500 lids for living :: SEC News

With bottle caps, you can do something against the spread of polio. Photo: nh

Treysa. The WERKRAUM in Treysa is a new collection point of action "cover it"! Behind it is polio. This infection, also known as polio infection, is highly contagious and particularly affects infants, but also adults. The virus causes permanent and paralyzing paralysis, the disease can be fatal.

Cover it – simple and ingenious

Polio is incurable – but vaccination can provide lifetime protection against polio. "Collect the lids and help fight polio," said Daniel Helwig, coordinator of EV volunteers. Ziegenhain church district.

The idea is as ingenious as it is simple: save lives with plastic. Instead of returning your returnable bottles completely or disposing of them, remove the covers and return them to one of the many collection points of the "Deckel drauf e.V." badociation. In addition to the diaconia shop, it is the collection point on the Steinweg in Ziegenhain, as well as on the WERKRAUM at Steingbade 7 in Schwalmstadt-Treysa. Lids can be delivered during opening hours (Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10h to 12h30 from 14h to 17h30).

500 lids for a living

The collected plastic parts are stored and sold in a timely manner on "e.V. cover" to the waste management companies. The product saves lives: already 500 blankets allow 1 life without polio!

Since 2014, the club already exists. Thanks to the participation of many individuals, organizations and tradespeople, more than 150,000 oral polio vaccines have been funded from the coverages collected. "Just do a lot of good … Participate!" Daniel Helwig Cry.

More details under www.deckel-gegen-polio.de/.

(Red)