Making the world a little better – the Preissler Music team takes action!

We use part of our income and our craftsmanship and expertise in musical instruments to support some very special aid projects around the world. Here is a brief overview of the projects we are currently supporting worldwide. If you would also like to get involved in one of these projects, we would be happy to put you in touch.

We donate used musical instruments to the “Bärliner Help Children Worldwide” association for aid projects.

We support the Bärliner Help Children Worldwide Association and donate our no longer used but still functional musical instruments to children's homes in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands and Kenya.

Bärliner helfen Kindern weltweit e.V. (Berliners Help Children Worldwide) is a non-profit association founded in 2010 with over 200 members, where 100% of all donations in kind and money go towards the planned projects. All costs are covered by the members themselves.

One of the projects is the NARAYAN SEVA children’s and orphanage in the north of Bali, which the association has been supporting since 2009. Currently, 80 children live there with two foster mothers on a 5,000 m² site. Until now, the home has been financed exclusively through our donations. The philosophy of life at this children’s home includes meditation, a vegetarian diet, and yoga. In addition to providing food, medicine, clothing, and funding for some excursions with all the children, many sustainable and meaningful projects have already been implemented, thereby minimizing running costs:

  • We collect used musical instruments for children in children's homes in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands and Africa. Construction of an office, kitchen, several bed blocks and a large multi-purpose hall
  • Purchasing beds
  • A fountain for clean water
  • Renovation and conversion of a dilapidated hospital building
  • Installation of a photovoltaic system for the bed blocks
  • Creation of a 3,000m² vegetable garden including irrigation
  • Financing the studies for 6 young people
  • Construction of a kitchen and a lounge
  • Construction and furnishing of a workshop

After seven years of “helping people to help themselves”, the infrastructure has been expanded to such an extent that the home can cover the running costs alone. This was our goal. Nevertheless, regular contact will of course continue forever.

And it went on straight away

The association’s new projects for children and orphans are in Kenya and the Cape Verde Islands. Further information can be found here: “Bärliners help children worldwide”

Music connects people – help us to help!

We are looking for used musical instruments for orphans and young people in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands and Kenya.

You are welcome to donate used musical instruments to us free of charge, which we will forward directly to the association and thus directly to the children and young people in the aid projects. Beforehand, the instruments are thoroughly inspected by us and, if necessary, serviced and repaired in our workshop. They are then carefully packed and flown to the aid projects in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands, or Kenya, accompanied by association members.

Please contact us if you would like to donate a usable instrument for the children. We would be very grateful.

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Our Preissler Music team has adopted a whale.

Preissler Music has taken over the sponsorship of the sperm whale Scar.

Since 2009, we have sponsored the sperm whale “SCAR.” Scar lives year-round in the area around the Caribbean island of Dominica in a group of eight whales. He was born in 2000 and is very curious and trusting.

The name Scar comes from a large scar on his back, which was probably caused by a ship’s propeller while he was being hunted. We have been following his hopefully very long life with great interest for many years now.

Dolphins are our friends

Dolphins are extremely intelligent animals with self-awareness, personality and empathy, who live in socially complex groups. Scientists, dolphins and ocean conservationists – like the Society for Dolphin Conservation – foster the “dolphin ethic” and the recognition of a special status for dolphins as “non-human persons”. In India, the efforts were successful in 2013. India was the only country in the world to recognize dolphins as non-human individuals. Since then, their rights and habitats must be respected, and all dolphinariums have been banned.

Nevertheless, the ruthless exploitation of the oceans threatens to wipe out one species of dolphin after another. Not even one percent of the habitats that are important for these intelligent marine mammals are designated as protected areas, and at least a quarter of all species are critically endangered.

We support the Society for Dolphin Conservation (GRD e.V.

The Society for Dolphin Conservation is the only environmental organisation in Germany that specifically acts for the protection of living dolphins and whales. The society was founded in 1991 by the three time round-the-world sailor Rollo Gebhard. Together with his partners, the Society for Dolphin Conservation fights against fishing methods resulting in the loss of life for dolphins and dolphin hunting, acts directly fo the protection and support of dolphin families living near the coast and their habitat, works for the extension of sanctuaries and for the enactment of protection laws and is active with rescue networks for stranded dolphins.

We support the Society for Dolphin Conservation in their work and would be pleased if you also got involved as a dolphin protector!

You can find more information about sponsoring and the protection of sea mammals here.

(Picture of Scar: Copyright A&W Steffen – with kind permission of the GRD)