Service to others: 150 years of the St.Johannes Disabled Work Foundation, Marxheim-Schweinspoint - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2010 - 90 Euro Cent

Since its founding in 1860, the Foundation for the Disabled Work of St. John in Marxheim-Schweinspoint near Augsburg has become a versatile institution for the promotion and care of adults with mental or psychological disabilities. The Catholic Foundation offers a wide range of sheltered to open help and services. Its goal is to tailor all necessary assistance individually to people with disabilities. This applies both to the form of housing and to the area of ​​work and employment. Work opportunities in the workshops for people with disabilities in Marxheim and Donauwörth, open advisory and service offers as well as outpatient assisted forms of living are further important pillars of the care offer. A care facility for seniors and a training center for social professions in Neuburg with specialist schools for health education and care, nursing care and the training center for Catholic village helpers complete the services offered by the foundation. The Handicapped Work is one of the most important service providers for adult people with disabilities in the region of Swabia and the neighboring Upper Bavaria. In just 150 years, the original "Institute for the Incurable Male", which began with four members of the order and five "fosterlings", became a modern institution with around 600 employees - a foundation founded on a living Christian tradition social goals such as integration and self-determination of persons with disabilities.