Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and his wife Doris Schmidauer welcomed star singer groups with donuts and sausage rolls at Vienna’s Hofburg on Saturday.
Van der Bellen was full of praise for the star singer campaign. The Federal President especially emphasized that the children and young people involved in the campaign reached all people – “regardless of their faith, origin, social status and whether they have lived in Austria for a long or short time.”
He is grateful to them for this – but also to the donors for their “important support for a better world”.
Since 1954, approximately 520 million euros have been ‘earned’
As Van der Bellen also indicated, the money from the house collection during the star singing goes to aid projects on other continents. This means that aid is provided elsewhere, such as in the Philippines, Guatemala or Tanzania, together with local initiatives.
Since the first star singer campaign in 1954, a total of 520 million euros in aid money has been raised.
Sayings from star singers, donuts and sausage rolls
Each group presented a song, there were also statements by star singers, photos of the kings with the head of state and the annual blessing “20+CMB+24” written on the door. Van der Bellen presented his guests with a donation for the aid projects advertised this year and then invited all attendees to enjoy donuts and sausage rolls.
Delegations from Austria and South Tyrol
In the presidential chancellery were represented delegations of star singers from the parish of Neustift in Tyrol, from St. Martin im Sulmtal in Styria, from the parish of Melk, which belongs to the diocese of St. Pölten, from Ottensheim in Upper Austria, from Dornbirn -Hatlerdorf in Vorarlberg, and from the parishes in Burgenland Jennersdorf and Rudersdorf, from the Strasshof parish in the Archdiocese of Vienna, from St. Stefan in Gailtal (Carinthia) and also from Sand in Taufers, which belongs to the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen.
Also visit Sobotka, Nehammer and Kogler
After visits to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Ministers Klaudia Tanner and Gerhard Karner and President of the National Council Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) and now to the Hofburg, star singer groups will also visit other well-known personalities from politics, church and society in the coming days.
Appointments are planned, among others, with Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens), as well as with government members Norbert Totschnig, Karoline Edtstadler, Martin Kocher (all ÖVP) and Leonore Gewessler (Greens), and with the second chairman of the National Council, Doris Bures (SPÖ), and the various club presidents in the National Council.
Source: Krone
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