We are Dag­mar & Andreas, who have been enthu­si­as­tic 5Rhythms dancers our­selves for a long time. Our aim is to bring peo­ple togeth­er in expe­ri­ence, to sup­port them on their path of devel­op­ment and to cre­ate a suit­able set­ting for this. The loca­tion in Rup­pertshofen is ide­al for this. Short dis­tances, con­cen­tra­tion on the essen­tials, a guest house and a cater­ing team that pro­vides us with great food.

At the same time, we want to gen­er­ate dona­tions for chil­dren who are depen­dent on our sup­port.
Whether by chance or coin­ci­dence, we came across the Haus der Hoff­nung Nepal e.V. and both found this project wor­thy of sup­port. In recent years, we have already been able to donate over €22,000 to the orga­ni­za­tion for the orphans in Kath­man­du.
A large part of the pro­ceeds from this event, as well as the cash dona­tions that are giv­en direct­ly to those respon­si­ble for the orga­ni­za­tion at check-in, ensure that the now more than 180 chil­dren sup­port­ed by this project have a chance of edu­ca­tion, a decent life and hope of being able to feed them­selves and their own fam­i­lies one day.

Due to the war rag­ing in Ukraine and the many oth­er crises in the world, we con­sid­ered whether we should redi­rect our aid, but decid­ed to stick with the tried and test­ed con­nec­tions — safe in the knowl­edge that the mon­ey is used care­ful­ly and reach­es its des­ti­na­tion direct­ly. The ini­tia­tor Ellen Diet­rich and for­mer chil­dren from the project can per­son­al­ly con­firm this. We also invite them every year to report to us on cur­rent devel­op­ments on the ground.

Even if the ini­tia­tive comes from the two of us. An event like this can­not be orga­nized by just the two of us. We are there­fore reliant on help. On the one hand, there is a small team that has been our friends for years and always pro­vides us with active sup­port.
Reg­is­tered helpers who vol­un­teer to sup­port us on site dur­ing the days and also par­tic­i­pants who con­tribute to cer­tain activ­i­ties for the com­mu­ni­ty. Be it clear­ing up, wash­ing up, sweep­ing the hall, smok­ing or oth­er small, man­age­able tasks. For­tu­nate­ly, every year there are enough helpers from the cir­cle of par­tic­i­pants who sign up for the tasks on our list and do them reli­ably for the com­mu­ni­ty. From our point of view, this plays a major role in shap­ing the spir­it of this event.

more infor­ma­tion about the aid project Haus der Hoff­nung Nepal e.V.