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Dialog in the Dark needs your support!

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The dialogue in the dark must be restructured for the future in order to continue to fulfil its important social mission. Please help with our mission

Dialogue in the Dark has been pursuing an important mission since 20 years: promoting empathy and dignified employment for blind people. But Corona is questioning our concept. The Dialogue House reopens in Hamburg on 01.10., but wShow more

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Funding period
30.09.20 - 11.11.20
Realisation
Starting in December 2020
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Minimum amount (Start level): 20,000 €
Our exhibition areas will be adapted in accordance with Corona specifications, infrared cameras will be installed and our blind guides will be trained.
City
Hamburg
Category
Social Business
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What is this project all about?

The Corona Pandemic has hit Dialoghaus Hamburg hard! The previous form of encounter in dialogue is suddenly hardly possible and only on a much too small scale. As a result, we are missing out on a large part of our income. The basis of our economic survival as a social enterprise without public funding has been lost. Thanks to the state rescue package and an approved loan with a repayment period starting in 2022, we were able to avert the threat of insolveShow more

What is the project goal and who is the project for?

With your contribution, we can revise the exhibition Dialogue in the Dark and make urgently needed changes. In this way we can secure jobs for our blind employees and remain attractive for our audience. Especially children and young people receive a verifiable life-changing impulses through Dialogue in the Dark. They recognise the potential that lies even in a severe disability and change their perception in relation to other realities of life. It is thereShow more

Why would you support this project?

We are the leading social enterprise in Germany and have been able to spread our mission worldwide - to 50 countries with 700,000 visitors annually. We have succeeded in keeping an exclusively social mission entrepreneurially alive for over 20 years. Without charitable gifts or state subsidies. Entrepreneurially. We do not see the deficits, but the potentials. In our eyes, blind people are not supplicants, victims or passive recipients of benefits. They haShow more

How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?

Our concrete plans for design and conversion are implemented. We need eight weeks and € 94,000 for this. This gives us a stable basis for continuing to pursue our mission: The jobs for our blind and visually impaired colleagues will be preserved and at least 70,000 people a year will experience the importance of empathy and how inclusion can be lived. We are changing society. You help us to do so.

Who are the people behind the project?

Dialogue in the Dark is the team of Dialoghaus gGmbH with its founder and managing director Andreas Heinecke, successful social entrepreneur and creator of Dialogue in the Dark, who has received several awards for his social commitment, including the German Founders' Prize.

We are 100% driven by our mission: We want to create more consciousness for the social contribution made by disabled, disadvantaged and elderly people. We want to promote the economic sShow more