Stadtwerke Gießen is doing a good deed to support the Association of Scouts and Guides in Buseck-Beuern in putting potential burglars on the run in future.
A few years ago, the scouts from the Viking tribe in Buseck-Beuern invested many hours of work in the renovation of the old bathhouse at Michelbach. After around two years of renovation, the building shone in new splendour and has since been used as a meeting room, laboratory and workshop. The scout group even received an architecture award for the concept and realisation in 2011. The members were proud of what they had achieved together.
They were all the more annoyed about a burglary last year, in which thieves stole the photovoltaic system from the roof as well as the associated battery and control system. Georg Erb from the Personnel & Organisation department at Stadtwerke Gießen (SWG) also found out about the theft. The instructor's sons belong to the scout group in Buseck-Beuern. "I asked myself how such incidents could be prevented in future," explains Georg Erb. He thought an alarm system was the best solution. So he suggested that SWG should support the association with the purchase and installation with one of the 75 good deeds in the anniversary year. Sina Volbrecht and Marvin Linker, trainee electronics technicians for industrial engineering, were the main sponsors of this good deed and were supported by Matthias Schreiber and Nils Herzfeld, trainee plant mechanics in plant construction. They assembled the individual parts of the burglar alarm system in the SWG workshop. They recently installed the security system at the scout group's clubhouse. A motion detector and opening detectors on the door and window now trigger a siren and a flashing light if someone tries to gain unauthorised access.
"It's great that we can use the knowledge and experience from our training to help the scouts," explained the four trainees. They recently presented the symbolic donation cheque to the board of the association. Dr Jörg Schudy, Ute Fina, Stefanie Graf-Wiederstein and Antoinette Hofmann thanked Stadtwerke Gießen and the supporters for their personal commitment. "We hope that the plant itself will act as a deterrent. If not, then the alarm that goes off will put burglars to flight," the association's board members are certain.