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Vienna - The top chef and former Plachuta student Pasha Vahabzadeh will stand behind the stove free of charge in his Ottimo restaurant in Vienna on March 12th. The minimum donation for food in buffet form in the amount of 25 euros will go entirely to the association from the development worker Hannes Urban, who is using it to finance a tree project in South Sudan. Urban will personally greet the guests on site and present his project. Honorary protection is provided by Paul A. Slatin, President of the Austria-Sudanese Society.
The initial spark for the former taxi driver Hannes Urban was the meeting with South African street children during a vacation in 1998. The native Holla founded two years laterbrunner (Lower Austria) the development aid association "WE HELP!", The aim of the association is simple: it wants to help the poorest people in the world. Media reports in the magazines Time and Reader's Digest helped Urban to become internationally known.
The charismatic 12-year-old development worker arrives on March 64th Ottimo restaurant in the 1st district in Vienna, where owner Pasha Vahabzadeh stands behind the stove for the good cause. At the buffet, Mediterranean chicken from the oven with vegetables, vegetable lasagna baked with mozzarella and Viennese-style beef goulash with butter dumplings await. The minimum donation for food in the amount of 25 euros will go entirely to the association of Hannes Urban. Any other expenses in the restaurant are to be paid extra and are not part of the campaign.
Creating a livable environment for returnees
For example, money is currently urgently needed for a tree project in South Sudan. After the hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese who had fled to the Belameling Camp in Uganda before the war are gradually thinking of returning to their former homeland, the deforested trees are to be reforested as a sign of solidarity.
“As it stands at the moment, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHR is gradually starting to register people again and issue identity cards to them. That could indicate a return soon, ”explains Urban. That is why it is important to plant trees so that nature can regenerate and people find a more livable environment.
Honorary protection of Paul A. Slatin
The President of the Austrian-Sudanese Society, Paul A. Slatin, who took over the honorary protection for the event. His ancestor Rudolf Carl Freiherr von Slatin Pascha is still known to many Sudanese today. The officer and research traveler, who was born in Vienna in 1857, was governor in the then Turkish-Egyptian Sudan. In Vienna-Hietzing, an alley is named after him.
Key data
Place: Restaurant Ottimo, 1010 Vienna, Gonzagagasse 14
Date: March 12, 2020
Beginning: 19.00 p.m.
minimum donation: 25 euros (excluding drinks)
Registration: Please confirm by Tuesday, March 10, 2020 to: info@help-wir.org
"WE HELP!" Association for medical and development aidThe association was founded by Mr. Hannes Urban on August 13, 2000 with the aim of helping the poorest people in the world. The primary target group are children, the disabled and the sick. Children should be given access to kindergartens and schools, disabled people should be given decent housing and living space, and the sick should receive medical care and medicine. www.help-wir.org
Donations account: Raiffeisenkasse Retz-Pulkautal Account holder: HELP WIRIBAN: AT88 3271 5000 0120 8685
Main photo: Hannes Urban, chairman and founder of the “HELFEN WIR!” Association, with orphans in a refugee camp © Helfen Wir, Hannes Urban
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