News Releases Commerz Real supports Diakonie Düsseldorf in Flingern

Around 70 Commerz Real employees rolled up their sleeves yesterday to support the Diakonie facilities in the Düsseldorf-Flingern district. As part of this year’s Social Day of the company, the volunteers contributed to the Diakonie’s goal of improving living conditions in the district. For this purpose, gardening work took place in the “Garden of the Senses” district garden, donated clothes were sorted, weeds were cut down on areas of the “Essbare Stadt” project and a raised bed was built. The outside area of the evangelical Langerstraße daycare centre was cleaned, six apartments of refugee families and mentally ill people were repainted and an inner courtyard with a construction car of the Icklack initiative (housing for homeless women) was decorated. “The diligent support has helped us to complete many important tasks for which time and manpower are otherwise simply scarce,” says Michael Schmidt, Board Member of Diakonie Düsseldorf. In 2008, Diakonie Düsseldorf built and moved its campus in Flingern. This consists not only of the administration, but also of many different facilities that serve as a point of contact in the district. In addition to a nursing home and retirement home, there is a specialist outpatient clinic for addicts and a district store. The district store has been in existence since 1982 and offers various family counselling and family education services.

"With our regular Social Days, we want to make a small but tangible contribution to sustainable neighbourhood development and to improving the living situation at our main locations in Düsseldorf and Wiesbaden. I am proud that our colleagues showed such commitment and were able to achieve all day’s goals," says Henning Koch, Chairman of the Management Board of Commerz Real.