Humanitarian aid
In cooperation with the Development Helps Association (Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft), Deutsche Bahn Foundation supports people in acute humanitarian emergencies.
- Deutsche Bahn Foundation provided disaster relief after a powerful earthquake in Haiti. The funded project included supplying water to 15,000 people, distributing 860 hygiene kits and providing hygiene education to prevent cholera and transmissible diseases.
- In the Indian Nai Disha aid project, preventive and educational work for truck drivers is being done with the support of DB Schenker employees to avoid the spread of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
- The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the situation for street children worldwide. Deutsche Bahn Foundation has supported two homeless children’s projects in Zimbabwe together with Terre des hommes and in India together with MISEREOR.