2000 Euros donated to St. Nikolaus Children’s Hospice

€2000 – that was one of three donations from ept’s latest Christmas raffle.

ept apprentices Lea Metty, Maximilian Lory, Anna Eder, Thomas Huber, Lea Holzmann, Isabell Weber, Magdalena Wölfl, and Magdalena Götz organized the Christmas raffle to collect donations for a good cause. The apprentices chose St. Nikolaus Children’s Hospice in Bad Grönenbach in the German district of Unterallgäu, among other candidates, as a recipient of the donation. The institution has been caring for children with incurable, terminal illnesses and their families since March of 2007. The nondenominational children’s hospice provides complete care for up to eight families at once, tending to each family member individually. For 28 days per year, families can benefit from the service in Bad Grönenbach while receiving support from their insurance provider.

70 percent of the children’s hospice is funded by donations, and the remaining 30 percent comes from health insurance funds. In addition to St. Nikolaus Children’s Hospice, the Steingaden middle school received a scroll saw that the students can put to creative use. Both the Buching and Peiting plants combined efforts to make another €2000 donation to the mountain rescue team of Steingaden and Peiting, to be put toward a new mountain rescue station.