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

With a part of our income and also with our technical knowledge and skills relating to musical instruments, we support very unusual aid projects around the world. Here we would like to give you a brief overview of the projects we currently support worldwide. If you would also like to get involved in one of the 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. Under the motto “Music connects” we want to enable children to make music.

Bärliner Help Children Worldwide e.V. is a non-profit association with over 200 members that has existed since 2010, and 100% of all donations in kind and money flow into the planned projects. All costs are borne 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. 80 children currently live there with two foster mothers on a 5000m² site. The home has so far been financed exclusively through our donations. The philosophy of life in this children’s home includes meditation, a vegetarian diet and yoga. In addition to support with food, medication, clothing and the financing of some excursions with all the children, many sustainably sensible projects have already been implemented and running costs have been minimized:

  • We collect used musical instruments for children in children's homes in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands and Africa. Donate used musical instruments to us, we would be very happy about it.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. Nevertheless, regular contact will of course continue.

This was our goal.

And it went on straight away. The association’s new projects are in Kenya and the Cape Verde Islands. Further information can be found here: “Bärliners help children worldwide”

Music connects – help us to help!

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

You are welcome to give us used musical instruments free of charge, which we will pass on directly to the association and thus directly to the children and young people in the aid projects. Beforehand, the instruments receive a detailed inspection from us and, if necessary, are repaired and maintained in our workshop. We then pack them well and fly them to the aid projects in Bali, the Cape Verde Islands or Kenya, accompanied by association members.

Please contact us if you like to give us an instrument that is still usable for the children. We are very happy about it.

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Our team have become a whale sponsor.

Preissler Music has taken over the sponsorship of the sperm whale Scar. Join us in supporting the Society to Save Dolphins in their fight to preserve habitats for whales and dolphins worldwide.

Since 2009 we have been a sponsor for the Pot whale “SCAR”. Scar lives for the whole year in the area around the Caribbean island Dominica in a group of eight whales. He was born on 2000 and is very inquisitive and approachable. He was named Scar after the large injury to his back, which was probably caused by a ship’s propeller while hunting him. We will follow Scar with great interest for hopefully a long life.

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.

Nonetheless: The selfish exploitation of the oceans threatens to wipe out one dolphin species after another. Not even one percent of the habitat required by these intelligent ocean mammals are declared as sanctuaries and at least one quarter of all species are threatened by extinction.

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)