The volunteers of the Ukraine Seniors' Café - the Seniors' Advisory Board, the Seniors' Working Group and the St. Heinrich community helper group - receive the "Diogo Pereira Award for People Who Act", which is endowed with 500 euros.
The commitment of the three Rotary clubs was recognized back in April 2023.
Since it was founded on 5 April 2022, the senior citizens' café in the Catholic parish of St. Heinrich has been a meeting place for everyone, an exchange forum, a market for ideas, a generator for initiatives, a starting point and destination for excursions, a center of spirituality for devotions on church holidays, a place of help and encouragement, a stage for singing together, supported by the senior citizens' advisory board as well as the St. Heinrich senior citizens' working group and the St. Heinrich helper group.
A unique institution in the whole of Erlangen with a good 80 regular guests, who are constantly being joined by new ones, and from whose ranks new groups are formed, where people cook together or form language tandems.
An exemplary approach to facilitating integration for refugees on a voluntary basis.