Colombian Golfers support Limmat Foundation Projects
In Colombia, winter is also Esmeralda Charity Cup season. Two tournaments were played in the middle of February. This is the 14th time men and women golfers gathered to compete in Cartagena. Due to the effects of El Niño, the ground was extremely dry. The photo shows the three oldest golfers in the competition. The Limmat Foundation’s long-standing partner Actuar Pro Bolivar organized this annual event. The proceeds of the competition --CHF 9,000--will benefit this foundation. The money will fund the care center for children “Centro Madres Comunitarias.” The second Esmeralda Charity Cup tournament was played near Bogotá, at the exclusive golf resort Payandé in Villeta (Cundinamarca). 92 golfers gathered in the heat to support vocational training for teenage mothers, a project of the Fundacion Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar that is supported by the Limmat Foundation. The tournament raised CHF 15,500 for this goal.
By raising this money, the golfers one the one hand made a concrete contribution to the fight against poverty in their homeland. Beyond this, the Esmeralda Charity Cup also strengthens the solidarity and the sense of responsibility of the Colombian people.
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Thu, 25.02.2010
Final and Guest Tournament of the XIV. Esmeralda Charity Cup
In its 14th year, the Esmeralde Charity Cup has never been so appreciated. A record number of players participated in the final tournaments. Perfect sunshine and a very pleasant temperature contributed to wonderful support for the two selected projects of the Limmat endowment for Street Children in Colombia.
As in previous years, there were two parallel tournaments: 40 qualified finalists played “Four Ball Better Ball“; 75 guests played in the Single Stableford point system tournament.
With 45 net points, Urs and Philippe Haussener won first prize. These winners receive a trip to Columbia to visit representative projects of the Limmat Foundation and the right to participate in a Charity Golf tournament in Cartagena.
Our generous Sponsors also richly rewarded other rankings and special prize categories (from both tournaments).
Rank List of the 2009 FinalRank List of the 2009 Guest Tournament
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Fri, 02.10.2009
The Karl-Lukas-Honegger-Platz in Herrliberg is officially dedicated
The painter and sculptor Karl Lukas Honegger (1902-2003) was posthumously honored by having a square in his hometown of Herrlibreg named after him. The Karl-Lukas-Honegger Square was officially dedicated on Thursday, 18th of September, 2008.
Rolf Jenny, the mayor of Herrliberg, and Paul von Arx, president of the Friends’ Association Karl Lukas Honegger, paid tribute to the artist, whose memory and wide-ranging work are being held in trust as a subfoundation of the Limmat. Around 80 guests, including former member of the Swiss federal council and Herrliberg resident Christoph Blocher, attended the unveiling of the sign “Karl-Lukas-Honegger-Platz” and the sculpture “Girl picking flowers” which stands close by. A class of the secondary school in Rapperswil provided music for the ceremony.
The area around the Kittenmühle (where Honegger founded his studio in 1971) above Herrliberg is a popular destination for strollers. Many of them walked along the gardens of the ergonomic building in those times and admired the sculptures of the residence of painter and sculptor Karl Lukas Honegger.
This location is now officially dedicated to the Zurich artist. On the first floor of the nearby Restaurant Kittenmühle - is a room which had already been given the name “Honegger”.
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Thu, 18.09.2008
BENEFIT CONCERT GIVEN BY BOSCONIA YOUTH ORCHESTRACHF 62,000 (USD 48’000) for the Street Children
The official results of the Bosconia Orchestra’s tour through Switzerland are in: over CHF 62,000 (USD 48’000)were netted for the vocational education of former street children in Colombia. A most satisfactory outcome!
The 47 street children – 35 musicians and 12 dancers – and their 8 chaperones arrived in Europe for their tour in the early fall of 2005. Trip expenses were shared by Belgium, Spain and Switzerland. The great success of this event is due in part to the generosity of the tour sponsors, who underwrote the expenses of the week of performances in Switzerland. Because of them, we were able to direct 100% of all donations and proceeds from ticket sales to the projects in Colombia.
Proceeds from the tour will make possible a new vocational education center in Buenaventura (on the Pacific coast of Colombia), where the problem of street children has become particularly acute in the past few years. The Pelicanos Center will take in 90 former street children, and will provide vocational training for a further 300 at-risk youth.
At the invitation of the Limmat Foundation, 47 former street children from Colombia performed for an audience of 400 in the Zurich Volkshaus on September 26, 2005. Father Javier De Nicolo -- whose name is synonomous with the effectiveness of working with street children -– emphasized in his greeting the crucial importance of giving affection to these children. This is what encourages them to eventually leave the street and freely venture into a suitable training center.
The 35 young musicians played ambitious pieces by Rossini and von Suppé with great élan. In the second half of the program, a dozen children accompanied Caribbean folkloric songs with a charming, tropically colored dance. The youths from Colombia proved to the enchanted Swiss audience that their education program is a resounding success.
In the name of the Zurich government, the city council president, Dorothée Fierz, gave her heartfelt speech to the young musicians and their escorts in Spanish. “If one knows,” she said, “that these children lived on the street for years under inhumane and degrading conditions, one is overwhelmed to see what is possible after a few years of intense care and affection. Understanding and attention, which they never experienced in their early childhood, prove what amazing feats people are capable of.” Ms Fierz encouraged everyone present to continue in their support of these children, be it as concertgoer, sponsor, helper or donor, in the knowledge that all contributions go entirely towards the vocational training of these children.
Photo of the young dancers
Zurich’s legislators dance the salsa with former street children
A pleasant surprise awaited the Zurich cantonal councillors on Monday, September 26, 2005, during a break in their session. The Bosconia Youth Orchestra played an invigorating impromptu concert for them on the Gemüsebrücke. As happened the day before, the music proved irresistible: the tropical rhythms and the urging of the children moved the legislators, visibly amused, to shake a leg themselves. Even the councillors Fierz and Aeppli proved themselves in fine dancing form.
City Council President Fierz dancing the salsa with 11-year-old Nico from Colombia
The other performances in Switzerland were also very successful:
-Tuesday, September 27the at 18:30 in the Kursaal in Berne
-Wednesday, September 28th at 18:30 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva
-Thursday, September 29th at 18:30 in the Gemeindesaal in Vandoeuvres
The concert program included works by Brahms, Rossini and von Suppé as well as cumbia, salsa and folkloric music of the Caribbean.
“I wish these young musicians much success and congratulate the Limmat Foundation on its outstanding work for the benefit of needy children.” Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey.
