Volksverein Mönchengladbach
The “Volksverein Mönchengladbach” non-profit society against unemployment is named after the Volksverein for Catholic Germany (1890–1933), in which Christians fought for social reform. His home was Mönchengladbach , the "Lower Rhine Manchester".
Today's Volksverein Mönchengladbach was founded in 1983 in the legal form of a gGmbH and fights for the rights of unemployed people and their participation in life in society. In the opinion of the association, unemployment hits the less qualified, the health impaired and the elderly particularly hard.
In the Mönchengladbach Volksverein, the long-term unemployed can find "education, employment and advice". The aim of the association is to take sides for the unemployed and to provide information about the individual and social consequences of unemployment. The aim is to set an example for the renewal of society and the church in favor of the disadvantaged. The founding partners were the well-known Mönchengladbach priest Edmund Erlemann , the Wohlfahrt association and the storyteller Anka Franken. Erlemann and Franken transferred their shares in 2012 to the Förderverein Stiftung Volksverein Mönchengladbach.
In 2010, 170 long-term unemployed men and women were employed by the Mönchengladbach Volksverein. Due to reduced grants, a deficit of more than 100,000 euros was generated in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ partner of the people's association ; Retrieved October 27, 2012
- ↑ Debt: Rethinking the Volksverein ; Tool online; Retrieved October 27, 2012