Help for Sibiu/Hermannstadt: Steinmühle Donates Backpacks and 18 Chalkboards

This year, students at Steinmühlen donated a total of 37 school backpacks to children in Marburg’s sister city, Sibiu. Principal Bernd Holly recently announced this result, which actually surpassed last year’s total. As in previous years, he had asked families to donate school backpacks that were no longer needed at the start of the school year to support this good cause. After all, in almost all cases, the backpacks are still in very good condition.

Through this gesture, Steinmühle regularly participates in the initiative of the Children’s and Youth Parliament (KiJuPa), which has been supporting students in need in Sibiu with donations since 2010. Toward the end of the year, the backpacks are transported to Sibiu in collaboration with the organization “Hilfe für Sibiu/Hermannstadt,” and it is not uncommon for them to appear on the Christmas gift table for children who cannot afford backpacks.

Since the Steinmühle no longer uses chalkboards, 18 complete school blackboards were donated to Sibiu as early as this spring with the help of the THW, reports Bernd Holly. So far, more than 200 school backpacks from the Steinmühle have arrived in Sibiu.