Heute (26.05.2020) hat uns Herr Puschmann vom HEWAG Seniorenstift aus Duisburg-Hamborn mit seinem Besuch zum Ramadan-Fest in unserem Verein überrascht. Wir möchten uns hier an dieser Stelle noch einmal recht herzlich für diese gelungene Überraschung bedanken.
Wir freuen uns, dass wir mit dem Rheinischer Dialog und Bildungsverein e.V.. der Empathie e.V., Essen für Obdachlosen im Petershof kochen können. In diesem Jahr können wir Muslime nicht wie gewohnt das Fastenbrechen im Rahmen vieler Freunde und Verwandte begehen. Und so freuen wir uns, dass wir für die Obdachlosen im Marxloh täglich ein Essen kochen dürfen. Seit Monaten kümmert sich in der Kirche Pater Oliver Potschien um die Bedürftigen und schläft mittlerweile selber dort, um immer vor Ort zu sein. Es ist uns besonders in diesen Ramadan-Tagen ein Bedürfnis, anderen Menschen zu helfen und zu unterstützen.
Es ist für uns selbstverständlich, Verantwortung für die Menschen in unserer Zivilgesellschaft im Rahmen einer Nachbarschaftshilfe zu übernehmen, die auf Grund von Krankheit oder Alter gerade in den jetzigen Tagen Hilfe benötigen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Empathie e.V. und Rheinischer Dialog und Bildungsverein e.V. möchten wir Bedürftigen gerne folgende Hilfen anbieten:
Mit Ihrem unermüdlichen Engagement in den letzten Wochen in der Nachbarschafts- und Corona-Hilfe, vor allem aber bei der Herstellung der MNS Mund-Nasen-Schutz Masken, leisten Sie einen unbezahlbaren und wertvollen Beitrag für das soziale Miteinander, die Solidarität sowie die lebendige Gestaltung und Weiterentwicklung unserer Stadtgesellschaft. Durch Ihre Hilfe haben wir über 2000 MNS-Masken an folgende Einrichtungen und Menschen kostenlos verteilt: Polizei, Feuerwehr, Flüchtlingsheime, DRK, HEWAG-Seniorenstift, Vivawest, Caritas, KinderHerz Zentren Essen, Kant-Berufskolleg, Helius-Krankenhaus, Mädchenheim Villa Sonnenschein, weitere Vereine und Nachbarn.
Dieses Osterfest wird bestimmt niemand vergessen. Hoffen wir, dass nächstes Jahr jeder wieder gemeinsam mit der Familie Ostern feiern kann. Um den Helden des (Corona-)Alltags etwas Freude zu bereiten, haben wir uns mit den Partnervereinen Empathie e.V. und FIB e.V. Duisburg zusammengetan und am 11. April einige Institutionen, wie z.B. die Polizeihauptwache Duisburg Hamborn oder das Krankenhaus, mit Ostergeschenken überrascht. Sie alle tragen dazu bei, dass unsere Gesellschaft funktioniert und verdienen dafür unseren aller größten Respekt und unsere Wertschätzung.

FIB Duisburg e.V. Erklärung zur Barrierefreiheit
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to