Herne’s 2024 Crowdfunding Raises €139K for Community Causes on GoFundMe

The willingness to donate in Herne was high in 2024: At least that is what the company has published in a summary of the GoFundMe platform. On this page, campaigns can be set up to collect earmarked funds within a certain period of time. If the desired amount is not raised, the donations, which can be made anonymously or with a name, are returned to the users.

GoFundMe announced in response to a request from halloherne, there were a total of 38 different crowdfunding campaigns in Herne last year. A total volume of 139,000 euros was achieved. The three top categories were local projects, emergencies and animals, in the latter case, for example, veterinary costs.

Renovation planned for a mosque in Herne

Four actions stood out in particular. For example, the German-Arab Cultural Association is collecting money to build a mosque, called a Masjid in Arabic. 30,000 euros are needed to offer almost daily lessons in reading and comprehension in a 260 square meter space, the association writes.

The money will be used to cover the costs of rent, renovation, toilet, kitchen and carpet, among other things. As of Thursday (January 9th, 2025), just over 11,000 euros had been raised through 364 donations.

Cancer patient Noah wants to travel after his recovery

In second place is an already deactivated campaign. Funds are being collected for Noah, four years old and suffering from cancer since 2023, so that he can travel to different countries after chemotherapy. Unfortunately, he has a medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.

After his operation, complications arose; among other things, he could no longer speak, walk or swallow. But together with his parents and his sister, he fought his way back and relearned several functions.

His father is also seriously ill, waiting for a donor organ and also suffered a heart attack. 6,790 euros were raised for Noah, but further donations are currently not possible due to the deactivated campaign.

Palliative garden and house damaged after storm in Herne

halloherne had already reported on the third fundraising campaign in July 2024. Ben Vogel, chairman of the Palliative Care Advice Basis association, had to discover after a storm how Germany’s first palliative garden and the small house belonging to it on the Holper Heide had been damaged.

A lot of renovation work is therefore pending, and a report estimates the cost at 13,000 euros. Almost half of the money has already been raised, around 6,800 euros . Even though the donation target has not yet been reached, Vogel and his club colleagues began the interior work in August.

In the fourth case, things get animalistic: puppy Ayaz, owned by owner Layla Aygün, is fighting for his leg. After Aygün rescued him from terrible conditions, she noticed that he was limping again and again. It turns out that the young dog has already suffered several broken bones, some of which have already healed, but he has a comminuted fracture on his front left, which makes it almost impossible for him to walk.

Expensive surgery for puppy Ayaz

After the diagnosis, a doctor refers the patient to a specialist for this complicated operation. Cost: 4,000 euros . Money that the nursing trainee in her third year of training does not have. The campaign has now collected almost 6,900 euros, with a target amount of 7,300 euros. In October, Ayaz was operated on in a veterinary clinic.

For those responsible for “GoFundMe,” these examples are encouraging. “The article about the palliative garden shows how important such actions are for the community and how committed the local people in Herne are,” said employee Aisling Ehrismann.

A total of 115 million euros were donated in Germany in 2024, of which 65 million euros went to private individuals and non-profit organizations. In Germany, Frankfurt am Main is the most generous city for the second year in a row. Hamburg secured the title of the most generous federal state. In North Rhine-Westphalia, around 21 million euros were raised in around 5,400 campaigns, resulting from over 492,000 individual donations.

Two donations per second throughout Germany

The company GoFundMe records an average of two donations per second across Germany. “The desire to help one another transcends borders, languages ​​and cultures. Our global community has shown time and again that help and compassion lie at the core of our humanity,” said Tim Cadogan, CEO of GoFundMe.

He continued: “In 2024, millions of people stepped up to support one another – whether by starting fundraisers, giving to individuals or nonprofits, or sharing causes they care about. Even when they couldn’t give financially, they found ways to make a difference and provided extraordinary support, sharing more than 55 million fundraisers on social media.”

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