The name of Michael Schwekendiek is a well-known one in Belarus. Thanked to his initiative during a long period of time charitable projects are fulfilled in Belarus.
Michael Schwekendiek is the main manager of
Diakoniekrankenhaus Rotenburg (Wuemme), Germany. After the Chernobyl accident many Belarusian physicians have improved their skills there. A great
deal of medical equipment was given as a donation for Belarusian clinics and especially for the Clinic "Aksakovschina" (Minsk reg.).
In March Michael Schwekendiek invited a group of Belarusian students to Diakoniekrankenhaus. These students work as teachers-volunteers
at Clinic
"Aksakovschina".
The program of volunteers sojourn in Rotenburg (Wuemme) was thoroughly planned by the hosts. Michael Schwekendiek reckoned in, that his guests
are students (some of them are also future teachers) and young people as well as volunteers.
The volunteers were proposed to visit different types of schools. Most of all they liked a school theatre performance. The play was written and
performed by the schoolchildren. The volunteers visited the Clinic, sheltered housing for invalids, and got acquainted with experience of rehabilitation of people with
limited abilities. The hosts organized for the students an excursion to a famous city Celle. Besides the volunteers visited The Bremen Museum, saw a
musical at The Hamburg Musical Theatre.
Hospitality of Michael Schwekendiek, Nicole Thiesen, Jens Schwartzkopff made a sojourn of the volunteers in
Germany very interesting and useful.
Preparations for a charity exhibition of Belarusian painters (Victor Danilov, Peter Parshin and others) are continuing. The aim of this exhibition is rendering of financial help for the projects, which are carried through the Belarusian Belarusian Committee Children of Chernobyl.
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