1170 employees work at the Red Cross in the Braunau district – 1022 of them volunteers who performed 190,000 hours free of charge in the previous year. 509 volunteers alone are involved in the emergency services. In the previous year, 1.2 million kilometers came together to master 34,342 missions in the emergency services in the best possible way. Statistically, every volunteer 295 hours a year is active. “We are grateful that there are always people who agree to join the emergency services,” says district office manager and district captain Gerald Kronberger. “From September there will be a new training system that is better dealing with working interested parties for the emergency services.”
The Rotkreuz market in Mattighofen is another important offer in which goods are submitted to the needy at particularly low prices. “The money that can be saved here remains in other areas of life, such as electricity and rent,” says district manager Herbert Markler. In order to be entitled to buy, proof of income must be presented to the home community, which then issues a card.
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Image: (c) Hans Luttinger
Source: Nachrichten
