY! "Read On" and Happy Postcrossing Always. Holiday or no holiday, lets do some more good.
we need those kinds of actions in summer,when not more than 70% of all our postcards and letter get lost..><
then we would have raised much more money
Great! Thanks Postcrossing for making all this possible and thanks Deutsche Post for donating even more (Hey, maybe that's where the money from the price increase went? :D) It's such a lovely project.
I was able to send 17 postcards this December, 13 have already been registered. I hope the others will arrive in time.