Rheine. The town twinning association sees itself on a good way with the help for the Ukraine and strengthened by the current references from highest place in its work.
During his visit to Kiev on Tuesday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj called for the rapid establishment of twinning arrangements to help Ukrainian communities through the winter.
“We are glad that we are already a good step further in this regard,” said Reiner Wellmann, chairman of the town twinning association. Although there is no direct partnership between Rheine and a city in the country invaded by Russia, he said. “However, our association has already been able to provide intensive assistance through our network of twin towns Rheine, Trakai, Bernburg, Leiria and Borne. The Lithuanian twin city Trakai had used the direct wires through its partnership with the Ukrainian cities of Ivano-Frankivsk and Luczk to be able to provide help and support on the ground under the motto “friends help friends”. Most recently, the partnership association had provided 15 000 euros for medicines in the hospitals in Ivano-Frankivsk and Luczk. In the meantime, a total of 41,000 euros for medicines and equipment have been made available to the people in Ukraine in this way.
Also in the executive committee of the town twinning association one discussed often whether it is meaningful at present to strive for a direct, thus as suggested by the two presidents bilateral partnership between Rheine and a Ukrainian city. From decades of partnership work, however, the members of the association know how time-consuming and time-consuming it is to establish a town twinning that not only exists on paper, but is filled with life.
Town twinning helps, the two presidents said, “to build and strengthen our common Europe.” “This is precisely our path so far and should be continued,” said Gerd Cosse, media officer of the Rheiner town twinning association. Therefore one sets in Rheine and the twin cities on the proven cohesion of the twin cities.
In order to be able to support also further the humans in the Ukraine, the city partnership association looks forward to further support. Money donations can be deposited on the account IBAN DE 65 4035 0005 0000 0642 53 under the keyword assistance for the Ukraine with the city savings bank Rheine,. A donation receipt will be issued upon request.