Bread instead of firecrackers
Under the motto Bread Instead of Firecrackers , the aid organization Bread for the World is calling for part of the sum of money that is otherwise spent on fireworks on New Year's Eve to be donated to development aid .
The “Bread instead of firecrackers” campaign was launched in the early 1980s. Under this motto, the Protestant parish in Bargteheide (Schleswig-Holstein) collected donations for “Bread for the World” for the first time in 1981. At the end of 2007, fireworks in Germany had sales of around 100 million euros, in 2015 around 129 million euros, which corresponds to around 1.58 euros per inhabitant. The money that is literally wasted in the air can be used more sensibly, so the argumentation. Since 2010 the slogan bread instead of firecrackers has been supplemented by the line “Sharing is joy”. In the foreground of the action is not the renunciation of the fireworks, but the idea of sharing on the occasion of the New Year's Eve celebrations.
The New Year's Eve appeal does not find support from the entire development scene. Critics such as the 3rd World Saar show that the connection between the New Year's Eve fireworks and poverty in the world can be chosen arbitrarily: “You could just as well call for no Christmas trees, smartphones, books or jogging suits to buy, drink or wine To skip football games. ”It is criticized that the appeal primarily displays hostility to pleasure and only appeals to the guilty conscience. Celebration is part of this, and for many the burning of fireworks is connected with it, in all cultures the essence of human beings. The representatives of Aktion 3. Welt Saar see the problem not so much in local consumption, but in the global distribution and use of food (for example as fodder) due to a failed agricultural policy, which cannot be eliminated through alms. They are calling for the appeal "Bread instead of firecrackers" to be replaced by "Bread AND firecrackers".
Individual evidence
- ↑ handelsdaten.de from EHI Retail Institute , accessed January 7, 2016
- ↑ "Bread instead of firecrackers". Don't shoot everything into the sky ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ekd.de
- ↑ a b “Bread instead of firecrackers” campaign is collecting donations again for the needy at the turn of the year ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Saarbrücker Zeitung, December 28, 2011
- ↑ Stop the "Bread Instead of Firecrackers" appeal and replace it with "Bread AND Firecrackers" - hostility to lust and a bad conscience do not help against hunger - can celebration be a sin? ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Action 3rd World Saar , December 2014
