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6/3/2008
press release: ESPRiT Consulting is organizing the 4th Day of Care in association with buntkicktgut |
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Munich, June 3 – The IT and Management consulting firm ESPRiT Consulting is organizing its 4th Day of Care on the theme of integration. On 5 July nearly 200 consultants will be playing soccer in mixed teams together with young people of various national and cultural descents. This will be, first and foremost, an opportunity for people from completely different areas of life to get together. Rüdiger Heid, one of the co-initiators of buntkicktgut, which organizes a street soccer league, comments: “It is exactly in the situations where people are lost for words that soccer is a medium with which creates understanding.”
The goal of this event is to overcome barriers on both sides and to diminish prejudices and fear of contact, as well as to create a common feeling of success and to experience mutual recognition – irrespective of the participants’ situation in life and their cultural background. In addition, ESPRiT is providing the youngsters with real added value for their future careers by holding job application training courses to accompany the main event. This will involve ESPRiT consultants, supported by the ESPRiT HR department, giving the youngsters advice on how to write their curriculum vitae and simulating a job interview with them. The main point of the exercise is to motivate the youngsters and to help them to take initiative in the future. Stephan Marchner, a member of ESPRiT’s executive board and dedicated soccer player, comments: “We are really looking forward to playing some great matches, and we think that this event can provide the foundation for a long-term collaboration between ESPRiT and buntkicktgut, that both sides can benefit from. For us as management and IT consultants, it is important to keep reminding ourselves that there is a world beyond SAP installations, in which social institutions carry out some amazing work. We take social responsibility, and we would like to demonstrate this actively, not just financially.”
Catering for the participants on the day of the tournament will also be provided by a mixed team of consultants and buntkicktgut youngsters, who will be putting together a “multicultural food bazaar”.
To ensure the sustainability of the collaboration, ESPRiT and buntkicktgut are also planning a long-term cooperation. Above all, this will involve ESPRiT supporting the project Internet Reporting, for which interested youngsters follow the progress of buntkicktgut as text, picture or online reporters, and in doing so acquire their first experience of reporting and editing tasks. ESPRiT will become actively involved, with members of the ESPRiT press team offering a “writing workshop” once or twice a year. In addition, the ESPRiT PR representatives will function as mentors for the kids and will help them to edit their reports, without trying to make them perfect, since the main purpose of this educational activity provided by buntkicktgut is to contribute to boosting the youngsters’ self-confidence.
The Day of Care will be financed from a budget of 10,000 euros provided by ESPRiT Consulting.
buntkicktgut
buntkicktgut is a project for intercultural understanding, and in its present form and dimensions, it is a unique example of organized street soccer in Germany. The goal of this initiative is to give young people of various cultural and national descents a worthwhile and healthy leisure activity, and to open up opportunities for social and cultural cooperation. buntkicktgut was set up in 1997 as part of support work provided for children and young people living in Munich accommodation for civil war refugees and asylum seekers. The youngsters come from refugee accommodation, day centers, school social work, leisure facilities, sports clubs or from the street. Today more than 2000 youngsters take part in the various street soccer games in Munich, there are many different leagues, and the organization has been established in other large cities. The guiding principles of buntkicktgut are fairness, tolerance, participation, and freedom from violence. The patron of the initiative is Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn.
More information about buntkicktgut at: http://www.buntkicktgut.de/
ESPRiT Day of Care
ESPRiT Consulting established the Day of Care initiative in 2002. For this initiative, ESPRiT takes on various different social challenges at two-year intervals. The background to this is the high value that the Munich consulting firm places on social commitment. To this end, community projects in the local area should be supported not just financially, but also promoted through the personal commitment and activities of the ESPRiT staff, who have agreed to forsake a works outing for this.
More information about the Day of Care initiative can be found under: http://www.esprit-consulting.com
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