I KNOW WHAT I DO, role model Georg and the Herzenslust team receive the "merk|würdig Prize" 2011
There was great joy: during the annual reception of AIDS-Hilfe NRW on 31 March at the Maxhaus in Düsseldorf's Schulstraße, the state board of the Aidshilfe-NRW yesterday evening the campaign "ICH WEISS WAS ICH TU" (IWWIT) and the "Herzenslust" team in the "innovative" category for their work during last year's Gay Games in Cologne with the "merk|würdig" 2011 volunteer award.
IWWIT campaign manager Matthias Kuske commented: "We are delighted that ICH WEISS WAS ICH TU, Herzenslust and above all the many volunteers have been recognised in this way. Their work during the Gay Games was a complete success and has spread the German idea of prevention all over the world."
Over 100 volunteers from all over NRW were out and about at the Gay Games under the motto "Fairplay" to reach the many thousands of active athletes and national and international guests at the opening and closing ceremonies, the sporting events and evening parties or in the Cologne scene with personal communication campaigns. In personal conversations, they provided information about safer sex and sexual health issues. They also provided information about the Cologne scene and presented themselves - and therefore Cologne and NRW - as warm hosts.
"The volunteers contributed significantly to the success of the event with their commitment. The volunteer work at the Gay Games set new standards in Germany and inspired many people from all over the world who were guests in Cologne," said Arne Kayser, member of the board of AIDS-Hilfe NRW.
In front of around 200 guests and in the presence of NRW Minister of Health Barbara Steffens IWWIT role model Georg Roth was honoured for his 30 years of commitment against HIV and AIDS. The citation states that his commitment to gay and AIDS work and to Triviatas - 1. Schwuler Männerchor Köln e.V., which he co-founded in 1982, has been trend-setting. Georg was also a founding member and board member of the first Cologne gay and lesbian centre SchuLZ e.V., a founding member of Aidshilfe Köln and state chairman of AIDS-Hilfe NRW.
Congratulations Georg, well deserved is well deserved!
(pasch)
