Red Cross Lienz: 23,449 hours of heroic use in 2024!

Red Cross Lienz: 23,449 hours of heroic use in 2024!

At the annual general meeting of the Rotkreuz local office Lienz, which took place on March 21st in the Kolpinghaus Lienz, numerous members were honored for their many years of commitment and loyalty. A total of 244 members were awarded in different categories. Fares Anwar received the bronze medal for special commitment, while the silver medal was awarded to Anita König, Reinhard Stotter and Manfred Ortner.

The event was a worthy setting to honor the performance of the volunteers. The year of service were also awarded where the following members were awarded: Jan Gasser, Friedrich Bachlechner, David Krautgasser, Alexander Mitterer, Stephan Oberdorfer, Christian Oberlojer, Monika Schlemmer, Melanie Stöckl and Mario Weis received the badge in Bronze for ten years. Barbara Jeller, Juliane Musenbrock and Sabine Schuh were honored for 15 years of commitment, while Markus Bstieler, Franz Dudek, Franz Gander, Gerald Ortner and Markus Pflanzl were honored for 20 years.

hours and support of the community

The commitment of the Rotkreuz members is also reflected in the numbers: the volunteers made 23,449 hours in the emergency services. Of this, 19,784 hours were applied in rescue and ambulance. The emergency doctor vehicle was in use 1,781 hours and another 700 hours are eliminated between facilities. The replacement of the vehicles also requested 83 hours in 2024, while outpatient services were taken 876 hours.

In addition, the members in the field of health and social services performed a total of 13,135 hours. These activities included services such as "eating on wheels", visiting services, supervised driving services, the "Team Austria Tafel", the shop of the veteran and the dream trips and the "Movement for comfort - movement to old age".

volunteer work in change

This also shows the context of growing engagement in volunteering, as can be seen from the current Volunteer Report. According to the data from the platform volunteer work.de an increase in the engagement for climate, environmental and animal welfare projects, a trend that is partly through the Covid-19-Pandemie Future ”movement was triggered. The interest of counteracting global warming is constantly increasing under volunteers.

The popularity of the travel destinations changed from 2016 to 2021. While Africa is still asked, North America and Oceania have losses due to Corona-related border closures. In contrast, there is a greatly increased interest in European countries. The evaluation of 3,155 volunteer inquiries since the beginning of 2021 has confirmed the trend towards nature conservation projects.

The event of the Red Cross in Lienz illustrates the tireless commitment of the volunteers, despite the challenges that have brought with it in recent years